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Default Maybe an array ?

Office XP pro,

Thanks in advance, I have been trying to figure this out for a
week.


Have a 10 words text in each cell in column B
Have 1 reference each in Column J

Need to pick a cell from column J based on one or more of the words in
column B and show itin column H

Something like:
=if(b2="*retirement*",J5,"NOT FOUND") Notice the *, the word
retirement is included in a phrase that contain many other words.

but it is much more complicated than that:

Probably an "Array", which I just can't seen to get the hang of,
There are many possible conditions in column B that need corresponding
entries for column J:

Column B Column J
retirement Not found
award Rule 10
call Rule 5
Welcoming Rule 12
hosting Rule 2
change Rule 8
,etc ,etc


Such that B2:B2..B100 =J2..J2:J23 (only 22 rules + "Not Found")
Column B can be any length but would have only a limited amout of
words to lookup the rule in J. Each cell in B would have only one
reference in J, but B could be redundant, for ex: B2 could be "award"
and B6 could be "award" and B32 could be "award".

Thanks again,,, too tough for me

 
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