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Unidentical VLOOKUP
Hi all, I'm currently using the below formula to check if a project name appears in another spreadsheet: =IF(VLOOKUP(A4,'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls'!twooffive,1,FALSE)=D4,"Y","") I have a slight problem though as a number of projects names have extra words either side of them - thus making the VLOOKUP obsolete. For example - in the documents with the above formula a project appears as 'Newark-On-Trent', however in the file 'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls, it might appear as 'Newark-on-Trent Broad Street' or even 'Broad Street Newark-on-Trent'. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to my current formula (or another formula altogether) that would allow for these differences in name, but still pick it up if (again, for example) 'Newark-On-Trent' appears in the project name. Hope that's clear. TIA, SamuelT -- SamuelT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamuelT's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27501 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=573744 |
Unidentical VLOOKUP
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=IF(VLOOKUP(A4&"*",'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls'!twooffive,1,FALSE)=D4,"Y","") "SamuelT" wrote: Hi all, I'm currently using the below formula to check if a project name appears in another spreadsheet: =IF(VLOOKUP(A4,'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls'!twooffive,1,FALSE)=D4,"Y","") I have a slight problem though as a number of projects names have extra words either side of them - thus making the VLOOKUP obsolete. For example - in the documents with the above formula a project appears as 'Newark-On-Trent', however in the file 'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls, it might appear as 'Newark-on-Trent Broad Street' or even 'Broad Street Newark-on-Trent'. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to my current formula (or another formula altogether) that would allow for these differences in name, but still pick it up if (again, for example) 'Newark-On-Trent' appears in the project name. Hope that's clear. TIA, SamuelT -- SamuelT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamuelT's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27501 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=573744 |
Unidentical VLOOKUP
Many thanks Muhammed. -- SamuelT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SamuelT's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=27501 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=573744 |
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