Conditional Formatting Using Formulas

reneev

reneev

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I need do to a conditional format using a formula. I need it to highlight the cell A2: if A2 contains the words "Limit PT" and A1 is =<56.

I can do the second part, but I've never had to do a "contains" formula so I'm not sure how to do that.
 

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How about
=AND(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Limit PT",A2)),A1<=56)
 
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YES! That worked, thank you. Can you explain the ISNUMBER(Search? I saw both of those options but I didn't understand how they worked together
 
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Search returns the position of "Limit PT" within the cell & if it's not found will return #Value !
IsNumber checks if the value returned by Search is a number & returns either true or false.
 
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