This only finds the first character. That's not what is needed. The
function needs to check the availability of any of the nth word in the
sentence. So in the example, ANNA GRATTON LTD should have returned GRATTON.
Your formula only looks up the first word.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:18 PM, vijayajith VA <vijayajith...@gmail.com>wrote:
> HI Santhuash,
>
>
>
> =IFERROR(IF(FIND(" ",A2)-1 > 1,VLOOKUP(LEFT(A2,FIND("
> ",A2)-1)&"*",Database!A:A,1,0),""),"")
>
> Try this. hope it helps you, Thanks
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Santhosh Kumar M K <mks....@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Friends,
>>
>> Need a help to create macro in a "Data" tab where it can recongnize a
>> word either by first/middle/last name if not with full name.
>>
>> for ex - "SHANGHAI ERICSSON SIMTEK " in "Database" tab should help to
>> match the data even by recognizing any one word of this full name from
>> "Data" tab and incase if it matches then it should reflect in column B of
>> "Data" tab
>>
>> Please find attachment.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Santhosh
>>
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