Special Vlookup

mbendit

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  1. 365
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The true/false aspect of the vlookup is giving me some problems. I'd like the lookup to return values based off the first 4 characters in the cell while still returning the entirety of the characters in the cell of the column that I'm referencing. So, in the example below, in my spreadsheet (an upload from a payroll provider) I only have 1295. I'd like the vlookup to return the entire account number 1295-UNBILLED RECEIVABLES.
EX:
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any help would be appreciated.
 

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You can use Vlookup with wild cards
Excel Formula:
=vlookup(C2&"*",A2:A1000,1,0)
 
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With the example I used it will the 1st value in col A that starts with the contents of C2.
 
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+Fluff v2.xlsm
ABCD
1
21295-abc12951295-abc
31296-abc12981298-abc
41297-abc
51298-abc
6
Main
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
D2D2=VLOOKUP(C2&"*",A2:A1000,1,0)
D3D3=VLOOKUP(C3&"*",A2:A1000,1,0)
 
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+Fluff v2.xlsm
ABCD
1
21295-abc12951295-abc
31296-abc12981298-abc
41297-abc
51298-abc
6
Main
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
D2D2=VLOOKUP(C2&"*",A2:A1000,1,0)
D3D3=VLOOKUP(C3&"*",A2:A1000,1,0)
here is the formula i used

=VLOOKUP(A:A&"*",'[DV COA 12.1.20.xlsx]Sheet1'!$C:$C,1)

Here are the values it returned, I'm off somehow:

1608049956314.png
 
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You have missed the last argument, so it's doing an approximate match.
 
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You have missed the last argument, so it's doing an approximate match.
when i leave in the last argument it returns no values.
=VLOOKUP(A:A&"*",'[DV COA 12.1.20.xlsx]Sheet1'!$C:$C,1,0)

1608050575303.png
 
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do you have any values that start with 3034-00?
 
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