This seems like simple concept at least to my limited excel knowledge, but I'm unable to find a formula that does the following.
I have two columns of text, column A & column B. I want to search column B for a the partial text of a person's name (the first match in the list is fine) and return the data from the same row in Column A (phone number (entered as text)).
Ideally this would work whether the list to search is in any column (or is easily adjusted to return any column), but the cell to match will always be in Column A.
Example:
Search column B for ""Tom"", return text from Column A that corresponds (in this example the value in A6, "555-555-5559")
This is what I think should be working.
=VLOOKUP("*"&TOM&"*",DATASHEETWITHARRAY'!A2:B10,1,1)