This was super helpful. Thanks so much!

Quick question to expand on this. What if there are multiple return values. For example, I will trying to search for "Bob" and here are multiple Bobs and I want to return all of their last names. Is there a way to do more than one?

On Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:33:01 UTC-4, Luke M wrote:
Need to use an array** function using SEARCH (or FIND, if you want
case-sensitive).

Let's say your lookup column is in A2:A10, return column is C2:C10, and
value to find is in A1

=INDEX(C2:C10,MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(A1,A2:A10 )),0))

**Array formulas need to be confirmed using Ctrl+Shift+Enter,, not just Enter.
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"Ken K" wrote:

I am trying to match a list of data using Vlookup with an array that isn't an
exact match. Example, cell may have "red, white & blue" and the array has
"red". I want this to return a positive match, not N/A#.

Is there a way to do this using Vlookup or some other function?
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Ken K