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Fuzzy matches to a look-up table

I have a table of contacts where one of the fields is Job Title. I also have a look-up table that contains a list of job titles.

I would like to know how I can pull all of the contacts that have a match to the job title field in the look-up table. An exact match is easy, I can just create a query and link the two fields.

I would like to know if I can pull all contacts that has a 'contains' match. So if one of the job titles in look-up table is analyst, the search would also find data analyst.

I could enter in the criteria section of the query *analyst* which would find data analyst, but I have over 100 job titles in the look-up table that I would have to manually enter.

Is there a way of running a contains across these job titles?

Thanks

RE: Fuzzy matches to a look-up table

Access tip:

Create An Inaccessible Field On A Form

There is sometimes a need to make a field in a form look like a normal field but be completely inaccessible to the user. To do this:

In the Field's Properties
Set the ENABLED property to No
Set the LOCKED property to Yes

The field will not grey out, but the user will not be able to do anything with it.

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