Hi,

You can use a wildcard

=VLOOKUP("*"&A2&"*",[Book2]Sheet1!$A$1:$B$20,2,FALSE)

so if A2 contains 321127
it will find 321127-00 in book 2.

Mike

"ideasailer" wrote:

I have two wok book. in one there are a lot of nos like
book no1
321127
92117-0002
in other book2
321127-00
0092117-02
how can we use vlook up