Formula Help

[simonbck]

Iv setup a spreadsheet which contains horse racing results. There are 3 columns with the names of horses.1st, 2nd and 3rd.
I want to put a name of a horse into sheet 2 and i want it to be able to tell me if the name appears on sheet 1. please can you help with the formula?

Thanks

simon

[Azam Ali]

suppose you name in Cell A1 in sheet 2 and houses names are in columns A, B & C in sheet 1, use

=IF((IF(ISERROR(MATCH($A$1,Sheet1!A:A,0)),0,MATCH($A$1,Sheet1!A:A,0))+IF(ISERROR(MATCH($A$1,Sheet1!B:B,0)),0,MATCH($A$1,Sheet1!B:B,0))+IF(ISERROR(MATCH($A$1,Sheet1!C:C,0)),0,MATCH($A$1,Sheet1!C:C,0)))>0,"Appears","Not Appears")

Note: the countif & vlookup function could also be used to get same result

there could be a short formula if you use excel 2007

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