Using the ~ character in Excel

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Guest

Hi,

Anytime I use the ~ character in Excel, I am unable to use
functions such as VLOOKUP. Excel seems unable to identify
the ~ character during it's LOOKUP function.
Any suggestions ???

Thanks
 
Excel supports wild cards:
* = any string of characters
? = any one character

and the way you tell excel that you want to use an asterisk is to prefix it with
~ (~*).

And since that ~ is a special character, you have to tell excel to use two when
you want to use 1. ~ becomes ~~.

So this could be a formula that "fixes" all 3 of those special characters:

=VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~","~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"),
Sheet2!$A$1:$E$999,4,FALSE)
 
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