Your post is cut off, it ends with

"Example: word docuement has "table four is next to table three"
in excel I have a column"

Nevertheless as far as I know you can't do vlookup in Word at all, you need
to copy it over to excel

2. you can use wildcards in a vlookup

=VLOOKUP("*"&A1&"*",Table,2,FALSE)

as an example



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"pam" wrote in message
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I have a table in Word that has many rows and cells with text in it.

I have a column of text in excel.

I would like to get in excel the information from the work document of
just
the text that is found in my excel column.

I tried vlookup but the document in word may have a sentence in it and
vlook
look at a whole cell not part of it.

Thanks for the help very much.

Example: word docuement has "table four is next to table three"
in excel I have a column