find different words, and act different by finding them

danielhollander

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Hi!


My problem is the following.


In cell L2 is a sentence that can contain 4 different words. The function first need to find the word, then act on it.


As exampel:


text WW text text text
text text XX text text
YY text text text
text text text ZZ


When cell l2 contains WW, cell M2 need to say WW
When cell l2 contains XX, cell M2 need to say XX
When cell l2 contains YY, cell M2 need to say YY
When cell l2 contains ZZ, cell M2 need to say ZZ


Hopefully someone understands, and help me.


Many thanks!
 

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Hi,

Similar to shg's, just using a List/Table for the keywords:


Book1
LMN
2text WW text text textWWWW
3text text XX text textXXXX
4YY text text textYYYY
5text text text ZZZZZZ
Sheet350
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
M2=LOOKUP(2,1/SEARCH(N$2:N$5,L2),N$2:N$5)
 
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Hi,

Similar to shg's, just using a List/Table for the keywords:

LMN
text WW text text textWWWW
text text XX text textXXXX
YY text text textYYYY
text text text ZZZZZZ

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Sheet350

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Thanks the column can recognize if the words are in the sentence now. He put a 0 if those words are found.

I want the column to repeat the word he found. Do you have a solution for that?
 
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2​
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[TD]text WW text text text[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCFFCC"]WW[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCFFCC"]B2: =LOOKUP(9999, SEARCH({"WW","XX","YY","ZZ"}, A2), {"WW","XX","YY","ZZ"})[/TD]
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5​
[/TD]
[TD]text text text ZZ[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: #CCFFCC"]ZZ[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

What do you mean with "9999".
Does this lookup repeat the words found?
 
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Both shg and my formula returns the Word that is found, I don't know what you mean by:

He put a 0 if those words are found.
 
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