How to perform a VLOOKUP() search when there is only a partial match on the lookup value in the formula this allows you to match the first part of a cell, the last part of a cell, or the middle of a cell when using Vlookup formulas.

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I'll show you many examples for returning values from data sets based on partial matches that are made using the Vlookup function in Excel. To do this, we will use slightly more complex versions of the basic Vlookup function, and I will show you many examples of performing different partial matches within the spreadsheet.

Some of the examples include:
matching parts of a cell
matching specific text combined with optional text
matching specific text with any individual letter after it or before it
matching wildcard characters in the spreadsheet

The Vlookup function is a powerful function that can be used in many ways to improve the usefulness of your spreadsheet and, performing partial match searches is one of those ways.

The techniques shown in this tutorial serve the benefit of reducing the amount of data cleaning and augmenting that you have to do when you work with large data sets, particularly those that are imported into Excel.

I hope you enjoy this tutorial!

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