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Comparing two lists for matches - with a twist!

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Vidita - 26 Jul 2007 01:25 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to do the following:

There are two sets of supplier lists - A List and B List. I need to
compare the two lists. Source A is my master. Source B is a subset of
that but has contact information for all the suppliers. Hence, my goal
is to retrieve the contact information from Source B and match it to
the suppliers of Source A.

The above can be easliy achieved using a vlookup funtion. But the
problem is that some of the supplier names in the two lists are not
exact matches. Hence, vlookup does not catch it. For instance, a
supplier is listed as ABC Inc. in A list and as ABC, inc. in the
other.

Please advise what is a good way to find the matches, when they are
not exact. Putting "TRUE" as the last parameter in the vlookup
function doesn't work as it is too broad.

Thanks,
Vidita.
squenson - 26 Jul 2007 11:53 GMT
I do not know any standard Excel function that could do that. May be you
could create a new column into the supplier master that contains the first n
characters of the supplier (=LEFT(A2, n)), and do a VLOOKUP using this column.

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