Thankyou for that SHORT version!
Basically,
I have an account number in A2
Column C to L are the REP Managerss for the accounts.
the managers have indicated in these columns whether the account is to be included in another report.
column C manager has put "NO" next the accounts he dont want included.
column D manager has also put "NO" next to the accounts he dont want included.
column E manager has put "DO NOT INCLUDE" next to the accounts.
there is no consistency!!
thats why I chose to use >0 as the search filter.
I have VLOOKUP from 10 spreadsheets into these columns. Copy & paste special, then in column M, have a 1 or a 0 if any of the cells contain anything other than #N/A or 0
your formula worked for me!
although I had already done it using this extremley long one:
=IF(C20>0,1,"")&IF(D20>0,1,"")&IF(E20>0,1,"")&IF(F20>0,1,"")&IF(G20>0,1,"")&IF(H20>0,1,"")&IF(I20>0,1,"")&IF(J20>0,1,"")&IF(K20>0,1,"")&IF(L20>0,1,"")
Thankyou for your help!
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