frostytile,
I'm no Chinese expert, but there are various ways of sorting in Chinese; by
stroke count or PinYin, so it depends what you mean by "closest match.
The .SortSpecial method may help with this.

So you have something like "apple" and "aple" that you are trying to match ?

NickHK

"frostytile" wrote
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I am trying to link two databases by manually matching the record names
(written in Chinese). However, it's taking way too long due to the
number of records. One useless character that is missing in one of the
names throws off the vlookup!

Does anyone know if there is a Macro available to help do fuzzy
matching in a vlookup in Chinese? The difference between a traditional
vlookup would be to look at the unique combinations between two chinese
characters within the name and find the closest match with another
name. (since each unique two character combination greatly increases
the chances the two records match) Traditional fuzzy matching yields
completely wrong results.

Thanks!


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