conditional formatting formula for if a cell contains some letters as part of its entry

TAKLAM

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Hello.
I want to format rows in a SS according to whether a cell in column "I" (and ONLY the cell in column "I") contains "CC" or not.
Column "I" either has entries that are along the lines of "CC10101" or "10101"- so either just a number or a number preceded by CC.
So I only want the row to be conditionally formatted if the cell in column "I" of that row contains CC as part of its entry.
I have tried:
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("CC",$I2)>1
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("CC",","&$I2&","))
and some others in a similar vein but they seem to sporadically change the formatting often even if the "I" cell does not contain a "CC" so I am clearly getting it wrong.
Any help would be much appreciated please.
 

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@TAKLAM Welcome.

Does this help?
Testing Formula Update.xlsm
GHIJ
212345CC876
3CC1234
4CC999
5CC123412234
6CC101010
7
Sheet3
Cells with Conditional Formatting
CellConditionCell FormatStop If True
2:8Expression=LEFT($I2,2)="CC"textNO
 
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