How to use wildcards in VLOOKUP

[nomido14]

Hi all,

I'm new to VBA and this forum and was wondering if you could advise me on how to correctly use a wildcard in VLOOKUP (or an alternative approach to the below - suggestions welcome).

I have a list of transaction descriptions in Column C. What I am trying to do is categorise these transactions based on a number of keywords. Where i am stuck is that the below code looks up the whole value of Cells in Column C and not just whether the cell CONTAINS the key word. Any ideas?

DATA EXAMPLE

COLUMN C (DESCRIPTION): "Bank MTG Mort. payment"
COLUMN G (WHERE RETURN VAL. SHOULD GO): MORTGAGE
COLUMN H (KEYWORD TO SEE IF CONTAINED IN COLUMN C'S CELL): MTG
COLUMN I (RETURN VALUE IF "MTG" EXISTS IN COLUMN C'S CELL): MORTGAGE

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[Richard Buttrey]

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[nomido14]

Amended as requested.

[Richard Buttrey]

Hi,

Would you upload the workbook so that we can see the request in context please.

[nomido14]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your post; didnt realise I could do that please find attached the workbook.

Thanks.

[Richard Buttrey]

Hi,

Try this procedure

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[nomido14]

Richard you genius!! Thank you very much!!!

[Richard Buttrey]

My pleasure - glad to have helped.