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Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

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    Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

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    Re: Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

    try pivot table for that.
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    Re: Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

    or perhaps vlookup() with a wildcard?
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    Re: Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

    Sheet 1 =
    Cell A1
    Acct Name
    blah inc

    Sheet 2 =
    Cell A1
    Blah

    Cell B1
    Sales rep
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    Re: Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

    How should I pivot that? I have tried and can not figure it out.
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    Re: Vlook up Help- Trying to match customers with sales person, but names are not exact

    try something like this...

    =vlookup(b1&"*",A1:B20,2,0)
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