Yes but I still like doing some things myself.  Could do it in C if I had all 
the libraries from 30 years ago that I wrote when doing telco billing software.

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> On Dec 20, 2021, at 3:08 AM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any suggestions?
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