Excel formula if two cells have same word

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Hi,

Please help me, how to make a formula if two cells have multiple words and if they have same word will become true.
Example.

I want in Column C will "True" if Column A & B have same word.

[TABLE="width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="align: center"]A[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]B[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]C[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Fc Innsbruck Union[/TD]
[TD]Fc Stated Innsbruck[/TD]
[TD]True[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Fc Hoechst[/TD]
[TD]Blau Hoechst Feldkirch[/TD]
[TD]True[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Al Hidd[/TD]
[TD]Qalali[/TD]
[TD]False[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Dinamo Minsk[/TD]
[TD]Minsk Mozyr[/TD]
[TD]True[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

Thank you & Regards,
Roy
 

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Welcome to the forum.

This kind of thing is never pretty using formulas. It's much easier to maintain with a VBA user-defined function. However, the following formula does seem to work:

ABC

<tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Innsbruck Union[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Stated Innsbruck[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Hoechst[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blau Hoechst Feldkirch[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Al Hidd[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Qalali[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Dinamo Minsk[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Minsk Mozyr[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]The Balloon Place[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]The Balloon Place[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blackjack way[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blackjack way[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]This is a very long line to test it[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]I don't know if every word here works very well[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]This is a long line to test it[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]I don't know if every word here works very well[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

</tbody>
Sheet5​

[TABLE="width: 85%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Array Formulas[TABLE="width: 100%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TH]Cell[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Formula[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]C1[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]{=ISNUMBER(AGGREGATE(15,6,SEARCH(MID(" "&A1&" ",IF(MID(" "&A1&" ",ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)+1)),1)=" ",ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)+1)),NA()),FIND(" "," "&A1&" ",ROW(INDIRECT("2:"&LEN(A1)+2)))-ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)+1))+1)," "&B1&" "),1))}[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Entered with Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If entered correctly, Excel will surround with curly braces {}.
Note: Do not try and enter the {} manually yourself[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]


Note 1: AGGREGATE was added in 2010, older versions of Excel can't handle this formula.

Note 2: When pasting your sample data, the spaces came across as character code 160. I don't know if that's how the data really is, or if it's just an artifact of the copy/pasting process. If the data actually has code 160 instead of spaces, change every instance of " " to CHAR(160) in the formula. Or use Replace All.
 
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Eric W said:
Welcome to the forum.

This kind of thing is never pretty using formulas. It's much easier to maintain with a VBA user-defined function. However, the following formula does seem to work:

ABC

<tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Innsbruck Union[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Stated Innsbruck[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Hoechst[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blau Hoechst Feldkirch[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Al Hidd[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Qalali[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Dinamo Minsk[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Minsk Mozyr[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]The Balloon Place[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]The Balloon Place[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blackjack way[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blackjack way[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]This is a very long line to test it[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]I don't know if every word here works very well[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]This is a long line to test it[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]I don't know if every word here works very well[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

</tbody>
Sheet5​

[TABLE="width: 85%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Array Formulas[TABLE="width: 100%"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TH]Cell[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Formula[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]C1[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]{=ISNUMBER(AGGREGATE(15,6,SEARCH(MID(" "&A1&" ",IF(MID(" "&A1&" ",ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)+1)),1)=" ",ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)+1)),NA()),FIND(" "," "&A1&" ",ROW(INDIRECT("2:"&LEN(A1)+2)))-ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)+1))+1)," "&B1&" "),1))}[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Entered with Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If entered correctly, Excel will surround with curly braces {}.
Note: Do not try and enter the {} manually yourself[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]


Note 1: AGGREGATE was added in 2010, older versions of Excel can't handle this formula.

Note 2: When pasting your sample data, the spaces came across as character code 160. I don't know if that's how the data really is, or if it's just an artifact of the copy/pasting process. If the data actually has code 160 instead of spaces, change every instance of " " to CHAR(160) in the formula. Or use Replace All.
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Hi Sir Eric,

Thank you for the reply.

I'm sorry I have another problem. I want to apply in column (example below)

I want to put True in Column B, If Column A have same word in Column E within the column.

ABE

<tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Innsbruck Union[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]True[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Blau Hoechst Feldkirch[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Hoechst [/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]True[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Fc Stated Innsbruck [/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Al Hidd[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]False[/TD]
[TD="align: right"] Minsk Mozyr[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Dinamo Minsk [/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]True[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Qalali[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"] The Balloon Place [/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]True[/TD]
[TD="align: right"] The Balloon Place [/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court [/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]True[/TD]
[TD="align: right"] Blackjack Ace[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]False[/TD]
[TD="align: right"] Court B[/TD]

[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

</tbody>
****** id="cke_pastebin" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; left: -1000px;">
ABC

<tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Innsbruck Union[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Stated Innsbruck[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Fc Hoechst[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blau Hoechst Feldkirch[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Al Hidd[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Qalali[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Dinamo Minsk[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Minsk Mozyr[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]The Balloon Place[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]100 Ball Court[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]The Balloon Place[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blackjack way[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]Blackjack way[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]ABC Jack Street[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]This is a very long line to test it[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]I don't know if every word here works very well[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]10[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]This is a long line to test it[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #FAFAFA"]I don't know if every word here works very well[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]FALSE[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]TRUE

[/TD]

</tbody>
</body>
Thanks & Regards

HUHUHUHU -_-
 
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Just put the formula in B1 instead of C1, and change the B1 near the end to a C1.
 
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