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Pull content of cells with text that ends in specific characters out of several columns

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    Pull content of cells with text that ends in specific characters out of several columns

    Hi,

    I am trying to pull content of cells with text that ends in specific characters out of several columns of data. What I want is colum G to display the one name in the row that has TREE at the end. I am trying something with RIGHT(XX, 4) but can't get a lookup to work for it. can you help, here is an example file...
    Book1.xlsx
    Last edited by caliskier; 04-05-2012 at 04:57 PM.

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    Re: Pull content of cells with text that ends in specific characters out of several column

    Try This out and let me know how it works for you

    =INDEX(B3:E3,MATCH("*TREE",B3:E3,0))
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    Re: Pull content of cells with text that ends in specific characters out of several column

    Also,

    =HLOOKUP("*TREE",B3:E3,1,0)
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    Re: Pull content of cells with text that ends in specific characters out of several column

    Thanks, I used the HLOOKUP one, but I am sure the index would have worked as well. I did not know you could use lookups that way.

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