This does work however I need it to pick up Y if both the christian and the
surname is matches but the other worksheet has a middle name and the other
worksheet doesn't. At the moment with the formula you have given me it picks
up if for eg brown and it would say Y to browne.
Is this possible.

"Max" wrote:

The earlier " Isnumber(search(...)) " term in the expression should appear
like this:
... ISNUMBER(SEARCH(TRIM(A1)&" ",Sheet2!A$1:A$100))

You probably need to correct the line break when you paste it into the
formula bar
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