Search for specific value in

[au2010]

Hello. I have some data organized as shown below. Column E represents invoice numbers that have been paid by clients.

What I'm trying to do is check whether or not a given invoice number appears in Column E. If each row in Column E contained only one invoice number, I could do this using =match(Invoice #, Column E,0).

However, the cells in Column E sometimes contain more than one invoice number (such as in cell E2, as highlighted below).

Any suggestions on how to use an Excel formula (or formulas) to check whether or not a specific invoice appears in Column E?

Thank you.

 

[au2010]

From original poster: Sorry, title for this post should have been "Search for Specific Value in a Column with mixed data types."

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[Fluff]

How about

=COUNTIFS(E:E,"*"&G2&"*")

where G2 holds the invoice number.

 

[au2010]

Yes, that works perfectly. Thank you.

 

[Fluff]

You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.