If you look at the bill numbers in the first table, we have the first three characters as alphabets and next followed by a numerical value, so we can include three question marks to match the first three characters of the bill number.
You may also look at these useful functions in excel —. Forgot Password? Free Excel Course. Login details for this Free course will be emailed to you. What does this mean?. It is probably easier to explain with an example. See how this works?. Here is the formula explained. See what happens when we use this wildcard in our formula. The extra spaces after the Product Ref in my data extract have been dealt with easily by my use of the wildcard. Have you used wildcards in formulas?
Share in the comments below. What Is The Solution? What Next? Want More Tips? So, if you want more top tips then sign up for my Monthly Newsletter where I share 3 Tips on the first Wednesday of the month and receive my free Ebook, 30 Excel Tips. Use extra care in reviewing the results from the wildcard lookup. This formula works as well. Have you ever done a VLOOKUP where the lookup value might contain an asterisk or question mark as part of normal text and not intended to be used as a wildcard?
If the answer to either of those questions is yes, then it probably would make sense to you for Microsoft to offer a new, improved version of VLOOKUP that ignores wildcards by default. There could be an extra optional argument at the end of this new function that would allow you to tell Excel to use wildcards.
The new logic should be rolling out to all Office subscribers by the end of But if you have a massive worksheet that takes 40 seconds to calculate, expect to see that recalculation time drop to about four seconds or less.
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