Match: How/where do you use a wildcard [*/?] in the formula?

[NeverHappyMike]

Hi


I'm using Index and match to retireve data from another workbook. It works great except for one cell where the formatting may be slightly different (but not to the naked eye). I've read that match can include wildcard cahracters - ? or * in the lookUp part.


My question is how are these, and where are these included within the formula? I keep getting a message box telling me it's not a valid formula everytime I try to enter it?

Match($A37,$A$11:$A$37,0)

Many thanks

Michael

 

[Hui]

Michael

Have you tried something like

=INDEX(A$1:A$10,MATCH("*"&C1&"*",A$1:A$10,0))

Adjust for Sheets and Ranges accordingly

 

[NeverHappyMike]

Didn't try that one. I'll give it a go.