Thanks so much Rick! I used your formula and it worked.
I'm so stress free, I am leaving work early!!

Thanks again!
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Candace


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

Assuming you have header rows so the names and associated data start on Row
2, try putting this formula in some column on Sheet 1 (starting on Row 2)
and copy it down...

=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(A2&"*",Sheet2!A$2:Sheet2!A$1500 0,0)),INDEX(Sheet2!B$2:Sheet2!B$15000,MATCH(A2&"*" ,Sheet2!A$2:Sheet2!A$15000,0)),"<<Not
On List")

I wasn't sure what you wanted to do if the name was not on the list, so I
flagged it with this... "<<Not On List"... change the message to suit your
needs. Does this do what you wanted?

Rick


"Candace@UH" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your response:

Sheet 1 has the attendees names appearing in Column A as - Last, First
Sheet 2 has Column A with all employees in the company and Column B has
the
coordinating "approvers" appearing as - Last, First+Middle Initial

(as a side note -In sheet 1, I used the text to column function to
seperate
last and first name)

I am trying to do two things:
See if the attendees name in Sheet 1 is listed in Sheet 2
If yes, return the name of the Approver

Sheet 1 Sheet 2

Attendees Employee Approver
Cloud, Mindy Cloud, Mindy L Paper, Moon
Sun, Child Sun, Child F Mark, Question
Right, Left Right, Left Q Me, Help

Thanks again, I hope this detail helps, Im going crazy.
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Candace


"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

A couple of questions. First, do you have the complete name (first and
last
or first, middle and last) all in one cell, or is each name part in its
own
column? Is the only thing you are trying to do is see if the names exist
or
not? Or is there something you are going to do once you find the name?
(By
the way, an indication of column designations for names and any other
information you will be working with would be useful.)

Rick


"Candace@UH" wrote in message
...
Hi al - PLEASE HELP
Here is the situation - I have names of people that attended a design
session in a excel spreadsheet, listed verticaly. I have a seperate
excel
spreadsheet with the "time approver" for each employee in the hospital.

I need to match the attendee with the "time approver". There are about
2000
attendees and I need to look up their names from about 15,000 hospital
employees. The attendee list does not have middle initials but the
"time
approver" list has middle initials.

None of my look up formulas and/orif formulas are working - can you
please
help so I dont have manually match names.

Thanks so much
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Candace