Thread: With F1 value, look at A, if match or partial match return B
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Default With F1 value, look at A, if match or partial match return B
Hi Howard,

Am Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:33:43 -0800 (PST) schrieb L. Howard:

The SUMPRODUCT formula works best. It returns B correctly in all cases I tested where the others return "" if the match is the leading characters in A.

you don't need SUMPRODUCT.
That is enough to get the result:

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND($F$1,A2)),B2,"")

In the other formulas you have a placeholder (asterix) also in front of
the substring. If the substring begins with the first character you get
an error.
FIND works in all cases.


Regards
Claus B.
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