finding a text of 2 words in wrapped content in cell from another sheet

satish78

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Trying to find text of 2 words like city and state "dallas, TX" from sheet2 in sheet1 ColumnA(anywhere in wrapped text)

example of text in Sheet1 columnA

Robert is living in dallas, TX with his aunt.

I tried vlookup but it only search exact text in cell not somewhere in wrapped cell content/text.

Hope someone understand this query.
 

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This sort of matching can be somewhat tricky/unreliable - see example below.

However, to answer your question, you could try using wildcards like this
=VLOOKUP("*dallas, TX*", ...

However, as well as (possibly) finding "Robert is living in dallas, TX with his aunt." it may instead find "Tina is living in Lake Dallas, TX with her uncle.", which of course is the wrong city.
 
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Here I have range of "city, state"(I1:I75954) then, how can I use Wildcards in this case.
I'm not sure how this relates to post 1?
Why not give 5-10 rows of varied dummy sample data and the expected results from that sample data?
 
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