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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:10:10+00:00

I am trying to lookup a value e.g. 123abc456 from a table but the

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I am trying to lookup a value e.g. 123abc456 from a table but the column that I want to look up will have the format e.g. 123-abc456 or 123ab-c456.
There may be a dash between the characters in the string but these characters may be anywhere in the string. Is there a way of searching in excel using vlookup for the string 123abc456 without going through each record in my lookup table and removing the characters?
If there is another function in excel that would achieve this outcome then I am happy to learn about it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This example assumes a formula in B2, looking at a value with a dash in A2, and a lookup table of values without dashes in Sheet 2, cells A2:B8:

    =VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"-",""),Sheet2!$A$2:$B$8,2,FALSE)
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