Comparing part of cell value with other cells values

angelico

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Lets say I have cells in row A that have text data

1 Blue
2 Blue Submarine
3 Red Lagoon
4 Green hornet

I want excel to compare cell value of all cells and copy cells that are entirely duplicate or part of 1 cell that is duplicate of part of some other cell like in A1 A2, to column b. Only cells that contain identical values of minimum 9 chars should be copied over to adjecent cell, so I wouldnt get copied cells of (a, the, of) or numbers like eg. A1 - 23 A2-232 giving a positive match.

So the end result would be

------A--------------- B
1 Blue------------- Blue
2 Blue horizon------ Blue horizon
3 Red Lagoon
4 Green hornet


I have 36527 rows atm

Is this possible?
 
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