If formula where cell contains a range of values

[Buchan19]

Hi

I am a novice excel user and battling with a formula - extract below where column A "description" contains a range of values (free text), what I want is a formula that will identify whether the text contains certain text eg "DW-EXP", or "AW-EXP" or "DW-DEP", since the text can be anywhere in the text string I am not able to use LEFT/Right etc....I do not want to apply filters as I need to manipulate the data further. Basically I want to return "DW-EXP", or "AW-EXP" or "DW-DEP" in Column D if that is contained within the text string in Col A:

ColumnA ColumnB ColumnC ColumnD
Description $ $
ABC ZXY DW-EXP 123 908 100 200
ABC ZXY AW-EXP 123 908 100 200
ABC ZXY DW-DEP 123 908 100 200
ABC ZXY 123 908 DW-EXP 100 200
AW-EXP ABC ZXY 123 908 100 200
AW-EXP ABC ZXY 100 200
ABC DW-DEP 123 908 100 200
ABC ZXY DW-DEP 123 908 1234567 100 200
AW-EXP ABC ZXY 123 908 100 200

Sure its simple but struggling today!

[Pete_UK]

Put this in D2:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("DW-EXP",A2)),"DW-EXP",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("AW-EXP",A2)),"AW-EXP",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("DW-DEP",A2)),"DW-DEP","")))

then copy down.

Hope this helps.

Pete

[e.isayev]

Here is the answer. Have a look.

[Sindhus]

You can try the the formual this way.

=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(MATCH("*DW-EXP*",A1,0)),ISNUMBER(MATCH("*DW-DEP*",A1,0)),ISNUMBER(MATCH("*AW-EXP*",A1,0))),TRUE,FALSE)

[e.isayev]

You can try the the formual this way.

=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(MATCH("*DW-EXP*",A1,0)),ISNUMBER(MATCH("*DW-DEP*",A1,0)),ISNUMBER(MATCH("*AW-EXP*",A1,0))),TRUE,FALSE)

Does it give only true or false?

[Sindhus]

Oh i missed the last line. This formula returns true/false only. If you want, put the formula structure as Pete_Uk mentioned.

=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH("*DW-EXP*",A1,0)),"DW-EXP",IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH("*DW-DEP*",A1,0)),"DW-DEP",IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH("*AW-EXP*",A1,0)),"AW-EXP",FALSE)))

[Buchan19]

Thanks for the help :-)

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