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    Building a formula to search for partial text

    OK first let me tell you what I have, and thank you if you can help;

    Excel 2010

    Single workbook with 2 Sheets

    Let me give a more simple example

    Sheet 1

    A / B / C / D / E / F

    1 Ran 34 45 49 (Formula) <---- Searches Sheet 2 column A for this Rows B column (Ran) finds any partial match (Orange) and returns the value of that rows H column (75)
    2 Rack 33 34 50 (Formula) <---- Same thing here so it looks for a partial match with "Rack" which finds "Track" and returns "66"
    3 Dog 31 30 50 (Formula)

    Sheet 2

    A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H

    Tree Cat 233 300 21 20 15 59
    Frog Cat 233 300 21 20 15 77
    Track Cat 233 300 21 20 15 66
    Orange Cat 233 300 21 20 15 75
    Free Bit 233 300 21 20 15 65
    Last edited by macross; 10-30-2012 at 01:16 PM.

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    Re: Building a formula to search for partial text

    To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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    Re: Building a formula to search for partial text

    macross,

    Attached is an example file based on the criteria you described.
    In 'Sheet1' cell F1 and copied down is this formula:
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    Hope that helps,
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    Re: Building a formula to search for partial text

    Quote Originally Posted by tigeravatar View Post
    macross,

    Attached is an example file based on the criteria you described.
    In 'Sheet1' cell F1 and copied down is this formula:
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    This seems to work as I had hoped, thank you.

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