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    lookup and wildcard

    Hi Guys,

    Im trying to see which values contained within col h appear in col b. I have used a lookup with wildcard but it is not returning a value when it should. please see the yellow highlights, these should have been returned.

    Can someone think of a way of overcoming this?

    any ideas?

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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    Those entries are not the same
    Ltd vs Limited

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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    These are not matches - "Untha Uk Ltd*" will not match "Untha Uk". Similar problem with "Limited" versus "Ltd". It will be better if you may remove Ltd and Limited from all data you will lookup but I do not know if it will be perfect.
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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    Try this formula. You should get more results.

    =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(LEFT(H2,FIND(" ",H2)-1)&"*",$B$2:$B$6621,1,0),"Not Found")
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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    hi guys, sorry if i wasnt clear,, i know that there are differences such as Ltd and Limited and thats why i used the wildcard. I thought the wildcard would work in this case. But nope... can you think of a way around this.

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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    Hi Alkey! nice one.... brought back more results - cheers

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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    Glad to be of help. Thanks for the feedback!

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    Re: lookup and wildcard

    You can get few more by combining two formulas

    =IFERROR(VLOOKUP(H2&"*",$B$2:$B$6621,1,0),IFERROR(VLOOKUP(LEFT(H2,FIND(" ",H2)-1)&"*",$B$2:$B$6621,1,0),"Not Found"))

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