Dupes

Brian from Maui

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Aloha,

I am using a this conditional format to locate dupe names:

=countif($1$99,b1)>1

If there is any extra spaces etc. Excel will not recognize this as a match. Is there a way where I can tweak this formula to also find like names, or names with transposed letters or extra space between the first and last name?

Brian
 

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On 2002-03-02 10:18, Brian from Maui wrote:
Aloha,

I am using a this conditional format to locate dupe names:

=countif($1$99,b1)>1

If there is any extra spaces etc. Excel will not recognize this as a match. Is there a way where I can tweak this formula to also find like names, or names with transposed letters or extra space between the first and last name?

Brian
Aloha Brian. You could use:

=countif($1$99,trim(b1))>1

which will get rid of extra spaces but it's not going to address names that are similar or names with transposed characters.
:)
 
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