Approximate match

giddyup43

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Hi. I have a list of upc codes, which should be 12 digits. Unfortunately, some digits have been dropped while doing data entry.
I would like to compare these 11 digit upc's to a 'good' list, which contains the upcs they way they're supposed to be - basically doing a vlookup where one character is not exact.
Once I finish with the 11 digit list, I also have a list of 10 digit upcs which could have dropped 2 characters, I'm not sure. I would like to check it against the 'good' list.
Can someone please help me with this?
I tried using the fuzzy lookup add-in from excel, but either I don't know exactly how to use it, or my files were too large, and it froze.
Any help would be much appreciated!
 

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