Extract value of formula based cell through if statement

Question

I have a sheet where a cell D2 has a formula ie

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("exception",$A2))

It returns TRUE or FALSE. Now i have another cell where it should return the heading of the column if it has TRUE in it. So I tried :

=IF(D2="TRUE","Unhandled Exception")

But as it returns FALSE whatever I do, I think its because D2 has a formula in it so it is not returning the value even if TRUE is present.

Answer 1

I came across the same problem yesterday. Try changing your formula to

=IF(D2=TRUE,"Unhandled Exception")

Since the cell will have the value True, not the string "true"