Keith,

Chip Pearson's page has a good section on different ways
of using the Match function to get more selective results.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/lookups.htm

Combine this with =Countif(sheet1!A1:A30000,"=*main*") to
get the number of references you need.

Alternatively, a short macro using find and findnext could
do the trick.

Pete.

-----Original Message-----
I am comparing two worksheets, and the only way I have
found to
compare and find both exact and partial matches is by
using the Match
function, and since it only works on one column - I need
to use it on
one column at a time. The way you can find partial
matches is by
appending an asterisk at the beginning and end of the
string you are
looking for.

But my database (Sheet1) has 30,000 rows, and has
multiple hits for a
given cell in Sheet2. For example, I want to find all
customers that
live on Main Street. So in Sheet2, I entered *Main* in
cell B4, and
then enter the following in Cell C4. This will search
through column
A in sheet1 from Cell A1 through Cell A30000, where the
addresses are
stored:

=MATCH(B4,Sheet1!A$1:A$30000,0)

But the problem is that it returns the row number of the
first match -
which is 8. However, "Main Street" exists in row 8, row,
37, row 96,
etc.

I want to somehow search for all instances of the
word "Main" in
column A. Is there any way to do this?

.