I'd use a helper column that gets the last 6 characters of the column 1
data.

Use
=right(a1,6)

"Des" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a lookup where I am entering a 6 account number digit
but my 2 col lookup database has 16 number digits in col 1. I want my
lookup to ignore the last 10 digits in this table and give me the
corresponding text from col2 in table.