Check if a cell contains a word in listA, if not, then check if it contains a word in list

Hi there!


little background:
I have two sheets: "Sheet1" and "Keywords", the "Keywords" sheet has two keywords columns ( H & G ) and a category column ( D ), and "Sheet1" has a description column (Column E).

Requirement:
The description cell should contain keywords from both keyword columns ( at least one from H and one from G), if it does, then the formula should return the category ( D ), if it doesn't however, then it should check it against the next row in the keywords column and so on.

What I have done:

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The problem with this code:
this code works perfectly, but the issue is that excel limits me to ~8000 characters, so I can't go through the whole keywords columns.


Is there more efficient way of doing this? a simple FOR loop would suffice but excel doesn't support them afaik.

Your help is much appreciated!

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