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PARTIAL TEXT MATCH SEARCHING FOR THE FIRST 6 CHARACTERS?
Hi. I have two sheets I need to find matches from sheet1 against
sheet2 looking for the first 6 characters only. example: sheet1 sheet2 MATCH RESULTS ABCCOM ABCCOM ABCCOM ABCINCORPORATED XYZCOMPANY XYZCOMPANY XYZCOMPANY MISCOMPANY XYZINCORP XXXCOMPANY can anyone help? |
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PARTIAL TEXT MATCH SEARCHING FOR THE FIRST 6 CHARACTERS?
Hi KLZA
Try: ABCCOM ABCCOM ABCCOM ABCINCORPORATED XYZCOMPANY XYZCOMPANY XYZCOMPANY MISCOMPANY XYZINCORP XXXCOMPANY In XL2000 italian Formula in C2:C5 =SE(VAL.ERRORE(CERCA.VERT(SINISTRA(B2;6)&"*";$A$2: $A$5;1;FALSO));"";CERCA.VERT(SINISTRA(B2;6)&"*";$A $2:$A$5;1;FALSO)) In English; please ceck the functions translation =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(LEFT(B2,6)&"*",$A$2:$A$5,1,FAL SE)),"",VLOOKUP(LEFT(B2,6)&"*",$A$2:$A$5,1,FALSE)) " regards Eliano "KLZA" wrote: Hi. I have two sheets I need to find matches from sheet1 against sheet2 looking for the first 6 characters only. example: sheet1 sheet2 MATCH RESULTS ABCCOM ABCCOM ABCCOM ABCINCORPORATED XYZCOMPANY XYZCOMPANY XYZCOMPANY MISCOMPANY XYZINCORP XXXCOMPANY can anyone help? |
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