On 23 Oct, 13:31, Pete_UK wrote:
You can use wildcards withVLOOKUP, so you could have:

=VLOOKUP("*"&C1&"*",A$2:B$5,2,0)

where C1 contains 994403.

Note that the table entries where there is a single employee number
(eg 994502) need to be text values in order to get an exact match.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 23, 12:46*pm, wrote:



Hi All

Employee No.......................... Place
99440,994403,994404.............London
99442,994401,994405.............Manchester
994410..................................Leeds
994502..................................York

In above example hpw tovlookuppartofstring?
Each cell has multiple employee no. but i want to lookup single
employee no and it should return place.

e.g. If in above example if ivlookup"994403" then it should return
London

Can I do this?

vlookupfunction returning appropriate value for '994410' & '994502'
but not the rest!!

I tried FIND, SEARCH functions but these to functions are for single
cell and not for array... :(:(

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thanks Roger & Pete for the prompt reply.

It worked!! but as pointed out by Pete the single employee value
should be TEXT now how can i convert it to Text??

I tried TEXT function... but dont really understand wat shout I keep
'format text' parameter??

=TEXT(C1, ???)

or is there any other function to convert number to text?

Thanks again!!
Milind