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Default Wildcard lookup

You could also do this with a non CSE formula

=IF(SUMPRODUCT(1-ISERR(SEARCH(applications!A$2:A$8,A2))),LOOKUP(2^1 5,FIND(applications!A$2:A$8,A2),applications!A$2:A $8),"")

"Max" wrote:

Glad it helped, Mary-Lou.
Thanks for the feedback
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"MLK" wrote in message
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Thanks Max! You are the best! This works perfectly. I have struggled
for
days on this.

Much appreciated.

Thanks again, Mary-Lou