Ditch;391883 Wrote:
Hi,
I have a base list of ~4,000 customers and I want to compare that with
a
shorter list that contains inaccurate customer names.
With accurate Customer names I would normally use the OFFSET($A$1,
MATCH(Value,Array,0),ColumnRequired) function combination. I was
thinking of
using some LEFT(InaccurateName,1) iterative style of comparings first,
second, third...n, letters of the inaccurate customer names with my
list to
get a % Match per string and then manually sort through them from here.
eg
70% of letters (& order) match in a string = Review for manual match.
Any tips?
Thanks,
Ditch

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