Thread: [Solved] Explanation for this formula
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Old 11-26-2014, 06:28 AM
Bruno Campanini Bruno Campanini is offline Windows 8 Office 2013
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Originally Posted by Will View Post
Hi,

I was searching on-line for some help on the Find formula, and came across this. Would someone be able to explain it?

=LOOKUP(REPT("z",255),CHOOSE({1,2},"ANOTHER VALUE",LOOKUP(1000,FIND($E$1:$E$10,A1),$E$1:$E$10) ))
This is a bad formula (see my previous post).

Try this one, it's simple and more reliable:

=(IF(ISERROR(MATCH(A1,$E$1:$E$10,0)),"Another Value",A1))

Bruno

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