Conditional Formatting if cell is not empty

[MrsNic]

I have a spreadsheet that uses the following formula to search for some text contained in a colum in a particular range and highlight the cell where the the criteria is met.

=SEARCH(H$1,$C3)

To improve this I only want it to highlight the cell if it is not empty. I have played about with various options but can't get anything to work.

Any advice gratefully received.

 

[combo]

You could use:
=(LEN(SUBSTITUTE(H$1,$C3,""))<>LEN(H$1))

combo

 

[MrsNic]

Thanks for this, it almost worked but gave me the required syntax to solve the problem. The way I solved it was

=IF(G3<>"",SEARCH(G$1,$C3),"")

Again many thanks