Lookup?

midfieldgeneral11

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Can you help, I have TWO spreadsheet both with a list of names.

I am trying to do a look up table to match the two spreadsheets.

But….

I have a name in the spreadsheet like John L Workington but I may have one named John Workington.

Is there a way to do a look up table to look some of the cell and state that this is a match instead of looking at the whole cell.

Please help Simon
:LOL:
 

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Sorry i do not know which one to use.

You have 3 Bills matches where there is only 2!

Sorry i do not understand could you give the correct formulae.

So Jack White matches Jack L White

That would be great
 
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The 3 in Alan's top post refers to the row number of the match, not the count.

But, the method in Alan's first post will fail if your data has Jack White, Jim White, and Jim Smith, as that case does not allow matching based on first name or last name alone. You'd have to use the "big boys" approach in Alan's second post.

Maybe I am misinterpreting your question though. If all you need to do is strip out middle initials from one post so it matches up with the other, that's MUCH easier.

Where the fuzzy matching is necessary is if one file has Jim Smith and the other has James Smith and they're the same person, you need to perform a fuzzy match (such as Alan's method) as no embedded Excel formula combination can do that.
 
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Perhaps:-
Book1
ABCDEFGHI
1NAMESTSALESFORMULA1
2JohnLWorkingtonMI$1,200.00WorkingtonNAMESTFORMULA2FORMULA3
3JackLWhiteIN$136.00WhiteJackLWhiteINWhite$136.00
4JackWhiteIN$922.00White
Sheet1


Formula1:- =MID(A2,IF(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",""))>1,FIND(" ",SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","",1))+2,FIND(" ",A2)+1),LEN(A2))

Formula2:- =MID(F3,IF(LEN(F3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(F3," ",""))>1,FIND(" ",SUBSTITUTE(F3," ","",1))+2,FIND(" ",F3)+1),LEN(F3))

Formula3:- =INDEX($C$2:$C$4,MATCH(H3&G3,$D$2:$D$4&$B$2:$B$4,0))
Confirmed with Ctrl/Shift/Enter
 
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