我试图找到一个公式，如果它包含位于另一列中的任何单词，可以突出显示一列中的单元格

Question

Column A contains US Cities, one city per cell, going down the column.

Column B contains sentences that may or may not contain one of the cities mentioned in Column A.

I would like to have Column B highlighted if it contains any of the cities mentioned in column A.

Note: There will be other text besides the city name in the cells.

Here is a sample of what it would look like without anything highlighted

Everything in column B should be highlighted except "from xyz"

Answer 1

You can accomplish this by using Conditional Formatting. In Excel 2007 and later:

1. Select cells B1:B4 by clicking on cell B1 and dragging down to B4 , so that B1 is the Active Cell
2. Click Home -> Conditional Formatting -> New Rule...
3. In the New Formatting Rule dialog, select the Use a formula to determine which cells to format option
4. In the Format values where this formula is true textbox, enter the following: =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH($A$1:$A$4, B1))) > 0
5. Click the Format... button
6. In the Format Cells dialog, set your desired formatting options (eg select the yellow color on the "Fill" tab), and click the OK button
7. In the New Formatting Rule dialog, click the OK button

Result:

Answer 2

You can do this by using VBA/Macros. For your example, press Alt+F11 , then insert module and put this macro code:

Sub highlight()
Dim n As Integer, strng As String
Dim LastRow As Long
    Columns("B:B").Select
    n = 1
    With ActiveSheet
        LastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
    End With

    For n = 1 To LastRow
        strng = "=$A$" & n
        Selection.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlTextString, String:=strng, _
            TextOperator:=xlContains
        Selection.FormatConditions(Selection.FormatConditions.Count).SetFirstPriority
        With Selection.FormatConditions(1).Interior
            .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
            .Color = 13551615
            .TintAndShade = 0
        End With
        Selection.FormatConditions(1).StopIfTrue = False
    Next n
End Sub

Here is an example file you can check.