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Excel?, Partical Matching using either macros or excel formula

Nike_Unltd	19 Aug, 2008 - 07:08 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 13 Aug, 2008 Posts: 4 My Contributions	Hey guys, i am trying to see if the data from list A exist in List B. the problem is, VLOOKUP matches exact what it is asked for. it is not numerical data, its text. list A has like Microsoft, Logitech, Apple while list B has Microsoft Business, logitech, INC, Apple computers i dont know how to match them partially. this is what i have: CODE =INDEX('list b'!A:A,MATCH(A5,'list b'!A:A,1)) i found other very complicated ones, but i was unsuccessful at debugging: CODE =INDEX(Sheet2!$B$1:$B$10, MIN(IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(""&Sheet2!$A$1:$A$10&"",A1,0)), ROW(Sheet2!$A$1:$A$10)))) please help me! if i am in the wrong place, please redirect me
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NickDMax	RE: Excel? 20 Aug, 2008 - 06:29 PM Post #2
2B\|\|!2B Joined: 18 Feb, 2007 Posts: 2,858 Thanked: 49 times Dream Kudos: 550 My Contributions	Well I would say you could look at RegEx matching. Excel also has an operator called "LIKE" that is regex-like which you may want to look into.
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