Hi Dave,

I don't seem to be able to read your whole reply. Are
you able to share the access utility that you created?

Thanks,

James
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AFAIK this does require VBA code. I wrote an Access
utility in VBA
that does exactly this cho it works by scrubbing
punctuation out of
each list, then comparing each "word" ("Ed" and "Begley"
and "Jr" are
each words in this context) in each entry in list A to
each word in
each entry in list B. The output is an integer number
corresponding to
the number of word matches found.

.