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Default 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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