Can you post some examples?

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


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I'm having a problem while using excel 2002.
I have an estimated amount of 3500 cells containing text.

I also have 450 words and for all of them I have abbreviations.

What is the easiest way for me to manipulate those 3500
cells so that if they contained a word defined in this list of
450 words so that those words will be transformed into
each abbreviation?