Search Text Cell For Wildcard Match

Feb 27, 2007

I am looking for a way, to search a cell that has a no more than 4 words sperated by a space, and if a match display it.

I had something like this:

IF(Search=LocationList,"true","False"

So the Locationlist is a list of locations that is brought from another sheet with this:

=Addresses!A3&" "&Addresses!B3

and i need to search the cells with in LocationList (about 4000 cells) for a match... is this possbile ?

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