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    Finding a match from one cell to another

    Need some help if possible on something which I just cannot figure out.

    Column A - Column B
    PART1234 - Today the sunshine is PART1234 240mm Raining - TRUE
    PART1234 - Today the sunshine is PART1234S 240mm Raining - FALSE
    PART789S - Today the sunshine is PART789S 240mm Raining - TRUE
    PART789S - Today the sunshine is PART789 240mm Raining - FALSE

    Basically I want to scan a cell and if a certain sequence of text matches like in the example above, it will return 'TRUE'

    Is this even possible?

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    Re: Finding a match from one cell to another

    Starting in row 1 and fill down:

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    However, in your second example "PART1234" is found in the string in column B. If you only want to find whole words then maybe this:

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    Re: Finding a match from one cell to another

    Why not split the data in differant columns (with e.g. text to column).

    After that analyse the data.
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    Re: Finding a match from one cell to another

    Thank you - the second method works perfectly. Appreciate you taking the time to look into

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    Re: Finding a match from one cell to another

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