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Need help: As stated in image below that I need the result in E3 to be "Washington" because based on lookup value in B6:B9 there is a matched-word partially (which is 'Washington') from D3's long sentence (Showroom Washington Furniture)

I tried vlookup but obviously it didn't work because the long sentence only match partially with the 'one-word lookup-value' in B6:B9

Appreciate if someone can tell what formula should I put in E3?

thanks a lot

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  • Better share the Lookup formula you have tried so far!! – Rajesh S Jul 27 '19 at 9:37
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    You may try this =INDEX($B$6:$B$9,MATCH("*"&$B$6&"*",D$3:D$3,0)) ,, returns Washington in E3 !! – Rajesh S Jul 27 '19 at 9:47
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You can try:

=LOOKUP(1E100,SEARCH(A$2:A$5,C2),A$2:A$5)

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  • thanks it worked well in MS EXCEL, but not when I tried in Google Spreadsheet, do you know what formula should i put in Spreadsheet? – freakyholic Jul 27 '19 at 23:50
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    Yes, that's probably because the formula behaves like an arrayformula, and in excel you need to declare that through ARRAYFORMULA, so the whole thing will become: =ARRAYFORMULA(LOOKUP(1E+100,SEARCH(A$2:A$5,C2),A$2:A$5)) – JvdV Jul 28 '19 at 7:23

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