SUCCESS! Yesterday was too long of a day. A $ was missing from one of the
formulas.
I ended up using
=SUM(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($M$1:$M$10,$A2&" "&$B2))*($M$1:$M$10<""))
....and it works BEAUTIFULLY!
THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP, HARLAN AND BOB!

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Yes, I am absolutely sure. As given by me, the first row selected should be
row 2, if yours is different, change the A2 and B2.

But, Harlan gave a much better formula than mine (and I can vouch for that
one as well).

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HTH

Bob

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"Keep It Simple Stupid" wrote
in message ...
The formula ended up highlighting everything, whether the words were
located
in the column or not.
Are you sure this would be the formula to format Row X if Row X has Dog,
Cat, etc in column A or B?
What could I have done wrong???? (So close, yet so far!)

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Put the words in a list, say M1:M10, and use a formula of

=OR(AND($A2<"",SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($M$1:$M$10,$A2))))),AND($B2<"",S UMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($M$1:$M$10,$B2))))))



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HTH

Bob

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"Keep It Simple Stupid"
wrote
in message ...
Is there a conditional formatting formula that can format an entire row
a
certain way if Column A or Column B contain all or one of the words in
a
list.
Basically if either Column A or Column B contain "dog" and/or "cat"
and/or
"mouse" and/or ....
then I want the whole row to be flagged/shaded/etc.