You don't need the IF. Try

=COUNTIF(A4,"*docs\budget*")<>1

Hope this helps,

hutch

"Todd" wrote:

> I am trying to write a conditional format to check a line of text. I have
>
> =IF(COUNTIF(A4,"*docs\budget*")<>1)
>
> to check if the words docs\budget are in a line of text and this is not
> working.
>
> Here is an example of the text.
> Y:\auto\224\712\5225\01\docs\budget
>
> Where did I go wrong?
>
> Thanks.