excel - Finding partial text in range, return an index

Question

I need to find a partial text in a specific range and get a value which is X rows under cell index of found text. I have tried with INDEX and MATCH functions but without success.

As in example: looking for a partial of text ASDFGHJK and need returned the value three rows under: (I NEED THIS VALUE). I have tried to get a row index of found cell and +3 to get needed value ("I NEED THIS VALUE") but without success.

Any ideas how to do this?

Answer 1

You can use "wildcards" with MATCH so assuming "ASDFGHJK" in H1 as per Peter's reply you can use this regular formula

=INDEX(G:G,MATCH("*"&H1&"*",G:G,0)+3)

MATCH can only reference a single column or row so if you want to search 6 columns you either have to set up a formula with 6 MATCH functions or change to another approach - try this "array formula", assuming search data in A2:G100

=INDIRECT("R"&REPLACE(TEXT(MIN(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(H1,A2:G100)),(ROW(A2:G100)+3)*1000+COLUMN(A2:G100))),"000000"),4,0,"C"),FALSE)

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