excel - Best match of a string from a predefined list of values? -
i doing survey on household appliances, visiting stores. note down full model number hand in notebook. home, need fill these in spreadsheet. have partial list of model numbers. want minimise effort entering unique parts of model number string.
- i'm using vlookup * wildcard in excel non-exact match. problem returns first match, though better match available.
- also, might miss out on hyphen or "/" , need mechanism correct that.
is there solution excel, libreoffice/openoffice or google sheets?
assuming model numbers in column , search value in b2, can use this. handle "/".
=query(a:a,"select lower(a) contains '"& lower(b2) &"'")
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