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    Re: Partial Match, Multiple Criteria PLEASE HELP!!!

    COLUMN A    COLUMN B    COLUMN C    COLUMN D    COLUMN E    COLUMN F
    Airline 1       Belgium        Arline1         Belg.           EUR
    Airlinee 2     Switzerland   Airline2        Switzlan       EUR
    Airline 3       Morrocco      Aiiline 3       Morocco       USD
    etc.
    etc.
    etc.

    When attempting to apply crazy fuzzy matching like this, the human eye can provide context a program cannot. Worse, you don't have ONE column with "always clean" answers and one with errors, both columns are full of errors.

    You will need create your own reference table to lookup corrected spellings... the first column you gather all the misspellings (and one copy of the correct spellings), and in the second column you put the correct spellings for each. It's a chore to put together, but when done you would be able to reuse that table, and only when you column F formula fails and gives an error would you add to the table of errors to get the new variations in.

    I've attached an example, just keep adding to the lookup table. As it grows, more and more of your rows will resolve themselves. The formula is in G1 already.

    The results you will get are:
    1) The number from E will appear because you lookup table has provided matching strings
    2) #VALUE will appear because your strings are not yet in the table, add them
    3) BLANK will appear because all strings are in the table and they do not match.
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