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jowell Mariano

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Good day,

I am wondering if anyone can assist me on how to create a formula using VlookUp, 

Trasaction Description Balance
SPAN PUR POS-63388222 000 RAJB 4847xxxxxx6196 R:340898 40.43
SPAN PUR POS-63388212 000 NCB 5888xxxxxx0221 R:570119 40.44

if i type 340898 - result is 40.43 or any part of the Transaction Description it will give exact result.

Need you guidance.

thanks in advance

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Hi jowell

You can try something like

=VLOOKUP("*"&A1&"*",D1:E3,2,FALSE)

where A1 is 340898 and D1:E3 is your range. It uses * has a wildcard.

Please note that the value of A1 must be unique otherwise the formula may not work under all circumstances.

Hope this helps.

Sunny

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Thank you Mr. Sunny,

Ive tried it and it works i find also other formula using concatenate 

=VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE("*",A1,"*"),RANGE,2,FALSE) it might help also others.

Thank you for your assistance.

Have a great day.

Jowell

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Hello,

Actually, the formula provided by Sunny and the formula having CONCATENATE is doing just the same thing. The blog article linked too below gives you a good understanding about it.

https://www.myonlinetraininghu.....tenate-and

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