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Feb 4, 2012

I want to search all the terms Column B within all the text phrases in Column A. I am ok if the words do not match the case sensitivity as I can address that myself.

If the exact phrase match is found, return the value True or False.

Column A
A1:Dog likes to run
A2: Cat Red-tummy-01

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I have a spreadsheet with 1,000 rows of data.

Each Cell in Column A has a different long text string.

I need to see which (if any) of 10 specific small text strings exist within each long text string. Depending on which small text string is found I want to return a 3 digit code. If no small text string is found I want to return "Not Found"

E.g.:
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- I want to see if Cell A2 contains any of the words APPLE, ORANGE, CARROT.
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Q: What is the most elegant way to accomplish this within a single formula that I could paste into each cell in Column B?

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To reiterate: the goal is to look at one cell filled with text, ask "does the text in that cell contain any of the keywords contained in [KeywordTable]", and if the answer is "Yes" return yes, and if the answer is no return no (or blanks).

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In this example only 3 rows would be found (3, 4, 8).

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Attached Image : excel string pic.jpg‎

Attached File : excel string formula conundrum.xlsx‎

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