How to apply fuzzy lookup to find approximate match result in Excel?

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Sometimes, we not only need to do exactly lookup, but also want to do a fuzzy lookup as below screenshot shown. Actually, in Excel, the Find and Replace function somewhat help you for fuzzy lookup.

Supposing you have a range A1:B6 as below screenshot shown, you want to fuzzy lookup string “apple” without case insensitive or the “app” in this range. You can apply the Find and Replace feature to handle the job.

Look up in non-case sensitive

1. Select the range you want to look up, press Ctrl + F keys to enable the Find and Replace function, type the string you want to look up in the Find what textbox.

2. Click Options to expand the dialog, uncheck Match case option, but check Match entire cell contents option.

3. Click Find All, the strings not in case sensitive have been listed.

Look up part of string

1. Select range and press Ctrl + F keys to enable the Find and Replace function, and type the part string you want to look up in the Find what textbox, uncheck Match entire cell contents option, if you need also can uncheck Match case.

2. Click Find All, the cells which contain the string have been listed.

Fuzzy lookup one value or multiple values with a handy tool

If you need to lookup one values approximately or find out all approximate values at the same time, you can use the Fuzzy Lookup feature of Kutools for Excel.

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After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

Lookup one value approximately

Supposing you want to lookup a value “app” in range A1:A7, but the number of different characters cannot be more than 2, and the number of characters must be large than 1.

1. Click Kutools > Find > Fuzzy Lookup to enable the Fuzzy Lookup pane.

2. In the popping pane, do as these:

1) Select the range you used to find, you can check Specified to fix the searching range.

2) Check Find by specified text checkbox.

3) Type the value you want to fuzzy search based on in the Text textbox.

4) Specify the searching criteria as you need.

3. Click Find button, then click the down arrow to expand the list to view the searching results.

Fuzzy lookup multiple values

Supposing you want to find all approximate values in a range A1:B7, you can do as below:

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1. Click Kutools > Find > Fuzzy Lookup to enable the Fuzzy Lookup pane.

2. In the Fuzzy Lookup pane, select the searching range, and then specify the searching criteria as you need.

3. Click Find button to go to the searching result view, then click down arrow to expand the list.

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