excel hyperlink a vlookup partial string match

Question

I have a VLOOKUP formula for a partial string match like this:

=VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE("*",B3,"*"),$A$2:$A$3,1,FALSE) 

which results in 2013-BROWN.TOM.PDF

I want to hyperlink the result of the VLOOKUP like this:

C:\JP\TEST\2013-BROWN.TOM.PDF

Answer 1

It seems like you could accomplish this by simply adding that data into your formula - Something along the lines of:

=HYPERLINK("C:\JP\TEST\" & VLOOKUP(CONCATENATE("*",B3,"*"),$A$2:$A$3,1,FALSE))

But if I'm not understanding your question, please clarify...