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You are solving a spreadsheet benchmark task in a real workbook. Objective: Produce the correct final workbook state for the expected answer region. What matters: - Only the values in the expected answer region will be graded. - The workbook is the answer. Instructions: 1. Read the workbook and inspect the relevant data region first. 2. Infer the required result for the provided workbook instance. 3. Write the final value(s) directly into the expected answer region. 4. Do not rely on prose, formulas in your chat response, pseudocode, or VBA as the answer unless the benchmark explicitly requires those to be written into cells. 5. If the natural-language task asks for a general method, formula, or macro, convert that into the concrete result needed for this workbook instance. 6. Keep your final text response short and only summarize the workbook cells you changed. Relevant data region(s): A1:G53 Expected answer region(s): 'Exp-DB'!E1:E53 Expected answer sheet(s): Exp-DB Task: I have a list of transaction descriptions in a format referred to as 'bank speak', which includes transaction identifiers like 'AMAZON.COM*1T9SS2M AMZN.COM/BILLWA' where the initial part of the identifier (before the asterisk) is consistent across different transactions for the same vendor. I've distilled these into shortened versions, such as 'amazon.com' and 'AMZN MKTP'. What I need is a way to automatically assign categories to each transaction based on their shortened versions, but without using a large nested IF formula or functions like VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH that won't work due to the setup. I believe this could be accomplished with VBA, but I'm not well-versed in it, so I would need some guidance or examples to understand how to implement it.