Calculated Formula for Finding three diferent results

Question

I am working on a calculated formula based on my [Tracking Number] column to get the following results:

1. Find "Andrews" return the result "ANDREWS".
2. Find "Bolling" return the result "BOLLING".
3. Find "Pentagon" return the result "PENTAGON".

The formula that I have come up with returns "ANDREWS" when it finds "Andrews", and returns #VALUE! for all the others.

This is the formula that I am using. Please help me resolve this issue.

=IF(FIND("Andrews",[Tracking Number]),"ANDREWS",IF(FIND("Bolling",[Tracking Number]),"BOLLING",IF(FIND("Pentagon",[Tracking Number]),"PENTAGON")))

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The FIND function is not real friendly… if there is not a match it returns an error. Here's one solution:

=IF( NOT(ISERR(FIND("Andrews",[Tracking Number]))), "ANDREWS",
      IF( NOT(ISERR(FIND("Bolling",[Tracking Number]))), "BOLLING",
         IF( NOT(ISERR(FIND("Pentagon",[Tracking Number]))), "PENTAGON", "none" )))

Here's an alternate solution:

=IF( ISNUMBER(FIND("Andrews",[Tracking Number])), "ANDREWS",
      IF( ISNUMBER(FIND("Bolling",[Tracking Number])), "BOLLING",
         IF( ISNUMBER(FIND("Pentagon",[Tracking Number])), "PENTAGON", "none" )))

Answer 2

Seems like You are missing last ELSE part in third third IF statement

=IF(
    FIND("Andrews",[Tracking Number]),
    "ANDREWS",
    IF(
        FIND("Bolling",[Tracking Number]),
        "BOLLING",
        IF(
            FIND("Pentagon",[Tracking Number]),
            "PENTAGON",
            " !!! NEED VALUE HERE !! "
        )
    )
)