Lookup With Wildcards In The Middle Of Search Term
Feb 5, 2014
I have a 14 000-item list of product codes that are generated from different attributes. What I am trying to do, is to create a cover sheet where the user can select attributes from dropdown lists and get the first matching product code. I have tried using index/match, but I am struggling with wildcard lookup.
Example of generated product code:Cell A1:
ABX**J
Here, AB is the product group, X is the pressure class, ** is material (which is, for the example, unknown), and J is the end connection. What I now want to do, is to look in the long list of codes and find the first match:
I am trying to use a lookup formula to search for a word in a column, and return the value of the column directly to its left. I know that this cannot be done using the vlookup function, and I am not able to move the columns around. Is there another possibility? In plain English then, I would like cell E2 to look up the value of D2 in column B2:B4 and return the relevant value in column A2:A4.
I am building somewhat of a rudimentary search engine that looks for a name, address or unique identifier, using an Index Match formula that searches with a wild card:
=INDEX(Name,MATCH("*"&F3&"*",Name,0))
"Name": is the defined name for column C on a separate sheet. F3: is "search field"
The current formula (above), only returns the first match. The source data is only 927 lines so not overly large. I would like to have an additional page that will show the potential results from the wildcard search via a formula. Therefore needing results; 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. from the Index Match. I have searched high and low for solutions but I have found none in regards to retrieving multiple results from a wildcard search, only on a specific term.
I'm trying to use wildcards in the Search formula and it isn't working the way I thought it would. I'm trying to use the following two strings:
????1234
compared to
1234????
Shouldn't search find these two strings the same since given the wildcards? Or am I missing something? If I use the above, I receive a VALUE error rather than a match.
When I use a lookup to look for "*"&A1&"*" where A1 contains "AB" I get a value not available error despite the fact that in the postcode table there are loads of postcodes beginning with "AB...". Is it the multiple entries of "AB" in the lookup table that will be messing this search up?
I have a workbook (Data) that I am entering "job title" into column G. Based on key words in the job title I am then manually entering "level" into Column V.
I have created a worksheet (Level Matrix) that has the following
Column A = Job title Column B - Level Column C = Exceptions
What I have in column A are the key words - as an example *Director* (wildcard Director Wildcard); in column B is the word Director
What I want the system to do is look for the word DIRECTOR anyplace in the job title entered into Column G of the data worksheet (hence why I have the title between wildcards. IF it finds it then I want to add the level automatically (from Column B of the Level Matrix worksheet).
However if the compare finds any of the words in the title that match any of the words in the Exceptions Column (Column C of the Level Matrix) then I DO NOT WANT To autoload the Director level- it would load DNA. As an example- an Art Director would not load "Director" becasue the word "art" is one of the words in the exceptions column of the Level Matrix.
I am trying to set a file name as a string to use it as an attachment. The user inputs a number into a textbox. That number is used to locate the file in location. But the file name is different with each file. So im trying to do something like
"C:Desktop*TextBox1*.docx"
Whereas the actual file name is "C:DesktopMCJC RFI 1 MISSING ROOM NUMBERS.docx"
The location "C:Desktop" will always remain the same as will ".docx". I have everything else working just fine.
I have a list of rules on how to group account numbers. An example is below. I have a very long list of full account numbers (no wildcards). There are roughly 75 rules on how to group the over 40,000 accounts. I want to use the vlookup to determine what group each full account number (always 11 characters) would belong to? It seems that the vlookup isn't treating the ?'s as wildcards. I can use the full account number rules with the wildcards in the cell in the sumif function though.
So ultimately I would like to have my list of account numbers like 40000000000 and 40000000001 know that they belong in group 1 based on the rule table below.
I am trying to calculate what date 2/3 of a lease would be. If start date is 5/8/13 and expiration date is 3/19/12 on a 36 month lease, how do I find out the date 2/3rds into it?
I am trying to sort first by year then by term (i.e. summer, fall, spring) for a school year. I know how to do custom sort so i set up a list. The problem comes here:
Because there is no spring 2005, the last entry it sees is summer so it puts fall 2005 when in reality i want summer 2005 next. How do i sort so that any time there is a new year in the year column, it starts the sort over with spring in the term column?
I am writing a equation in if statement...Is there a procedure to select the the second and third letter from a sentence and write a condition based on that...
I mean, say if I had 1XY in cell A1 and I want to write a if condition based on the XY from 1XY term, how can i do that?
I need a formula to calculate the end date of a monthly term when the start date is not the 1st of the month. This is to show the proration for the first month only, so the end date should be the last day of the initital month/yr. Then when showing the rates for each period, all subsequent periods would start on the 1st of the month. For example, start date 8/16/06, initial end date needs to be 8/31/06. The current forumla I am using is: ....
we still run reports on tiny term emulator v4.3.1720 is there a way to have each report export to excel like this report each colunm each row in there own cell here is a example of a report
I have looked at previous v lookup questions however was unable to do a comparison to the queries which I have. Hope someone is able to help. Sending spreadsheet to hopefully clarify
Sheet 1 = downloaded orders
Sheet 2 = present Customer database
Q1 - sheet 2 column E - can I make the address show without the return stroke (square symbol)?
Q2 - how do I return in sheet 1 column b and c the information held on sheet 2 column b and c. I have tried using the post code as the look up but it is only returning around a 30% find, can you use post code and rest of the address (post codes could be partially different as off 2 independant databases) to find a true match, or at least increase the 30% find considerably.
