How to Search for Multiple Terms in Excel and Return a Phrase?

Question

I'm trying to check if a term is present in one cell, and then return a value if that term is present.
For example, in the cell A1, the phrase "marriott marquis houston" is present, I want, if the word "marquis" is present, for there to be an output in cell B1 saying "marquis". I want to check for several terms so this should be respeatable

=IF(SEARCH("jw",E258)," jw marriott", IF(SEARCH("westin",E258)," Westin"))

etc, but it didn't work

Answer 1

Put your lookup and wanted outputs in a table and use XLOOKUP:

=XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(G1:G2,A1)),H1:H2,"")

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If one does not have XLOOKUP then INDEX/AGGREGATE will work:

=INDEX(H:H,AGGREGATE(15,7,ROW(G1:G2)/(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(G1:G2,A1))),1))

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One note on these. this will return Westin if Westing is found in the text string, it does not look at whole words.

If that is desired, change the SEARCH to include spaces:

SEARCH(" "&G1:G2&" "," "&A1&" ")

Though note that if there is punctuation, that may need to dealt with also.