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Finding and Highlighting Similar but not Identical Cells in a Colu
Hello, I am currently working on a very large contact database for a
commercial real estate firm, in which I need to remove duplicate names. I have successfully removed all of the exact duplicates, but their remains hundreds of contacts that are duplicates, but are spelled differently (such as a typo or an added initial). For example, lets say this is my column: John Allbright John A. Allbright Josh Smith Ken Black Ken Blac I need a function or a macro that will highlight the similar cells, meaning the first two and last two entries. I need to manually delete one of each repeat. Please help! |
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Finding and Highlighting Similar but not Identical Cells in Column
Bump, can anyone be of assistance?
"Matt Nichols" wrote: Hello, I am currently working on a very large contact database for a commercial real estate firm, in which I need to remove duplicate names. I have successfully removed all of the exact duplicates, but their remains hundreds of contacts that are duplicates, but are spelled differently (such as a typo or an added initial). For example, lets say this is my column: John Allbright John A. Allbright Josh Smith Ken Black Ken Blac I need a function or a macro that will highlight the similar cells, meaning the first two and last two entries. I need to manually delete one of each repeat. Please help! |
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Finding and Highlighting Similar but not Identical Cells in a Colu
Whenever I've had to do this kind of think, it's turned into a completely manual
effort. For instance, I worked with someone named Dave PetersEn. It would be wrong to delete his name (or mine) because of a one letter difference in names. Matt Nichols wrote: Hello, I am currently working on a very large contact database for a commercial real estate firm, in which I need to remove duplicate names. I have successfully removed all of the exact duplicates, but their remains hundreds of contacts that are duplicates, but are spelled differently (such as a typo or an added initial). For example, lets say this is my column: John Allbright John A. Allbright Josh Smith Ken Black Ken Blac I need a function or a macro that will highlight the similar cells, meaning the first two and last two entries. I need to manually delete one of each repeat. Please help! -- Dave Peterson |
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