Check first & last letter from 2 columns against a column of words

malaki1974

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Hello,

I'd like to check if a word contains matching first/last letters from 2 cells. I can't quite get it to work. In fact, it doesn't work at all - I over sold 'quite'.

Eventually I will check MANY words for MANY different first/last matches so I want to automate obviously.

Example data, example code below.

A B C
First Letter Last Letter Possible Words
L N Learn
Loon

AND(IF(LEFT(TRIM(C1),1)=A1,IF(RIGHT(TRIM(C1),1)=B1)))

Again, I will eventually run this with different words per a/b like loon, lean, loren, etc. and then c/e for choose, chase etc.

Thank you for the help/direction.
 
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How about
=AND(LEFT(TRIM(C1))=A1,RIGHT(TRIM(C1))=B1)
 
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You're welcome & thanks for the feedback
This LEFT(TRIM(C1))=A1 will return either TRUE or FALSE so no need for the If functions.
 
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Here is another formula that should work...

=REPLACE(TRIM(C1),2,LEN(TRIM(C1))-2,"")=A$1&B$1
 
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