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COMPARE CELL CONTENTS
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http://cjoint.com/data/mxvW30Cruc.htm The formula for column E is AND(Search(B2,A2,1),Search(C2,A2,1),Search(D2,A2,1 )). First, why the result shows #VALUE! What's wrong with the formula? The goal is to check the combination of [first name, middle name and last name] against the signature. But sometimes the signature can be considered as correct (TRUE, as in E3 & E4) even if it is wrong. What's tricky is we don't need the signature to be exactly the same as the combination of the 3 names, so I can't use EXACT function. For example, what's calculated as FALSE (E5) will be filtered and manually checked to see if the spelling mistakes are acceptable or not.So I changed the above formula to IF(AND(SEARCH(B2,A2,1),SEARCH(C2,A2,1),SEARCH(D2,A 2,1)),IF((LEN(A2)-SUM(LEN(B2&C2&D2)))2,FALSE,TRUE),FALSE) As a result, all records with FALSE or #VALUE! need further manual checking. 1. As the number of records is very large (10000 records), the manual checking precedure takes a extremely long time. Can anyone suggest better ways to do the task? Thanks! 2. There are a number of keywords forbidden to use in the signature, say the list {ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR....FIFTY}. Can I check this in EXCEL? Thanks a lot!!!!! Thanks!!! |
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