It's still not clear to me exactly what you are trying to do, but my best guess right now is that you are trying to do a "fuzzy" lookup -- a text lookup where the search string and the text in the database are never exact matches. If I'm right, you may find that you want something that will do a fuzzy lookup, like this add-in from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=15011