I did a similar thing sometime ago. I needed to check around 100 words
of test in each cell for 20 keywords, so i put the keywords in cells B2
- B21 and then wrote a formula that checked for each keyword (located at
top of that column), returning a 1 when a match was found.

col1............................bob............... ........tom
text text bob text............1.........................0
text tom text...................0........................1
tom text bob...................1........................1

it is a simple use of the search function


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