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I have a complex Lookup question that I can't solve ... can anyone help!?
(without resorting to macros). It's almost like a reverse of normal Lookups... My 'Data' worksheet contains hundreds of rows. For simplicity here, I've just shown a few rows from one column (let's say the following is in cells A1:A6): Acct nbr.txt Cust Name.xls Notes.txt All acct nbrs.txt Cust nbr.xls Ac number.txt The 'Lookup' worksheet contains a 2 column table like this (again I've shown only a few rows, so let's say the following is in cells A1:B4): Acct n Account number ac n Account number cust Customer Name cust nb Customer Number What I need in cells B1:B6 of 'Data' is for it to check each value in column A of 'Lookup', and if that value is WITHIN the value in column A of 'Data', to display the corresponding value from column B of 'Lookup'. It should be case insensitive, and also show an error if there are 2 matches. Examples should help explain!... below is a snapshot of how the A1:B5 of 'Data' should end up, based on the 'Lookup' data above: Acct nbr.txt Account number Cust Name.xls Customer Name Notes.txt All acct nbrs.txt Account number Cust nbr.xls [Error] Ac number.txt Account number I.e. for most of these it found a single match, except Notes.txt (there was no match), and Cust nbr.xls (returned an Error because in the 'Lookup' table, both 'cust' and 'cust nb' were matches). Hope it makes sense ... would love a good answer! :-) |
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