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List repeated words in single cell excel

Hi Experts -
In continuity with my previous question of removing duplicates, I am posting this question. I have searched on the web and found many codes to remove the single cell duplicates, but I don't want to remove but list those words using excel and vba. The conditions are as below:

1. Immediate duplicates should be listed in adjacent column.
2. If no immediate duplicates are found, but the words are repeated in the sentence, it should be also be listed but in another column.
3. To ignore certain words specified by the user as a list in another sheet only if they are not "Immediate duplicates"
4. If group of words to compare is specified result should be as shown in the attached file.

Thanks
Repeated_Values_Single_Cell.xlsx

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Subodh Tiwari (Neeraj)

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Rocutana Rim

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Thanks Neeraj for the macro. It is fine. I am sorry if I am asking for more but please bear with me.

1. Can this line 'ignWord = Range("A9").Value' be modified to take a complete column in another sheet but one condition is that it should consider only whole words and should ignore for words which are part of the other word. eg. Haris (is should not be ignored).

2. Can it be made case sensitive and to accept spaces. (eg. Is vs is vs " is ")

3. Please check if the 4th condition can be done.

I know that 'Raw apple' is not an immediate repeated word, but sometimes in our data 'Columbia industries Columbia industries' will be in single cell, so I asked for that specific condition. Checking the repeated words column towards left will become very difficult for large data.

Also, Can this be done using regular expressions. If possible can you incorporate the above code in one module & regex in the 2nd module for me.

Thanks for your help

Rocutana Rim

ASKER

@Neeraj - I will close the question as of now and select your 1st answer as best solution, but kindly go through my previous comment and help me out with this.

Thank you