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Is it possible to do a VLOOKUP with a Wild Card? We have various systems that
display the names slightly different for our staff and would like to combine
it all in one sheet. Right now my lookup looks like this:

=VLOOKUP(A2, '[Premier Goals.xls]FTE'!$A$2:$F$100, 6, 0)

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Sure, you could do something like this:

=VLOOKUP(A2 & "*", '[Premier Goals.xls]FTE'!$A$2:$F$100, 6, 0)

If you had "abc" in cell A2, this would match "abc" and "abcdef".


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Is it possible to do a VLOOKUP with a Wild Card? We have various systems that
display the names slightly different for our staff and would like to combine
it all in one sheet. Right now my lookup looks like this:

=VLOOKUP(A2, '[Premier Goals.xls]FTE'!$A$2:$F$100, 6, 0)

Thank you

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Worked perfect. Thank you

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Is it possible to do a VLOOKUP with a Wild Card? We have various systems that
display the names slightly different for our staff and would like to combine
it all in one sheet. Right now my lookup looks like this:

=VLOOKUP(A2, '[Premier Goals.xls]FTE'!$A$2:$F$100, 6, 0)

Thank you

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