Excel If Cell Contains Text
May 8, 2024
Consider the following dataset of products and their IDs. We can search for a specific product using a predetermined value or a given value in a ...
Nov 11, 2025
While working in Excel, sometimes we need to find exact and partial matches of a text. We can use the combination of the IF & OR functions to do ...
May 26, 2024
To compare one text with another in Excel, use Logical Operators. If one text is not equal to another in Excel, use the “Not Equal to” operator.
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Apr 30, 2024
Sometimes we need to determine whether a cell contains text or not. You'll see this in the following example, where we use the ISTEXT function to ...
May 24, 2024
To demonstrate how to use IF-THEN statements with text in Excel, we will use the following dataset, which contains columns for Product, Color, and ...
Nov 11, 2025
We like to have our data sorted. Sometimes, we might face the necessity to differentiate cells containing text from the entire dataset. In this ...
Aug 6, 2024
Method 1 - Using the XLOOKUP Function to Check If a Cell Contains Text and Return the Value in Excel
The sample dataset contains students' Names. ...
Nov 11, 2025
Whenever you want to search for any specific text to do some operations you can easily do it in Excel. In this article, I’m going to show you in ...
May 10, 2024
The following dataset contains records of product codes, product lists, salesperson’s names, and corresponding sales values for a company. Using this ...
Apr 16, 2024
To explain detecting and adding text to cells, let's use a sample dataset containing ID, Product Name, and Size.
Method 1 - If ...
Apr 19, 2024
We will be using a sample product price list as a dataset to demonstrate all the methods.
Method 1 - Check If Cell Contains Partial Text ...
Jul 2, 2024
We have entries of certain Categories and Products in a dataset. We'll check if a cell contains text and then return a value in Excel.
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Jul 4, 2024
Here's an overview of using the VLOOKUP function to get a partial case-insensitive match within an array.
How to Use VLOOKUP If a Cell ...
Aug 7, 2024
This is the sample dataset.
Method 1 - Combining the IF and the COUNTIF Functions
Steps:
Prepare a dataset.
To find cells ...
Sep 19, 2025
Functions Used in This Article
The COUNTIFS Function:
This function counts cells that match multiple criteria. The syntax of the COUNTIFS ...
