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    finding certain words within text

    I've got a workbook with about 85,000 rows. Column A of the workbook contains a name, B = date, and C contains the text to be searched. See attached example.

    After that, I've got columns with the words to find in C.

    I'm using this formula, but it isn't working:
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    I was hoping that the CLEAN function would fix the problem but it doesn't

    Can you suggest a solution? Thanks
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    Re: finding certain words within text

    Hi,

    One way in D9 copied across & down
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    I assume E9 is a typo and should be True.
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    Re: finding certain words within text

    Try just

    =ISNUMBER(SEARCH(D$8,$C9))

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    Cool Re: finding certain words within text

    Another way with PowerQuery
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    Re: finding certain words within text

    Thanks... all of these work. Sandy, did you create the powerquery range by defining it, or was it created automatically?

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    Re: finding certain words within text

    if column with text contain word then return True else False. That's all (Key Word: Contain)

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    Re: finding certain words within text

    That's great Sandy, for powerquery I'm a newbie, so didn't realize it had that function built in. I see it now when I open the edit window.

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    Re: finding certain words within text

    most users with excel 2016 do not know the capabilities of this software and use it in the excel 97 style

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    Re: finding certain words within text

    Thanks Sandy. Is there a way to eliminate the rows with "FALSE" before inserting into the worksheet? That would probably reduce its size considerably (and/or should I start a new thread on this subject)?

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    Cool Re: finding certain words within text

    sure
    here is v2 or more reduced v3
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    Re: finding certain words within text

    Great. Thanks Sandy!

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    Re: finding certain words within text

    You are welcome

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