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K_ONE_ILL
Feb 26, 2019Copper Contributor
Searching and matching phone numbers in a list against spreadsheet data.
Hi, I have some data (3000 lines) which contains a lot of text within cells and within that data are phone numbers and post codes etc. On another tab I have a long list of phone numbers, about 150 or...
K_ONE_ILL
Feb 26, 2019Copper Contributor
Hi Twifoo, thanks for the comment, I have attempted it now with wild card, but it gives error in equation, does this look like it should work?
=VLOOKUP(*A2*,'Data File'!A:B,2,)
thanks.
Twifoo
Feb 27, 2019Silver Contributor
Your formula should return your expected result unless your lookup_value is not available, wherein it returns #N/A error.
- K_ONE_ILLFeb 27, 2019Copper Contributor
Hi Twifoo et al,
the equation does actually work, the thing that is limiting it is that the vlookup seems to have a limit of only the first 255 characters in the cell..... is this an actual thing? seems crazy to me! and super annoying that the error makes no mention that this is why......
anyone out there know if there is a way of overiding the 255 max limit?
Thanks.
- TwifooFeb 27, 2019Silver ContributorYou can use COUNTIF with wildcard to count the instances of the lookup_value, then use the result as the array argument of INDEX.
- K_ONE_ILLFeb 27, 2019Copper Contributor
dont suppose someone would have an example if this is my original equation>
=VLOOKUP("*"&A2&"*",'Data File'!A:B,2,FALSE)thanks in advance...