limit lookup search to left three places
One way:
=VLOOKUP(LEFT(A1,3),B1:C25,2,0)
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HTH,
RD
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"roger" wrote in message
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I need to do a look up based on the first three places in the reference cell
a1 is cda1428a I want the vlookup to return the data based on the cda only.
How do you do this?
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