Do you have any software developers on staff? This should be pretty trivial
for them.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 1:53 AM Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote:

> regex and xlookup solves your issue
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 1:41 AM Forrest Christian (List Account) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> 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
>>> McCown Technology Corporation
>>> 8401 N Commerce Dr
>>> Lake Point, Utah 84074
>>> 801-250-9503
>>> 435-830-4306 cell
>>> www.mccowntech.com
>>> www.microtrench-blades.com
>>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>> ------
>>>
>>> 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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