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I'm using INDEX(...,MATCH(..,...,...,FALSE)) to match two columns with names.
The names in the columns are not identical but I still would like to match
them, even if there is an extra space, coma, or one is capitalized and the
other isn't.

Any suggestions?


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=INDEX(A2:A100,MATCH("*"&C2&"*",B2:B100,FALSE))

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I'm using INDEX(...,MATCH(..,...,...,FALSE)) to match two columns with names.
The names in the columns are not identical but I still would like to match
them, even if there is an extra space, coma, or one is capitalized and the
other isn't.

Any suggestions?


thanks,

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