In column A I have a long list of words (one per cell). My goal was to determine which words are made up of the same letters (e.g. Align, Lagging, and Ganglia, so repeated letters don't matter to me).
I made a formula to give each word a "score" by this system: An a is worth 1 point, a b is worth 2 points, a c is worth 4 points, and so on until z is worth 2^25 = 33,554,442 points. Words with the same score in this system must have the same letters.
My formula is long and cumbersome. It looks like: =if(isnumber(search("A",A1)),2^0,0)+if(isnumber(search("B",A1)),2^1,0)+... and so on all the way to a term that searches for Z.
I'm looking for help to make the formula more manageable. I thought having an array somewhere with letters in one column and their values in the adjacent column might help. But I hit a dead end on this.