Unidentical VLOOKUP

[SamuelT]

Hi all,

I'm currently using the below formula to check if a project nam
appears in another spreadsheet:

=IF(VLOOKUP(A4,'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls'!twooffive,1,FALSE)=D4,"Y","")

I have a slight problem though as a number of projects names have extr
words either side of them - thus making the VLOOKUP obsolete. Fo
example - in the documents with the above formula a project appears a
'Newark-On-Trent', however in the file 'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls, i
might appear as 'Newark-on-Trent Broad Street' or even 'Broad Stree
Newark-on-Trent'.

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to my current formula (or anothe
formula altogether) that would allow for these differences in name, bu
still pick it up if (again, for example) 'Newark-On-Trent' appears i
the project name.

Hope that's clear.

TIA,

Samuel

 

[Guest]

add "*"

=IF(VLOOKUP(A4&"*",'Retail Tracker 3.3.xls'!twooffive,1,FALSE)=D4,"Y","")

 

[SamuelT]

Many thanks Muhammed