acidburn786
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Hope some1 can save me 3 months of work.
I have a list 250 000 rows, of which some duplicates exists. I Need to identify the rows with duplicate names
Column A - Contain Customer name (In a row, it may be Firstname Middle name Surname OR Surname Firstname Middle name) in some instances there is 6 names ,or just initial and surname
Thus I can't use a normal Conditional format to find duplicated, cause the names appear in different sequence within 1 cell.
Column B - Date of Birth
C,D,E,F - Lots of other info
I already split the name into 6 columns
The way I want to check if it is a possible duplicate, is to look at where any of the names match where the Date of birth is the same.
Example:
Row 1 - Johannes | petrus| van | wyk| 1981/01/31 -Possible duplication - pls check
Row 2 - van| wyk | johan| petrus| 1981/01/31 -Possible duplication - pls check
Row 3 - PJ|van|wyk 1981/01/31 -Possible duplication - pls check
Thank you in advance
I have a list 250 000 rows, of which some duplicates exists. I Need to identify the rows with duplicate names
Column A - Contain Customer name (In a row, it may be Firstname Middle name Surname OR Surname Firstname Middle name) in some instances there is 6 names ,or just initial and surname
Thus I can't use a normal Conditional format to find duplicated, cause the names appear in different sequence within 1 cell.
Column B - Date of Birth
C,D,E,F - Lots of other info
I already split the name into 6 columns
The way I want to check if it is a possible duplicate, is to look at where any of the names match where the Date of birth is the same.
Example:
Row 1 - Johannes | petrus| van | wyk| 1981/01/31 -Possible duplication - pls check
Row 2 - van| wyk | johan| petrus| 1981/01/31 -Possible duplication - pls check
Row 3 - PJ|van|wyk 1981/01/31 -Possible duplication - pls check
Thank you in advance