Sum of Returned Lookup Values in a Text Cell

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Travis - Apr 25, 2016 at 12:49 PM
BaCkToHaCk Posts 90 Registration date Thursday July 30, 2015 Status Member Last seen May 13, 2016 - Apr 25, 2016 at 10:44 PM
I'm using the lookup formula below to search user comments in cell B1 to find individual words listed in column C, and return the adjacent number value found in column D.

=LOOKUP(9999,SEARCH($C$1:$C$837,B1),$D$1:$D$837)

The problem I'm running into is that excel only returns the number value for the first word that it finds, when I really want it to return the sum of the adjacent number values of all of the words it finds in the cell.

Example: the comment: "The stores should stock more makes and more current styles and colors", should give me a comment sum of 24 - 10 for "styles" and 14 for "colors", but excel is only returning a 10 for "styles".

Please help!
Thank you!!

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BaCkToHaCk Posts 90 Registration date Thursday July 30, 2015 Status Member Last seen May 13, 2016 26
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