I'd try it again. Maybe something like this, too:

=VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"),
Sheet2!$A:$B,2,FALSE)

* and ? are wildcard characters.

The tilde tells excel to treat the asterisk as an asterisk and the question mark
as a question mark--not as wild cards.

To tell excel to treat this "escape character" as itself, you double it up.



Andyp95 wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion - still no joy . . . .

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