using excel to look up data

wiredemc12
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I have data that I would like to extract from another tab. The problem I have is there is characters in front of both sets of data. Is there a way to create a formula that will find the lookup even though there is miscellaneous data?
EX: I use Cow, Dog and Cat.
Sheet 1:
abdcdfeCowabcda
abdfddfDogadwfl
vfaewCatwqlul

Sheet 2                                                                                      Column that i want to pull from
datadddcow some more data                                               a
dataddddddDog some more data                                        b
datadddaCat some more data                                               c
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Saurabh Singh Teotia
Top Expert 2015

Commented:
I'm assuming this is what you are looking for..check sheet2 where i created what you are looking for and sheet1 i'm picking up values of the match..

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Lkupvalue.xlsx
wiredemc12

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the only problem is my lookup values on sheet 1 have data in front of them. For example ddddCow.
Top Expert 2015
Commented:
Okay and then how do you make out which word to look for if has the data in front of it??

Saurabh...
wiredemc12

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This was a long shot.  You are right there is not a way to look this up. I appreciate you helping me. I have to go back to the drawing board.
Saurabh Singh Teotia
Top Expert 2015
Commented:
In plain short terms if you can't define a logic for identify the word you either need to do the manner which i did or you can't do it from program if it can't be defined in logics and it's subjective in nature and changes every time..

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