Need help with text lookup between two lists

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psulion01

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I have two lists.

List 1 is a listing of Fortune 1000 companies.
List 2 is a list of clients I have done business with.

Problem is that I have mismatched company names, i.e. "General Electric" and "General Electric Co.". I need a function or bit of code that will look at a cell in the Fortune 1000 list (cell A2), and then search my list of clients and find the closest match.

I tried this with a vlookup with the variable set to TRUE, but it was returning names like Expedia.com when I was looking for Exxon Mobil.

Can someone offer a solution?

Thanks
 

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psulion01 said:
I have two lists.

List 1 is a listing of Fortune 1000 companies.
List 2 is a list of clients I have done business with.

Problem is that I have mismatched company names, i.e. "General Electric" and "General Electric Co.". I need a function or bit of code that will look at a cell in the Fortune 1000 list (cell A2), and then search my list of clients and find the closest match.

I tried this with a vlookup with the variable set to TRUE, but it was returning names like Expedia.com when I was looking for Exxon Mobil.

Can someone offer a solution?

Thanks
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Hi psulion01:

How about ...

<html><head><title>Excel Jeanie HTML</title></head><body>
Excel Workbook
ABC
1
2ExpediaExxonThe Exxon Mobile Co.
3Experia
4Exxop
5The Exxon Mobile Co.
6Exxog
7abc
8bcd
9general
10
Sheet6


</body></html>
 
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