Lots of thanks for all your suggestions
I had tried this particular one and it seems like working fine.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Excel supports wild cards (* and ?, any set of characters and any single
character).

The tilde is used to tell excel that you don't mean the wildcard--you actually
mean that character ~* and ~?.
Since tilde has a special purpose, you have to treat it special too: ~~.

And if your data has asterisks and question marks, you may want something like:

=VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"),
LastMthCost!A2:B3,2,FALSE)

Michelle wrote:

Formula used for LastMthCost is =vlookup(A2,LastMthCost!A2:B3,2,FALSE)
Instead of returning 1.5 but i got 2.5!!!!! Please help

Worksheet: ThisMthCost
A B
1 PartNum LastMthCost
2 M03541224*a 2.5

Worksheet: LastMthCost
A B
1 PartNum LastMthCost
2 M03541224**a 2.5
3 M03541224*a 1.5

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Dave Peterson