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Ehab Ali
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Hi,

 

Please can you me as I have million names and I want to know it is Contain "?" or not.

Please check attached sample.

 

Thanks;

Ehab Ali

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In cell C2 enter =ISNUMBER(FIND("?",A2))

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Thank you very much.

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Hi Sunny,

I see it works, but can't figure out why it works? What does the 'isnumber' while nothing is a number??

Maybe you can explain in normal English? Thanks in advance!

Frans

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Hello,

What FIND function gives you is the character position number if it finds what is looked for, else a #VALUE! error. By wrapping this with the ISNUMBER function you then get a TRUE or FALSE value.

https://support.office.com/en-.....d89b0a0628

https://support.office.com/en-.....d869135665

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Hi Frans

Anders had described exactly what I was doing. Thanks Anders.

Sunny

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Hello,

I also found this blog article that covers this topic.

https://www.myonlinetraininghu.....-will-find

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Thanks boys! Nice to keep on learning here!

Frans

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