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How to handle if cell contains a word then put a text in another cell?

Here is a list of product ID, and now I want to find if the cell contains a string “KTE”, and then put the text “TRUE” into its adjacent cell as below screenshot shown. Have you any quick ways to solve it? In this article, I am talking about the tricks on finding if a cell contains a word and then putting a text into the adjacent cell.

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If a cell contains a word then another cell equals a specific text

Here is a simple formula that can help you to quickly check if a cell contains a word, and then put a text in its next cell.

Select the cell you want to put the text, and type this formula =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("KTE",A2)),"True","") and then drag auto fill handle down to the cells you want to apply this formula. See screenshot:

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In the formula, A2 is the cell you want to check if contains a specific word, and KTE is the word you want to check, True is the text you want to display in another cell. You can change these references as you need.

If a cell contains a word then select or highlight

If you want to check if a cell contains a specific word and then select or highlight it, you can apply the Select Specific Cells feature of Kutools for Excel, which can quickly handle this job.

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1. Select the range you want to check if the cell contains a specific word, and click Kutools > Select > Select Specific Cells. See screenshot:

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2. Then in the popping dialog, check Cell option, and select Contains from the first drop down list, then type the word you want to check into the next textbox. See screenshot:
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3. Click Ok, a dialog pops out to remind you how may cells contains the word you want to find, and click OK to close the dialog. See screenshot:
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4. Then the cells containing the specified word have been selected, if you want to highlight them, go to Home > Fill Color to choose one fill color to outstanding them.
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Tip. If you want to have a free trial of the Select Specific Cells function, please go to free download Kutools for Excel first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

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    Alex · 1 years ago
    If column has text, alpha-numeric & numeric values, using the convert tool does not apply the text values to numeric. Makes sense. Though, how could you configure a IF Vlookup to compensate if a cell has text?
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      Sunny · 1 years ago
      Sorry, which convert tool you mean? The formula can work correctly whatever the column contains alpha, alpha-numeric or numeric string.
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    Sean · 1 years ago
    Hello,

    Question. If I need this formula to apply to two different returns. For example, if a cell contains the word "Senior", another cell would return "32" and if the cell contains "Associate" then the other cell would return 16.
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      Sam Gunderson · 2 months ago
      Here's the formula. Assume there's a list of titles starting in cell A2:

      Senior Engineer
      Associate Engineer
      Senior Engineer
      Senior Engineer
      Vice President
      Associate Engineer
      Associate Engineer
      Senior Vice Presdent

      In cell B2 (or whatever cell you wish to populate with the results), write:

      =IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("Senior",A2)),"32",IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("Associate",A2)),"16"))

      You could check for additional values by adding additional nested IF statements.
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      Sunny · 1 years ago
      Sorry I cannot figore out the correct formula to solve your problem, you can go to our forum https://www.extendoffice.com/forum.html to place your question, maybe someone can help you.
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    Bryanna · 2 years ago
    Thanks for this. Can this code be edited so that instead of placing specific text beside the source text, it can be formatted to place the text in a different cell?
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      Helen · 1 years ago
      i know what u mean. i need this function to.
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        Sunny · 1 years ago
        Do you mean to extract the text in different cell while the cell contains the specifict text as below screenshot shown?
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      Sunny · 2 years ago
      Sorry, I do not realy understand your question. Could you give me more detail description?
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    Kas · 2 years ago
    How would you write the formula is you have text-text-text and you want to pull the final text? AB-GUFJ-CD if you want to pull the CD?
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      Sunny · 2 years ago
      Hello, this formula may help you =TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A12,"-",REPT(" ",255)),255)), A12 is the text string you use, change it as you need. If it works, please let me know. Thanks.
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    Wise Guy · 2 years ago
    LOL ...did you mean True?
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      Sunny · 2 years ago
      Embarrrassed...yes, I mean true~~, I have rewrote it, thank u for ur remind.
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