Question : How to find matching company names in 2 different Excel 2007 Sheets

Hi All,

2 different list of company names, need to output to a sheet the matching companies. Problem is the company name is typed differently on the sheets. So the Vlookup is only finding the exact matchng names.

Anyone have any solution to this?

Afternoonan

Answer : How to find matching company names in 2 different Excel 2007 Sheets

afternoonan,

You are not going to get a truly satisfying answer, because what you are asking for is fiendishly hard. There are different techniques that will yield varying levels of success, but inevitably even the "best" techniques will yield many false positives and false negatives.

The attached sample file shows on the "top 750" worksheet the results of a Soundex-based approach and the results of a "fuzzy logic" match.

Patrick