It is supergood, million thanks for sharing with us!

By using your formula I just created a Boolean String Generator in xls format having three separated sheets for AND-OR-NOT. It can be easily used for the keyword-based searches (and certainly, for target companies as well).

Now my sourcers can save it for each of their positions (and with this will create our keyword library!) which offers some really strong benefits:

1. They can check all of the keywords and the keyword history they wanted and will want to try.
* AND sheet contains the must-have requirements
* OR for the nice-to-have and sysnonymes
* NOT for the not/never keywords

2. The saved and stored sheets, containing a good collection of keywords for a certain position, can be used in future so they will not need to create the Boolean Strings from scratch again.

3. It saves their time, certainly.

So, many thanks again for this.

Only one comment regarding the NOT command. In my spreadsheet H2 cell contains not only ” but NOT ” as this command anticipates the keyword. Therefore the =H$2&B2&””” OR ” formula changes as follows =H$2&B2&”””.

Wish you a great week-end,
Balazs

Step 1. In column A1 enter a company name, or even a key word. Make sure you put quote marks at the beginning and end and also add one extra space using your space bar. Do the same for additional company names or keywords in A2, A3, etc.

Step 2. In column B1 enter the word OR and add an extra space after it. You can then move your cursor over the lower edge of B1 and pull down to copy that value into the cells for B2, B3, etc.

Step 3. Go to formulas and use the Concatenate formula your cell entry in C1 should be this =CONCATENATE(A1,B1)

You can go to the lower edge of C1 and pull down to duplicate for cells C2, C3, etc. as appropriate.

Step 4. Left click (Mac may be different) and highlight data in column C then right click to copy data.

Step 5. Right click on cell D1 and select Paste Special. A dialogue box opens and make sure radio button Values is selected. The click OK and copy contents to either the keywords or company search box on LinkedIn.

Step 6. Add ( to beginning of data set, remove ending OR and close with)

Enjoy!

thanks for this tip – this is great and a real time saver.

This will enclose your Company Name in quotes “Company Name” in the OR statement

I tried your formula and am getting an error – specifically with the =H$2&B2&””” OR ” piece

The ””” bit is highlighted in excel as part of the issue. any ideas there?
Thanks