Showing posts with label if function. Show all posts
Showing posts with label if function. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Two Versions of Nested IF functions using SEARCH functions in Excel

I have found these two formulas to be very useful.


 1) Use case is text mining for a certain theme in an open ended response. For example people who mention loving the outdoors we want to put in a category of people who mentioned the outdoors using various synonyms for that.

=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("outdoors"A2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH("outside",A2)), ,ISNUMBER(SEARCH("nature",A2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH("air",A2)),ISNUMBER(SEARCH("sunshine",A2))), "Nature lover", 0)

2) This version seeks to categorize each row based on one column of data. It searches for a word and if that word is found the output is specified, then it searches for a different word of interest and puts another specified value if that word is present.. The difference is that with the first formula the output is a binomial variable. This version has a potentially limitless number of categories as outputs.

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("tab", D2)), "Tablet", IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("dsk", D2)), "Desktop","Mobile"))


Hope this is helpful :)