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I am trying to separate city, state, zip from 1 cell to 3 by using the IF
function. But I cannot get the IF function to recognize text values, only
numeric. I have already changed the cells format to text, but to no avail.
Any suggestions? Can it be done in excel?
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Frank Kabel
 
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Hi
not really sure what you're trying to do but have a look at 'Data - Text to
columns' for this.
Also you may post:
- an example
- your tried formulas

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Frank Kabel
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BarnyardJoe wrote:
I am trying to separate city, state, zip from 1 cell to 3 by using
the IF function. But I cannot get the IF function to recognize text
values, only numeric. I have already changed the cells format to
text, but to no avail. Any suggestions? Can it be done in excel?



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Put the text values in Quotes
ex
IF(A1="TEST STRING","TRUE","FALSE")

"BarnyardJoe" wrote:

I am trying to separate city, state, zip from 1 cell to 3 by using the IF
function. But I cannot get the IF function to recognize text values, only
numeric. I have already changed the cells format to text, but to no avail.
Any suggestions? Can it be done in excel?

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