I think you are getting your rows and columns mixed up - rows are
numbered and columns are referred to by letters (usually). It makes it
difficult to follow your description if you use these terms
incorrectly.

Anyway, look in Excel Help for the functions LEFT, MATCH, INDEX,
VLOOKUP and ISNA, all of which will be helpful to you in this task.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jan 31, 3:34*pm, NeedExcelHelp07
wrote:
I have 3 worksheets of data. The master worksheet is called ipc. The other
two worksheets are called, vb and pb. *
Each row cell is 14 characters long.
IPC is the master worksheet and I want to match the data in row D up to the
first 8 chracters in worksheets vb and/or pb. In column f in worksheet ipc,
if there is a match between the first 8 characters in row d in vb or pb, I
want row d from the match row to be displayed on row f. If there's no match,
it can say FALSE.

I'm looking for any formula or function to make this work.

Thanks!