I can see how you might justify 1057123 as being "similar" to
10571234, as the first 7 digits are the same (although by that logic
then 1 is similar), but how can you say that 1571234 is similar? Your
logic would dictate that 14, 134, 1234, 11234, 171234 are also
similar, and if digits can be missing from the second position
onwards, then why not from the third position, or fourth position etc?
There would then be a very large number of "similar" numbers to test
out.

Pete

On May 24, 9:58 pm, John wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to do a lookup to find similar
numbers from one Excel worksheet to another, and also similar values?

So I am not looking for a number that is exactly the same in the first
instance but might be similar e.g.

10571234 is the number on worksheet one

Below might be numbers from worksheet two that I would want it to
return a match for:

10571453
1571234
1057123
10571234
10571243

Would all be numbers where part or all of the number is similar or the
same as the number from worksheet one

And for values, is there a lookup you can do to return anything within
a certain percentage range of the value?

E.g. if you wanted anything returned with a 10% tolerance e.g. If
£1.00 is on worksheet one it would return anything within 10% of that
from worksheet two?

Cheers very much for any help.

John