Formula for if any word in a cell starts with a specific letter?

Bakstaj

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  1. 2016
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Is there a formula to determine if any word in a cell begins with a specific letter? I am trying to build a workbook for people doing a reading challenge. One challenge is to read a book with a word in the title that starts with each letter of the alphabet. I want to automate it so a column for A would get an "X" if any word in the title starts with an "A" and so on through 26 columns.
 
One example isn't much to go on, but here's a possible formula option.

Book1
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAABACADAEAFAGAHAIAJAKALAMAN
1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
2Good Omens      X       X           
3Pride and PrejudiceX              X          
4To Kill a MockingbirdX         X X      X      
5Brave New World X           X        X   
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
O2:AN5O2=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(" "&O$1," "&$C2)),"X","")
 
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