Post some examples of the two lists.

But you could try this UDF from Rick Rothstein.

Function ExactWordInString(Text As String, Word As String) As Boolean
ExactWordInString = " " & UCase(Text) & " " Like "*[!A-Z]" & _
UCase(Word) & "[!A-Z]*"
End Function

Company name in A1

Company name written differently in B1 but has common word with A1

i.e. Kellog's in A1

The Kellog's Company in B1

In C1 enter this............=ExactWordInString(B1,A1)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 19 May 2011 09:45:46 -0700 (PDT), Sam
wrote:

I have 2 list of words. 1 is a list of top companies and another is a
list of all companies written in different ways. Now I want to find
where the words in the first array of the top companies exist in the
the second array of all companies of my contacts in my list and then
mark them. Please let me know a formula which I can use.