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Excel 2007 In Cell Find function

I am using the find function to split cell strings into pieces. It works fine (mostly), unless the find fails in which case I get #NAME? for the value.

Really would I am trying to do is something like this:
=if(Find("x", G1, 1), "True Value", "False Value")

This sometimes gives the #NAME? value and so I refined the function to see where it is exploding and it is the FIND function, when it fails to find.

Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Saurabh Singh Teotia

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Howard Bash

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Aren't these two suggestions the same? The only difference I see is that the first one's functions are all lower case.

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Saurabh Singh Teotia

Yes there are two same suggestions, I beat barry to it ;-)

barry houdini

I posted my suggestion before I saw that Saurabh had posted the same thing.....given that both are the same perhaps that's an indication that it's the best way to do it......if you want somrthing a little different try this
=IF(COUNT(Find("x",G1)),"True Value", "False Value")
No better, just different
regards, barry

Howard Bash

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=IF(COUNT(Find("x",G1)),"True Value", "False Value")

So, in this expression, Find("x", G1)) will not cause an error if no "x" found?

I will be at it in morning and post my finding.

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