How do I look up variations of spellings in a column list and return the correct value shown in the first row

[daniel_san]

Currently fielding a question in a survey which allows free form responses of different brands, as a result there are a lot of misspellings and random responses. I am building a column list of these misspellings and random responses with the correct spellings/brand as a header of the column. I have multiple columns of lists side by side (as below). I'm looking for a formula which can look for whatever value has been written in the range of responses and return the correct corresponding value as shown in the header. Is this possible? I tried index match but it would only let me use match on one row of data instead of all of it. Hlookup doesn't work as it looks up for the first instance of a word (e.g. 'no' would match to both 'no idea' which sits under "don't know" and just 'no' which sits under "None"). I'm tearing my hair out here! Thanks in advance.

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Don't Know[/TD]
[TD]Boohoo.com[/TD]
[TD]Very[/TD]
[TD]Amazon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]dk[/TD]
[TD]boohoo[/TD]
[TD]Very.com[/TD]
[TD]amazon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]dunno[/TD]
[TD]boohoo.co.uk[/TD]
[TD]very.co.uk[/TD]
[TD]amazen[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]dont know[/TD]
[TD]BOOHOO.com[/TD]
[TD]VERY[/TD]
[TD]amazon.com[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]no idea[/TD]
[TD]bohoo[/TD]
[TD]vry[/TD]
[TD]amazon.co.uk[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]not sure[/TD]
[TD]booho[/TD]
[TD]veery[/TD]
[TD]AMAZONN[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[steve the fish]

You would find it easier to create a list like:

[TABLE="width: 264"]
<colgroup><col><col></colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD]dk[/TD]
[TD]Don't Know[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]dunno[/TD]
[TD]Don't Know[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]dont know[/TD]
[TD]Don't Know[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]no idea[/TD]
[TD]Don't Know[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]not sure[/TD]
[TD]Don't Know[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]boohoo[/TD]
[TD]Boohoo.com[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]boohoo.co.uk[/TD]
[TD]Boohoo.com[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]BOOHOO.com[/TD]
[TD]Boohoo.com[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]bohoo[/TD]
[TD]Boohoo.com[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]booho[/TD]
[TD]Boohoo.com[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Very.com[/TD]
[TD]Very[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]very.co.uk[/TD]
[TD]Very[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]VERY[/TD]
[TD]Very[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]vry[/TD]
[TD]Very[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]veery[/TD]
[TD]Very[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]amazon[/TD]
[TD]Amazon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]amazen[/TD]
[TD]Amazon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]amazon.com[/TD]
[TD]Amazon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]amazon.co.uk[/TD]
[TD]Amazon[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]AMAZONN[/TD]
[TD]Amazon
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

then you can just use VLOOKUP.

 

[daniel_san]

Thanks for the tip, I don't know why I didn't think of doing it this way in the first place. pretty **** obvious really! cheers