I looked for a long time through the past entries and couldn't find an answer for this specific situation. I have a spreadsheet with multiple occurances of names in column A
A green green green blue blue white white white
and in column D I need a total of how many occurances of that name there are. that total needs to be listed in that row for that name specifically. There are many names on there currently and many will be added via copy/paste from another spreadsheet so i need one formula to paste into each row to cover ALL recurring names. Basically i need to enter in column D "=COUNTIF(A:A,"a term that would total the reoccurance of each name from the A column the corresponding D cell")
A D green 3 green 3 green 3 blue 2 blue 2 white 3 white 3 white 3
The goal is to be able to copy/paste new entries into the spreadsheet, sort them by name, and have them automatically update the totals in each row even if they are new names. i guess it would be a "number of occurance of each term" code to cover all terms.
I'm currently trying to put together a search function of sort onto an excel document to look for entries of "Y" based on the choices in a drop down list to populate a list of names that have a "Y" next to them. I've searched the net and read up on IF, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP commands but I can't quite string something together. An example of what I am trying to achieve is below;
In the attached sheet I am trying to use the formula below but am getting a #NA error. I have narrowed the problem down to the use of the SEARCH and LEFT functions that I am using to determine the lookup value of the VLOOKUP formula.
what I am doing wrong? If I substitute the SEARCH and LEFT function with the number "14" it works just fine. You can find examples of both in cells B29 and C29 on the rename tab.
I am looking to write a search function that searches through a whole document. The only examples I can find are of a could different search functions but they all are searching an specified individual column and even then I didn't really understand them. My worksheet has 6 different columns which are all different labels for a certain tool. I want the user to be able to input any of those 6 labels and have all the information in that row be returned.
I could really use some excel function. Within my office, we work with several hundred files. Each employee is assigned files based on the last two digits of the file number. What I need is a way to identify what file is assigned to which employee based on the term digits of the file.
So for example, I have the following list of files:
I'm able to do a formula to get the term digits (meaning the last two numbers), but i'd like to have another column that can put names based on the term digit column. For example, Tom might work 00-04, Sally works 05-09, Greg works 10-15, Lucy works 16-21.. etc
I came across the below IF formula that is exactly what i need, except it only works for two associates and not the multiple that i need.. but it looks to be a good starting point nonetheless.
------------------------------ =IF(C2<50,"Sheryl","Lisa"). You should enclose Sheryl and Lisa with quotation marks as these are string values.
You can also use (if A2 is where the Loan # is):
=IF(Right(A2,2)*1<50,"Sheryl","Lisa")
The formula will acquire the last 2 digits of the loan and check it if it's for Sheryl's or Lisa's. -----------------------------
I'm using excel 2007 for analyzing my students grades. I ran two exams and look for a way to compute a final grade score, which should be equal to the grade of the first exam for those students who took just the first exam and should be equal to the second score for those students who took the second exam. (Clarification: for those students who took both terms, their final grade should be equal to their score in the second term).
I need to produce a summary of the monthly spend with parts suppliers for a number of vehicles, with each vehicle having it's own worksheet. The suppliers' names are in column C with the costs in column H.
So what I need to do is sum the results of column H on each worksheet when the supplier's name (which is on the same row) matches "Triple 7" and it's in the same month. The idea is to produce a sheet which displays the total spend each month with our suppliers.
I have two sheets, one of which contains film names and the other contains our tag structure for our website (which is a list of tags, their keywords and the primary parent channel they live under).
What I am trying to do is search the film titles and if any of the words match either the tag name or keywords then return the relevant channel.
Example:
Sheet 1 - Films How To Apply Bridal Makeup How To Fight A Donkey How To Write Excel Formulae
Sheet 2 - Tags Channel / Tag / Keywords Tech - Microsoft - windows vista xp word excel Tech - Computers - internet pc Tech - MP3 Players - iPod Zune
So, for film 3 on Sheet 1 it would recognise the word Excel in the keyword list and return the channel Tech.
I have a UDF for a lookup_occurrence formula (thanks to Dave), and I was wondering if it was possible to tweak the range it looks at with if statements.
I have a formula like this =Lookup_Occurence(B13, INDIRECT($N$5), 1,1,5) where N5 says exit card 1.
I need it to only look at a certain rows within exit card 1 depending on the value entered in I5.
If value I5 says Period_1 it will only look in rows 12:46.
If value I5 says Period_2 it will only look in rows 48:82 etc.
I believe I need to modify the xl look part of the code with if statements.
Below is the code. I am wondering if I can replace the xlLook line with nested if statements. If I5="Period_1 then rows 12:46" etc.
Function Lookup_Occurence(To_find, Table_array As Range, _ Look_in_col As Long, Offset_col, Occurrence As Long, _ Optional Case_sensitive As Boolean, Optional Part_cell_match As Boolean)
Dim lLoop As Long Dim rFound As Range Dim xlLook As XlLookAt Dim lOcCheck As Long
Also I have a Userform with 2 ComboBoxes named "ComboBox1" and "ComboBox2". Values in ComboBox1 is "Pull my pants", "Eat my shorts", "Socks for everyone".
What I would like to do is to search though column A and look for any of these textstrings in my selection in ComboBox1 and return the value from column B in column C.
Example: "Pull my pants" is selected in ComboBox1 then the value "pants" should be found in column A and value in column B (25) should be entered in cell C2.
I am fairly new to VBA and have spend hours searching Google and found some formulas like InStr and VLookup. My problem is that I am not sure if these statements will do the job and how to combine them.
I'm using the sum if function but can't get the correct answer because the text that I'm searching for includes * which I assume is the wildcard symbol. I'm looking to sum on the text integrated projects* but it's returning a value which also includes integrated projects* VAT.
I don't want to have to change the text (e.g. by using find and replace). Is there any way excel can incluce just the exact text I need (including *)?
