Hi,
I am trying to design a spreasheet that would help my company identify stock that is under old product codes. Unfortunately our head office loves to change the product codes of our goods at the drop of a hat. For instance:
Product ABC00001 may have a slightly different screw used in its manufacture and so it becomes product ABC00002.
The end result of this is that we end up stock piling equipment, as our sales system is geared up to sell the latest product codes, ignoring the older codes.
Therefore, I have a spreadsheet containing all our products that we currently have in stock, in all our locations, and on another worksheet I have my customers order. I would like to find a way to show all products that I have that start with the same first 7 digits. For example product ABC00002 would look for all products that start with ABC0000 and so on. Information could then be returned via an Index Match formula or something.
I have searched microsoft sites for a solution to what is essentially a simple problem, but with no avail.
Can anyone help?
I am trying to design a spreasheet that would help my company identify stock that is under old product codes. Unfortunately our head office loves to change the product codes of our goods at the drop of a hat. For instance:
Product ABC00001 may have a slightly different screw used in its manufacture and so it becomes product ABC00002.
The end result of this is that we end up stock piling equipment, as our sales system is geared up to sell the latest product codes, ignoring the older codes.
Therefore, I have a spreadsheet containing all our products that we currently have in stock, in all our locations, and on another worksheet I have my customers order. I would like to find a way to show all products that I have that start with the same first 7 digits. For example product ABC00002 would look for all products that start with ABC0000 and so on. Information could then be returned via an Index Match formula or something.
I have searched microsoft sites for a solution to what is essentially a simple problem, but with no avail.
Can anyone help?