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    Not sure if you can help me but I have been trying to find the right formula to sort within a column of cells for words. Within the column are email addresses. My goal is to create a sort function that will sort (using key words) through a column of a few thousand records(job titles) so I can give them a value to sort them into categories.

    Right now I have only been able to get this formula to work:

    =FIND("assistant", A2)

    And would have to go one word at a time.

    My question is if I can create a formula to search the entire column to identify as many job titles as possible using a command that allows for multiple options within the Find function. In other words, is there a way to do =FIND("receptionist" OR "assistant" OR "sales" OR "etc", A2)

    The OR part above is what I don't know how to create-any ideas?

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    Re: Using the Find Formula for more than one word at a time...

    Maybe something like this...

    Put this list somewhere on your worksheet (I used H1:H4)
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    This regular formula, copied down, returns 1 if A2 contains one of the listed values. Otherwise, zero.
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    Is that something you can work with?
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