How to delete a specific word in Excel?

i need to ask if you there is something in excel where you can find a specific word in a cell and delete that but keep the other words or character in place. For example if I just want to delete dog in a cell. But the dog can be found in a middle of the word, at the end or the beginning. I just want to find that word and delete that

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Press Ctrl+F and select the replace tab. This will find and replace words in the document.

Find Replace Window shown here:

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You can use the SUBSTITUTE formula.

If your text is in column A, then you can type this in B1 and drag or copy

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"DOG","") 

The above formula will substitute the word DOG with a blank.

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