You could enter this in C1 and copy down:

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH($A$1,B1))
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HTH,

RD
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"frosterrj" wrote in message
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Oh, and the col a is actually a range as well, if that matters...

Thanks,
Robert

"frosterrj" wrote:

Is it possible to use the vlookup function when what you are trying to
match
is a substring (partial match) of the table-array?

For example:
col a col b
1 pizza Many pizzas

I want to return a "true" when I do vlookup(a1, b1:b100,1,false), but I
dont
know which function to use or where to get the lookup to find the text
string
in a1.

Thanks,
Robert