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    Re: Isnumber(search results misleading

    Try in B55 copied across and down

    =IF(B$54="",FALSE,IF(LEFT($A55,LEN(B$54)+1)=B$54&",", TRUE, IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(","&B$54&",",SUBSTITUTE($A55," ",""))),TRUE,FALSE)))

    This can be shortened to

    =OR((LEFT($A55,LEN(B$54)+1)=B$54&","),(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(","&B$54&",",SUBSTITUTE($A55," ","")))))

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    Re: Isnumber(search results misleading

    Nearly but both methods lose the last numbers;
    in row 1 - 7,8 is displayed as FALSE when it should be TRUE
    in row 2 & 3 - it's 5,6
    row 4 has no TRUE results when it should have 7,8

    etc

    i'm guessing this is because of the formula checking to see if the value matches B$54 & ","

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    Re: Isnumber(search results misleading

    So long as it works it doesn't really need to be eloquent, lol.

    Again it's just slightly off - the rows which have more than one column being TRUE work, but rows 58 (7,8) and 62 (13,14) still show all as FALSE.

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