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I have received a workbook containing lists, unfortunately the names are listed in individual cells - several per cell, separated by commas. I need to highlight wherever a particular name occurs without splitting the data from the cell, ie like Find but within the cell.

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I have a data set containing text (no numbers) that spans several columns and rows. I have a list of 'allowed' words (about 100 words) that can be in these cells. If a cell contains a sentence with a word that is anything other than these allowed words it should be somehow marked. Ideally the 'wrong' word itself is marked, but it would already be very useful if the cell that contains the word is marked in some way.

I tried conditional formatting, but it seems to only allow formatting cells that contain a certain word, not if it doesn't contain certain words. Is there a function or a script that would be able to do this?

Simplified example:

Say you have four allowed words:
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Pear
Orange
Banana

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>Apple Banana
>Pear Pear Orange Pear
>Banana Apple Orange Kiwi

The third cell should be marked because it contains a word outside of the set.

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test case 3 tst 3
case for excel
test 4
tst nº 5

Excel1.JPG

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A
B
C

1
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If res = "" Then Exit Sub
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