Sounds like a great project to learn python on.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021, 1:18 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, hacking away.  Mix of first name last and last name first.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 19, 2021, at 1:11 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
>
> If the data isn't normalized, you are in for a lot of manual labor.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 12/19/2021 9:55 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>
> My main problem is I don’t have consistent key field data.  In one list
> names may have a middle initial or a middle initial with a period, it is
> totally missing in other lists or sporadically missing.  Ditto addresses.
> But I am hacking away at it.  I have something usable now.
>
> Chuck McCown
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>
> *From:* Mark - Myakka Technologies
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 19, 2021 10:44 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Merging Data
>
> Steve,
>
> If KEY fields match between data sets then VLOOKUP is the way to go.  I
> think the new XLOOKUP is an enhanced option of VLOOKUP
> --
> Best regards,
> Mark                            mailto:[email protected]
>
> Myakka Communications
> www.Myakka.com
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> Sunday, December 19, 2021, 12:23:28 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> That's what you have to do. I remember I just did multiple pages in one
> spreadsheet and it was a ton of sort commands and then the merging. I
> recall it does it all on the clip board and it's real easy to deselect the
> data for merging.
>
> I remember exporting data as csv helped by using notepad++ where I needed
> random blank cells added to get it in the right format. I dont remember the
> notepad++ plugin I had to use for that.
>
> Excel projects suck. Spend 30 hours learning to master a specific task
> that takes 2 minutes to perform and you will not remember how to do 2 years
> later when you need to do it again
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 11:39 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would start with a 4th spreadsheet with all the columns you need (names,
> addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses).
> Then the challenge is the merge.
> Try something like this:
> https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Combine-multiple-excel-files-with-different-structure-columns/td-p/1372702
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
> On 12/18/2021 9:02 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
>
>
> I have at least three files I need to merge.  Spreadsheets.
>
> Say one has names and addresses
> One has addresses and phone numbers
> One has phone numbers and email addresses
>
> They are not the same length of file so certain records are missing in all
> three files.
> There is something common to allow one file to be merged into at least one
> of the other files.
>
> I really don’t want to write code to parse and search.
> I am hopeful there is some kind of feature in excel that could do this.
> Or I guess I might be able to fire up a database and make it happen.
>
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