Vlookup?

kiki443

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I have a spreadsheet that I am trying to perform a comparison against but I'm not getting many hits.

I've use the vlookup function to compare fields but the problem is, neither spreadsheet has an exactly equal identifier.

For example

Spreadsheet Name Address ID #
1 John H. Smith 123 N. Mockingbird St. 12-345
2 John Smith 123 North Mockingbird Street 12345


How would I return matches on this data, even without the info exactly matching?
Thank you
 

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Thank you. I think this gets me almost there.

But how would I separate out the address or name. I know I can do a text to column but then for an address I could end up with 5 different columns just for an address like 123 North Mocking Bird Street.


Thanks
 
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Hi Kiki,

Not sure what you need, but the parameter 'AdditionalCols' might be it.

Whilst you can only define one cell for the lookup value, before doing it's magic, the UDF will concatenate 'AdditionalCols' for each entry in the lookup table before comparing.
 
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