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Default Finding Similar Data in worksheets

I have a list of contacts and would like to compare it to another list from a
different department to find duplicates.

The issue is that some of the information on both lists are recorded with
slight variations (one includes Inc. while other doesn't, etc...). Normally,
I could mark duplicates using conditional formatting but it only considers
exact duplicates rather than looking for similarity.

Does anyone know of any good plugins to accomplish this or a way to create a
find duplicate function that has a bit more tolerance for variation?

Thanks.
 
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