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Help? I'm not sure how to post a question, it's not clear to me, so hope you can help me. I need to make a formula to look up a list of program titles in a long list. The names won't match perfectly, so I am looking to find a way to lookup a partial match and confirm that the title is in the list. For example, I will look up a name like scandal in a list of over 1000mprogram names which are better describe as scandal - season 1. So how can one use a formulas to lookup this type of list.

Thank you, for any help. For your background. I am fairly new to excel. And use it for general work as a data entry clerk. This is a struggle I have for a current project which will help me on my temp job I currently hold.
 
Try this formula solution way.

1] Data require format Sheet, E6 enter array formula (Confirm entered with SHIFT+CTRL+ENTER instead of just ENTER)

=INDIRECT("'raw data'!"&TEXT(SMALL(IF((ISTEXT('raw data'!$B$4:$F$50))*('raw data'!$B$4:$F$50<>"Male"),ROW($4:$50)/1%+{2,3,4,5,6},9099),ROW(A1)),"R0C00"),)&""

2] Data require format Sheet, D6 enter formula

=IFERROR(INDEX('raw data'!A$4:A$50,MATCH(E6,'raw data'!B$4:B$50,0)),"")

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Regards
Bosco
 

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Try this formula solution way.

1] Data require format Sheet, E6 enter array formula (Confirm entered with SHIFT+CTRL+ENTER instead of just ENTER)

=INDIRECT("'raw data'!"&TEXT(SMALL(IF((ISTEXT('raw data'!$B$4:$F$50))*('raw data'!$B$4:$F$50<>"Male"),ROW($4:$50)/1%+{2,3,4,5,6},9099),ROW(A1)),"R0C00"),)&""

2] Data require format Sheet, D6 enter formula

=IFERROR(INDEX('raw data'!A$4:A$50,MATCH(E6,'raw data'!B$4:B$50,0)),"")

All copy down

Regards
Bosco

Thanks Bosco,

But unable to change the same while entering more data
Please find attached data

Thanks
Nitin
 

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