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Thank you very much for your swift reponce. This sounds like the right
formula, but its just returning a number 16. I need it to say True if it
appears in the sentence, or a " 1" will do
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if you need to know if the word present in cell A1 is in the cell B1
text you can put this formula in cell C1:
=FIND(A1,B1,1)


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