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Default Searching a cell for certain contents

I would like to check to see if a cell contains a certain string within the
whole cell. For example, if column B has a lot of data, and one of the
entries is "The cat in the hat" I would like a macro to search column B for
the word hat. I don't care what happens when it finds it at the moment, as I
believe i can establish that myself, I just need a command to search within a
cell for a certain word. I've tried using the InStr command a bit, but to no
avail!

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
 
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