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Could you help me with a formula which I will use to Highlight data in a column? Using wildcards!

  • 1.  Could you help me with a formula which I will use to Highlight data in a column? Using wildcards!

    Posted Thu September 21, 2017 06:57 AM

    Background: I want to highlight the cell (red) if stated WBS used towards an Application has a WBS Description indicating that the WBS is ‘closed’.

    Following formula is working on specific WBS Description:

                   =IF({Applications Master Data.Stated Operations WBS Description}="CLOSED - OM Endur O&P","red","")

    But If I try to use wildcards to detect WBS Descriptions contain ‘closed’ I feel the taste of failure :-)

    Using R11





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  • 2.  Re: Could you help me with a formula which I will use to Highlight data in a column? Using wildcards!
    Best Answer

    Posted Thu September 21, 2017 10:40 AM

    Case-insensitive:

    =If(Search("closed", {Applications Master Data.Stated Operations WBS Description}) > 0, "red", "")

     

    Case-sensitive:

    =If(Find("closed", {Applications Master Data.Stated Operations WBS Description}) > 0, "red", "")


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  • 3.  Re: Could you help me with a formula which I will use to Highlight data in a column? Using wildcards!

    Posted Fri September 22, 2017 12:51 AM

    Thank you Christopher Davidson

     

    Cut and paste and both formulas you supplied worked.

    It seems that using 'Search' isn't case-sensitive which is what I need. It was case-sensitive using 'Find'.


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  • 4.  Re: Could you help me with a formula which I will use to Highlight data in a column? Using wildcards!

    Posted Fri September 22, 2017 02:37 PM

    Should be the other way around - at least that's what a recent test showed when we were using the FIND logic - SEARCH is case sensitive and FIND is not - now I think I'll go back and test again before we push our fix to production - eek!


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  • 5.  Re: Could you help me with a formula which I will use to Highlight data in a column? Using wildcards!

    Posted Fri September 22, 2017 02:44 PM

    Confirmed - FIND is not case sensitive - whew!


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