Hello all, I've heard this is a very helpful group of individuals and hopefully you can help me solve my issue. Also, sorry if this is answered somewhere, I have hard time searching this situation.
I currently run a report each day containing training data for multiple companies. The issue that I have is the website where the training is hosted, allows the employees to write out their company names when submitting their info. Because of this, I am left with multiple variations of the company's name in my file. The variations can be due to a mix of lowercase/uppercase, adding/not adding punctuation, misspellings, etc. This makes it difficult when I pull this data into a pivot table or try to organize it since I can have so many variations of the same company name.
What I would like to do is have something setup in the file that would allow me to either fix the variations so I ended up with one consistent name or have it so there is a separate column that feeds the variations into and spits out my singular name.
For example:
For the company Woodcutting International (how I would like it to appear), I may see Woodcutting international, woodcutting international, Woodcutting Int, Woodcutting Int., Wodcutting International.
I currently run a report each day containing training data for multiple companies. The issue that I have is the website where the training is hosted, allows the employees to write out their company names when submitting their info. Because of this, I am left with multiple variations of the company's name in my file. The variations can be due to a mix of lowercase/uppercase, adding/not adding punctuation, misspellings, etc. This makes it difficult when I pull this data into a pivot table or try to organize it since I can have so many variations of the same company name.
What I would like to do is have something setup in the file that would allow me to either fix the variations so I ended up with one consistent name or have it so there is a separate column that feeds the variations into and spits out my singular name.
For example:
For the company Woodcutting International (how I would like it to appear), I may see Woodcutting international, woodcutting international, Woodcutting Int, Woodcutting Int., Wodcutting International.