Excel 2007 on WinXP

I need to evaluate the contents of Column F.
If the cell contaions the word "Lead", place Lead in column G
If the cell contains the word "Manager". place Manager in column G
If the cell contains the word "Supervisor", place Super in column G

I used the formula below.
=IF(FIND("Lead", F3)0, "Lead", IF(FIND("Manager", F3)0, "manager",
IF(FIND("Supervisor", F3)0, "Super", "standard")))

Only those rows that contain "Lead: somewhere in in column F record Lead in
column G, all others report VALUE#. Can someone point me toward my error. It
is important for you to know that cells in column F wil have more than just
the word Lead, Manager or Supervisor; these words may be at beginning, in
middle or at the end. They will always be separate words.

Thanks for any suggestions

Find is case sensitive. That could be causing you a problem. Have you tried
Search which is virtually identical but is not case sensitive?
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"JR Hester" wrote:

Excel 2007 on WinXP

I need to evaluate the contents of Column F.
If the cell contaions the word "Lead", place Lead in column G
If the cell contains the word "Manager". place Manager in column G
If the cell contains the word "Supervisor", place Super in column G

I used the formula below.
=IF(FIND("Lead", F3)0, "Lead", IF(FIND("Manager", F3)0, "manager",
IF(FIND("Supervisor", F3)0, "Super", "standard")))

Only those rows that contain "Lead: somewhere in in column F record Lead in
column G, all others report VALUE#. Can someone point me toward my error. It
is important for you to know that cells in column F wil have more than just
the word Lead, Manager or Supervisor; these words may be at beginning, in
middle or at the end. They will always be separate words.

Thanks for any suggestions

One way...

=IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*lead*"),"Lead",IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*ma nager*"),"Manager",IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*supervisor*")," Super","Standard")))

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JR Hester" wrote in message
...
Excel 2007 on WinXP

I need to evaluate the contents of Column F.
If the cell contaions the word "Lead", place Lead in column G
If the cell contains the word "Manager". place Manager in column G
If the cell contains the word "Supervisor", place Super in column G

I used the formula below.
=IF(FIND("Lead", F3)0, "Lead", IF(FIND("Manager", F3)0, "manager",
IF(FIND("Supervisor", F3)0, "Super", "standard")))

Only those rows that contain "Lead: somewhere in in column F record Lead
in
column G, all others report VALUE#. Can someone point me toward my error.
It
is important for you to know that cells in column F wil have more than
just
the word Lead, Manager or Supervisor; these words may be at beginning, in
middle or at the end. They will always be separate words.

Thanks for any suggestions

Thanks to both of you,

That appears to be a very interesting use of COUNTIF, I would never have
thought of using that as opposed to FIND. Thanks again for the solution; it
saved teh day for me.

"T. Valko" wrote:

One way...

=IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*lead*"),"Lead",IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*ma nager*"),"Manager",IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*supervisor*")," Super","Standard")))

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JR Hester" wrote in message
...
Excel 2007 on WinXP

I need to evaluate the contents of Column F.
If the cell contaions the word "Lead", place Lead in column G
If the cell contains the word "Manager". place Manager in column G
If the cell contains the word "Supervisor", place Super in column G

I used the formula below.
=IF(FIND("Lead", F3)0, "Lead", IF(FIND("Manager", F3)0, "manager",
IF(FIND("Supervisor", F3)0, "Super", "standard")))

Only those rows that contain "Lead: somewhere in in column F record Lead
in
column G, all others report VALUE#. Can someone point me toward my error.
It
is important for you to know that cells in column F wil have more than
just
the word Lead, Manager or Supervisor; these words may be at beginning, in
middle or at the end. They will always be separate words.

Thanks for any suggestions


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You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback!

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JR Hester" wrote in message
...
Thanks to both of you,

That appears to be a very interesting use of COUNTIF, I would never have
thought of using that as opposed to FIND. Thanks again for the solution;
it
saved teh day for me.

"T. Valko" wrote:

One way...

=IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*lead*"),"Lead",IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*ma nager*"),"Manager",IF(COUNTIF(F3,"*supervisor*")," Super","Standard")))

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JR Hester" wrote in message
...
Excel 2007 on WinXP

I need to evaluate the contents of Column F.
If the cell contaions the word "Lead", place Lead in column G
If the cell contains the word "Manager". place Manager in column G
If the cell contains the word "Supervisor", place Super in column G

I used the formula below.
=IF(FIND("Lead", F3)0, "Lead", IF(FIND("Manager", F3)0, "manager",
IF(FIND("Supervisor", F3)0, "Super", "standard")))

Only those rows that contain "Lead: somewhere in in column F record
Lead
in
column G, all others report VALUE#. Can someone point me toward my
error.
It
is important for you to know that cells in column F wil have more than
just
the word Lead, Manager or Supervisor; these words may be at beginning,
in
middle or at the end. They will always be separate words.

Thanks for any suggestions


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