Perform Reverse Simple Match

[Bill Bisco]

Hi all,

Every Keyword has a route associated with it. I want to find out which description contains the keyword and then post the associated route for that keyword .

For example, Abrasive is associated with Route 22. I want to match the Description "Large Abrasive Tool" to the keyword Abrasive. and now in the same row as Large Abrasive Tool I want to post the associated route of the keyword contained within "Large Abrasive Tool" (which is Abrasive) which should be Route 22.

	A	B	C	D

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[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Description[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Keyword[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Route[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Route I want to Return[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FFCC99]#FFCC99[/URL] , align: center"]Large Abrasive Tool[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Tensile[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]87[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]22[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FFCC99]#FFCC99[/URL] , align: center"]Small Cutting Scissors[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Abrasive[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]22[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]45[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FFCC99]#FFCC99[/URL] , align: center"]Difficult Tensile Instrument[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Cutting[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]45[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]87[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FFCC99]#FFCC99[/URL] , align: center"]Random Tool[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Honing[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]21[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=FFCC99]#FFCC99[/URL] , align: center"]Small Abrasive Wheel[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Drilling[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]22[/TD]

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[Bill Bisco]

It will be because of blank cells i believe. Does your range include blank cells?

You're right steve the fish, thanks! Blank cells do mess this up.

There's one more problem too because the second row with “Large Abrasive Tool” is getting fooled with our Keyword “e” and returning Route 4 when ideally we would want excel to return the best fit match, i.e. a match that contains the largest number of worded characters!

One has to be really careful not to have too few characters in the keyword or blanks, otherwise this seems pretty nice.

	A	B	C	D
Description	Keyword	Route	Route I want to Return
Large Abrasive Tool	Tensile
Small Cutting Scissors	Abrasive
Difficult Tensile Instrument	Cutting
Random Tool	Honing
Small Abrasive Wheel	Drilling
Example	e

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[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]87[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]22[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]45[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]45[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]21[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]11[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4[/TD]

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