Matching Somewhat Similar Text Fields

mark5767

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Just picked up Mr Excel's Pivot Table and VBA & Macros books among some others. These are great!

Unrelated, here's something I struggled with recently. A customer wants us to create a cross reference from his part number to our part number for 250 different parts. Problem is that we set everything up in our system with just our part number, ouch!

He gave us a list of his parts with part number, description and vendor. The only reasonable approach I could think of was to try and match up the description between the two lists of 250 parts. Vendor helps somewhat, we have vendor also on our list, but the vendor can be different in some cases.

So, matching on description is ultimately what needs to happen. Of course our descriptions and his are not identical. But they should contain at least one unique word that matches.

For example:
Our Part#_____Our Desc
00312 _______T1 Isoproyl Glycerin Batch 201
00313 _______T2 Frag Lemon Scnt 51623

Cust Part# ____Cust Desc
4120 _________Isop Glycerin B0201
4121 _________Lemon Scent Fragrance (GP-51-623)

This should give you some idea. So this not too hard to do manually (with a good dose of human intuition), but for 250 parts I was hoping to automate it somewhat. I tried various forms of the MID function to create better matches on the 2 lists with only limited success. There is a lot a variation on different prefixes, suffixes, word orders, abbreviations and number formats between the 2 lists, but there is at least one or two unique words that should match (for the most part).

Does anyone out there have thoughts on a better way to approach this?

Any comments greatly appreciated, thanks!
 
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Which lookup functions find a value equal or greater than the lookup value?
MATCH uses -1 to find larger value (lookup table must be sorted ZA). XLOOKUP uses 1 to find values greater and does not need to be sorted.
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Wow, thanks VoG!

I tested out the fuzzy look up on some band names and it looks pretty good. Not perfect, but WAY better than I thought possible!

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I'll give this a shot at the office tomorrow on the real deal. Thanks to Alan for writing what appears to be a killer look up function!
 
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