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How to replace emojis with their text descriptions in Google Spreadsheets?


I have a Google Spreadsheets table with emojis:

sample table

I would like to add their text descriptions to the second column. I've created the mapping table on the second sheet:

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Now I am trying to understand how to replace several symbols in one cell with text descriptions (VLOOKUP doesn't help here).


Solution

  • =ARRAYFORMULA(VLOOKUP(SPLIT(B2:B," "),Description!A:B,2,FALSE))