突出显示包含扩展列表中单词的单元格

Question

I need to use a formula and conditional formatting to highlight cells that contain keywords from a list. The problem is that the list is not always the same size.

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What would be the most efficient formula to do that?

Answer 1

Here is an option:

• Select A2:A20
• New formatting rule: =SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(INDIRECT("$B$2:$B$"&COUNTA(B:B)),$A2))))>0
• Apply formatting and confirm

While INDIRECT is volatile, it's okay to use in conditional formatting because conditional formatting is volatile on it's own.

Note, this will also highlight the cells that contain a words that have a keyword as substring, eg Motorboat will highlight with keyword Motor