如果包含来自另一个单元格的文本，则工作表条件格式

Question

I have a Google sheet which has a column for business name (A) and a column for city (B). I would like to set conditional formatting such that if the city name is contained within the business name on the same row, the business name will be highlighted.

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Every row contains different business/city data, and there are thousands of rows. I need one formula that will work for the whole sheet.

I know how to do it if the city name and business name are exactly the same =$A$2:$A=$B2 , but struggling to figure out how to do it if just a portion matches. Putting an asterisk before $B2 broke the formula.

Answer 1

Use SEARCH :

=AND(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(TRIM(B2),A2)),B2<>"")

with range starting from A2 . You search if A2 contains text from B2 and returns starting number if found. So if it is a number then ISNUMBER returns TRUE

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Answer 2

=REGEXMATCH ($A2,$B2) would do the work too!