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    From JOSEP OLIVA@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 26 03:22:11 2021
    On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 05:33:01 UTC+2, GS wrote:
    Oh, yes, MATCH! I knew I should know this.

    MATCH by itself will do exactly what I want. For some reason my brain froze.

    Thanks, Garry. :-)
    Glad to help!

    I use MATCH() to return the position of a marker, then use INDEX() to return a
    value. This works similar to a lookup function when the lookup value is unknown.
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    I have this formula
    =LOOKUP("MDSAP",SORT(I2:I),SORT(C2:C,I2:I,TRUE))
    but I need to find all cells containing MDSAP in column I2:2 within a text.
    I used "*MDSAP*" instead but it does not work.
    Please help !
    Thank you.

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