partial string lookup across multiple columns

[goong522]

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hi all - Happy New Year.
I was hoping the Excel guru's on this forum can assist me with my issue.

I currently have the above worksheet. Table would be defined as A1:D3. I'm looking for a formula to put in cell F1 that will take the value of cell E1 (which is "Dogs"), and look for a partial match in table A1:D3 (look for any instance that might have "Dogs", an return the corresponding value of column A. So looking for cell E2- instances of "Dogs", it would cell D1 ("dogs") and return cell A1 - "dog"

thank you in advance for the help!

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

THANK YOU SO MUCH ALADIN! IT WORKS!

You are welcome.

I have a follow up question - my possible table (which is A1:D3 in my example) will most likely expand to A1:D2000. when I try to adjust the formula you posted above, I get a lot of mismatches (incorrect results). and is there a way to add something to the formula so if no matches (or partial matches) are found, it would result in "no matches"?

You can wrap up the formula in an IFERROR call... Still control+shift+enter:

=IFERROR(LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,1/MMULT(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E1,$A$1:$D$3))+0,TRANSPOSE(COLUMN($A$1:$D$3)^0)),$A$1:$A$3),"no match found")

I

 

[goong522]

You are welcome.




You can wrap up the formula in an IFERROR call... Still control+shift+enter:

=IFERROR(LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,1/MMULT(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E1,$A$1:$D$3))+0,TRANSPOSE(COLUMN($A$1:$D$3)^0)),$A$1:$A$3),"no match found")

I

that's it! thanks again so much for the help!

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

that's it! thanks again so much for the help!

You are welcome.