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  1. 01-21-2022, 06:39 AM #1
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    Conditional Formatting, Cells Similar Names

    Hello All.

    Can you please advise how to apply a conditional formatting to highlight the items in Sheet1 that match or are similar to Sheet2. thank you in advance for your support. I am having issues attaching an excel workbook and just added the data in sheet1 and sheet2 below.

    Sheet1
    BURT, JAMES (28)
    MYERS, RICK (01)
    EBERHARD, TIM (90)
    MEADOWS, BEN (38)
    MORG, DAN (55)
    RIVERA, JOE (73)
    DEHA, JOSH (11)
    BURT, JAMES (18)
    MYERS, DERICK (01)
    EBERHARD, RON (30)
    MEADOWS, BEN (38)
    DEHA, JOSH
    EBERHARD, TIM

    Sheet2
    BURT, JAMES
    MYERS RICK
    EBERHARD, TIM
    MEADOWS, BEN
    MORG, DAN
    RIVERA, JOE
    DEHA, JOSH
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    Re: Conditional Formatting, Cells Similar Names

    Does 'similar', in your case, simlpy mean the same without the number in parenthesis at the end? Or something different?

    In sheet 2, the second name does not have a comma - is this a mistake or deliberate?
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    Re: Conditional Formatting, Cells Similar Names

    CF rule for cell A1:

    =NOT(ISNA(VLOOKUP(IFERROR(LEFT(A1,FIND("(",A1)-2),A1),Sheet2!$A$1:$A$7,1,0)))

    Applies to:

    =$A$1:$A$13

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    A
    1
    		 BURT, JAMES (28)
    2
    		 MYERS, RICK (01)
    3
    		 EBERHARD, TIM (90)
    4
    		 MEADOWS, BEN (38)
    5
    		 MORG, DAN (55)
    6
    		 RIVERA, JOE (73)
    7
    		 DEHA, JOSH (11)
    8
    		 BURT, JAMES (18)
    9
    		 MYERS, DERICK (01)
    10
    		 EBERHARD, RON (30)
    11
    		 MEADOWS, BEN (38)
    12
    		 DEHA, JOSH
    13
    		 EBERHARD, TIM
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    Re: Conditional Formatting, Cells Similar Names

    Or maybe this (if the comma issue is deliberate):

    =NOT(ISNA(IFNA(VLOOKUP(IFERROR(LEFT(A1,FIND("(",A1)-2),A1),Sheet2!$A$1:$A$7,1,0),VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND("(",A1)-2),",",""),Sheet2!$A$1:$A$7,1,0))))
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    Re: Conditional Formatting, Cells Similar Names

    Thank you for your help.
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    Re: Conditional Formatting, Cells Similar Names

    Pleasure!
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