Noorain, Thank you, I love using offset and never tried the wild card approach. Two excellent alternatives, thank you.
John On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:42 AM, NOORAIN ANSARI <noorain.ans...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear John, > > Ashish's Solution is Fentastic. > Please see attached sheet with another options. > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:49 PM, John A. Smith <johnasmit...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Esteemed Group, >> >> I would like to know if there is a formula that would allow you to type " >> ian" in a cell and have it look up and find "Giant Wing" in a list of >> unique words. Please see the attached example. >> >> Thank you very much for your help. >> >> John >> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Some important links for excel users: >> 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : >> http://twitter.com/exceldailytip >> 2. Join our LinkedIN group @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 >> 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com >> 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com >> 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com >> >> To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com >> >> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >> Like our page on facebook , Just follow below link >> http://www.facebook.com/discussexcel >> > > > > -- > Thanks & regards, > Noorain Ansari > *http://excelmacroworld.blogspot.com/*<http://excelmacroworld.blogspot.com/> > *http://noorain-ansari.blogspot.com/*<http://noorain-ansari.blogspot.com/> > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Some important links for excel users: > 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : > http://twitter.com/exceldailytip > 2. Join our LinkedIN group @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 > 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com > 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com > 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com > > To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Like our page on facebook , Just follow below link > http://www.facebook.com/discussexcel > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Follow us on TWITTER for tips tricks and links : http://twitter.com/exceldailytip 2. Join our LinkedIN group @ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1871310 3. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 4. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.quickvba.blogspot.com 5. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Like our page on facebook , Just follow below link http://www.facebook.com/discussexcel
