How to group excel items based on custom rules?

Question

I have a set of data (webmaster tools search queries) which is in excel with the following header:

Query | Impressions | Clicks | Date

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Answer 1

Ok, I changed your sheet a bit....

Supposing all your data was in cells A1:C9, then you had the following table in cells F1:G5

Search_For:    Category:
laptop         Laptop
iphone         Phone
galaxy         Phone
notebook       Laptop

Now, in cell D2, put in the following formula:

=IFERROR(INDEX(G$2:G$5,MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(F$2:F$5,A2)),0)),"other")

And enter it as an array formula Meaning, once you enter it, hit CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.

You can then drag the formula from cell D2 down and it should give you the desired results (and you can, of course, increase the list in columns F & G as necessary).

Hope this does the trick!!