Near Vlookup Help??

[cameronb]

I have two lists of data, both include lists of companies. I am looking for a formula which will return an 80% match, or closest mathc.

So for example:

Sheet 1
Column A
Britvic Ltd
Pepsi Co
BP Ltd
Coca Cola


Sheet 2
Column A Column B
Britvic Ltd "Formula"
Pepsi
BP
Coca Cola Ltd

Cell B1 above would Britvic Ltd and B2 would return Pepsi Co.

I have tried using Vlookup with False as match type and it will return a completely different cell. I have also combined INDEX with Match and got similar results.

I have 8,000 rows of data and before I start doing this manually using filters, does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[VoG]

Try a fuzzy lookup http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?p=974873#974873

 

[SuperFerret]

You'd need to use TRUE as your match type

FALSE looks for an exact match, TRUE (or omitted) looks for the nearest

 

[Richard Schollar]

Depending on what values you have in the two ranges you may be able to use a compund lookup to generate the results (quite probably won't generate all of them though) - in the following assume the ranges are on different sheets:

<b>Excel 2002</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th><th>D</th><th>E</th><th>F</th><th>G</th><th>H</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Sheet 1</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Sheet 2</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">2</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Column A</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Lookup Formula</td><td style="font-weight: bold;text-align: right;;"></td><td style="font-weight: bold;text-align: right;;"></td><td style="font-weight: bold;text-align: right;;"></td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Column A</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Lookup Formula</td><td style="font-weight: bold;;">Consolidator Formula</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">3</td><td style=";">Britvic Ltd</td><td style=";">Britvic Ltd</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">Britvic Ltd</td><td style=";">Britvic Ltd</td><td style=";">Britvic Ltd</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">4</td><td style=";">Pepsi Co</td><td style=";">Pepsi</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">Pepsi</td><td style="text-align: right;;">#N/A</td><td style=";">Pepsi Co</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">5</td><td style=";">BP Ltd</td><td style=";">BP</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">BP</td><td style="text-align: right;;">#N/A</td><td style=";">BP Ltd</td></tr><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">6</td><td style=";">Coca Cola</td><td style="text-align: right;;">#N/A</td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style="text-align: right;;"></td><td style=";">Coca Cola Ltd</td><td style=";">Coca Cola</td><td style=";">Coca Cola</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">G3</th><td style="text-align:left">=LOOKUP(<font color="Blue">2^15,SEARCH(<font color="Red">$A$3:$A$6,F3</font>),$A$3:$A$6</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">H3</th><td style="text-align:left">=IF(<font color="Blue">ISNA(<font color="Red">G3</font>),INDEX(<font color="Red">$A$3:$A$6,MATCH(<font color="Green">F3,$B$3:$B$6,0</font>)</font>),G3</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">B3</th><td style="text-align:left">=LOOKUP(<font color="Blue">2^15,SEARCH(<font color="Red">$F$3:$F$6,A3</font>),$F$3:$F$6</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />