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    Identifying Single Words from Column A if they appear in Multiple Word Entry in Column B

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    I'm trying to flag/mark/identify entries in column B that contain words from column A ...

    I need it to look at column A and flag anything that's a match ... not just one word specifically ...

    could be a conditional format, or an identifying output in column C ...

    I'm stuck

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    Re: Identifying Single Words from Column A if they appear in Multiple Word Entry in Column

    Try this in C1 and filled down.

    =LOOKUP(2^15,SEARCH(A$1:A$5,B1),A$1:A$5)

    B1 is the cell to search for keywords.
    A1:A5 is your list of keywords to search for
    IMPORTANT: There cannot be any blanks in A1:A5

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    Re: Identifying Single Words from Column A if they appear in Multiple Word Entry in Column

    woohoo!

    I hadn't played with lookup before - thanks!

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    Re: Identifying Single Words from Column A if they appear in Multiple Word Entry in Column

    You're welcome.

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