Excel Exact Word Matching

Question

Let\'s say I have \"Vegas is great\" in cell A1. I want to write a formula that looks for the exact word, \"gas\" in cells. Vegas ≠ gas, but the only search formula I\'m finding

Answer 1

The Find function is case sensitive. The SEARCH function is not. There is no need for the LOWER function if you are using SEARCH.

SEARCH(, , [optional])

Wrap both the find_text and within_text in spaces and perform your SEARCH.

        

The formula in B1 is,

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH(" gas ", " "&A1&" "))

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