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Search for specific words in a thread ???? ahhhh!

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    Search for specific words in a thread ???? ahhhh!

    Hi All

    I hath placed upon the a challenge....

    I am trying to find a formula which can find certain words within a text string and place that word in the next cell, see example in the attached picture.

    ~ I download data from an external source and in row A is a list of random text.
    ~ Within this text there are 3 words for which i am searching "Pass" "Fail" or "Reject".
    ~ I need a formula which can find one of these 3 words and place it in row B as a match.

    At the moment i am doing this manually and its driving me crazy, this is just a small sample the actual database is pretty big

    Can you help ?

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    Re: Search for specific words in a thread ???? ahhhh!

    =LOOKUP(10^10,SEARCH({"pass","fail","reject"},A2),{"pass","fail","reject"})

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    Re: Search for specific words in a thread ???? ahhhh!

    Thanks Teethless mama - Perfect

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    Re: Search for specific words in a thread ???? ahhhh!

    You're Welcome!

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