VLookup Not Searching the entire cell for Match

[Guest]

My VLookup does not search the entire cell for a match. The cell contains a
description of items. I.E. if "Battery" is in first position it matches, if
"AAA Battery" it does not find it as a match. Here is the VLookup i'm using:


=IF(ISERR(IF(SEARCH(VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1),G2058)>=1,VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1)))=TRUE,"",IF(SEARCH(VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1),G2058)>=1,VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1)))

What do I need to add to have the lookup search the entire lenght of cell?

 

[Franz Verga]

Nel post *LAP* ha scritto:

My VLookup does not search the entire cell for a match. The cell
contains a description of items. I.E. if "Battery" is in first
position it matches, if "AAA Battery" it does not find it as a match.
Here is the VLookup i'm using:


=IF(ISERR(IF(SEARCH(VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1),G2058)>=1,VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1)))=TRUE,"",IF(SEARCH(VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1),G2058)>=1,VLOOKUP(G2058,'DESC
TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1)))

What do I need to add to have the lookup search the entire lenght of
cell?

VLOOKUP search a value or a text in a cell. For this function "Battery" and
"AAA Battery" are two different values, this is the reason why you don't
succeed.

Maybe You should try in a different way...


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(I'm not sure of names of menus, options and commands, because
translating from the Italian version of Excel...)

Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy

 

[Guest]

Try:

VLOOKUP("*" & G2058 & "*",'DESC TABLE'!$A$1:$A$94,1)

 

[Don Guillett]

Not in order. Look in the help index for VLOOKUP to see your error in the
missing parameter.