EXCEL: Partial Cell matches in dfrnt sheets

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fairooz Posts 11 Registration date Thursday May 27, 2010 Status Member Last seen September 12, 2012 - Jun 8, 2010 at 01:21 AM
fairooz Posts 11 Registration date Thursday May 27, 2010 Status Member Last seen September 12, 2012 - Jun 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Hello,

I searched a lot and found quite some useful results about searching Partial Cell matches. But if the cells belong to different sheets how do I match them?
For example,

Sheet 1,
A4483 Al Ghandi Electronics

Sheet 2,
A752 Al Ghandi Auto
A753 Al Ghandi General Trading

I want to match the first two words (or first 8 characters) in Sheet1, A4483 with all cells in sheet 2 Column A.

If possible multiple matches will also be good. For now only one will do.
The return needs to be Al Ghandi Auto or both Al Ghandi Auto & Al Ghandi General Trading.

I tried V Look up...its not much of use...character matching would be good I guess.

Any help will be appreciated....kinda urgent

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venkat1926 Posts 1863 Registration date Sunday June 14, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen August 7, 2021 811
Jun 8, 2010 at 05:43 AM
you can use findall control F(edit find)
you need for each of the entries in column A of sheet 1 you need a macro. If you are oomforatable with macros post back

also confirm you are intersted in the first two words of the entries in column A of sheet 1

It would be useful if you can upload a very small extract of your fiels both sheet1 and sheet 2 through www.speedyshare.com with no passwod. You can use finctitious data for security reasons.
fairooz Posts 11 Registration date Thursday May 27, 2010 Status Member Last seen September 12, 2012 12
Jun 8, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Macro would be very useful...

I can't upload any file from work...coz all these sites (like speedyshare) are blocked.