look for parts off contents in a cell

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FreddieP

Hi I wonder if someone can tell me if there is a formula that can find a
specific vword in a cell containing more than the specific word.

lets say the full contens in the cell is "the car is black" and I would it
to look for just the word "black", is this possible?
 
P

PCLIVE

This formula searches C15 for the word "Black" and returns the character
number (including spaces) at which the first letter of the word starts.

=FIND("Black",C15)
 
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Dave Peterson

=isnumber(search("black",a1))

would return true or false if black is found (or not found).

And =search() doesn't care about case Black, BLACk, BlAcK are all treated the
same.

If you want a case sensitive version, use =find() instead of =search().
 
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