Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What I am trying to do with the attached excel spreadsheet is to place an IF formula in each of the cells within the black border. The formula cold be something like this: IF(row 4 = "april" then place a number (say 1). The problem I am facing is that even though the cells in row 4 show names of months, the cells themselves obviously contain formulas so when I place in the IF formula to search for the month of April, it isn't doing it as it is looking at the relevant cell and seeing a formula not a word. Is there any syntax to tell the formula to look at the text of the cell rather than the formula ie the formula looks at "i4" and sees "Apr" rather than seeing "Date(year(...),Mont(...)+...,1)"? Kind regards Pauline Wood ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************