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Keyword searching in ms excel

I need to do a keyword search in excel, and enter "tags" for approximately 40 keywords in a separate column. The text to be searched is all in one column. Some of the keywords will return the same tag, but the tag should only be included one time.

I am attaching a file that can be used for testing, showing the result.

Thanks
test-file-for-experts-exchange-J.xlsx

Jacques Geday

I'm looking at the whole file and not sure I understand well what you want.

Are we concentrating on Col E and Their Coresponding Tags in Col F from Row 3 to 13 (that is what I understood from the question raised above).

BUT when I looked further down in your worksheets I see Additional Tags in diffrent Column C to be added which making me confused do you mean you want to add to the above result whatever is in the Column C ???

If yes pls check this first attempt making sure that you enable Macroes and type whatever tag you want in Col E at the row that you want and pressing ENTER should give you the expected result in Col F

Let me know if this is what you want or else pls comment so we can finetune it.
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test-file-for-experts-exchange-J.xlsm

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tomwaddell

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Thank you. Your solution was perfect, and timely.

Tom Waddell

Jacques Geday

Did you try the one I posted ?
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tomwaddell

ASKER

Yes. It works fine with a couple tweaks. Thanks

Jacques Geday

I Just noticed you needed for it to check Col B which was not mentioned in your original post which column to test.

As a small note for future try working on clarifying what the problem is and what you expect from Experts in your question just before hitting your final GO on the question as this would help waisted time and ensure you get a sharp reply.

In any case here is my solution anyway. Activate the button in Sheet1

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test-file-for-experts-exchange-J.xlsm