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    Matching part of data in a cell

    I am trying to match some data and want to know if i can use a formula to do this.

    From the image attached, i want to use the data in Column N, to match against Column A, to populate Column H with data from Column O.
    Eg, to populate H2, Z_GB_0001 is matches the 1st part of A2 (Z_GB_0001_ST005) so therefore H2 would populate with the data in O2.

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    Re: Matching part of data in a cell

    The image is hardly readable, and it would help if you attached a sample Excel workbook.

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    Hope this helps.

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    Re: Matching part of data in a cell

    Other way round, surely.
    Column N is not matched against column A.
    Instead the first 9 characters of column A are matched against the value in column N and the corresponding value from column O is placed in column H.

    O2 is Auto-Reject which doesn't appear in H2. The value should be Simple Purchase Order from O3 not O2.

    in H2
    =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(LEFT(A2,9),N$2:o$1000,2,0),"*** ERROR - REQUEST_TYPE NOT FOUND ***")
    and copy down the column
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    Ensure you describe your problem clearly, I have little time available to solve these problems and do not appreciate numerous changes to them.

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    Re: Matching part of data in a cell

    That worked.

    Thank you

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