Help!!!.. Fuzzy Matching for Chinese Characters/Names.. is there a Macro out there?

[frostytile]

I am trying to link two databases by manually matching the record names (written in Chinese). However, it's taking way too long due to the number of records. One useless character that is missing in one of the names throws off the vlookup!

Does anyone know if there is a Macro available to help do fuzzy matching in a vlookup in Chinese? The difference between a traditional vlookup would be to look at the unique combinations between two chinese characters within the name and find the closest match with another name. (since each unique two character combination greatly increases the chances the two records match) Traditional fuzzy matching yields completely wrong results.

Thanks!

[NickHK]

frostytile,
I'm no Chinese expert, but there are various ways of sorting in Chinese; by
stroke count or PinYin, so it depends what you mean by "closest match.
The .SortSpecial method may help with this.

So you have something like "apple" and "aple" that you are trying to match ?

NickHK

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> I am trying to link two databases by manually matching the record names
> (written in Chinese). However, it's taking way too long due to the
> number of records. One useless character that is missing in one of the
> names throws off the vlookup!
>
> Does anyone know if there is a Macro available to help do fuzzy
> matching in a vlookup in Chinese? The difference between a traditional
> vlookup would be to look at the unique combinations between two chinese
> characters within the name and find the closest match with another
> name. (since each unique two character combination greatly increases
> the chances the two records match) Traditional fuzzy matching yields
> completely wrong results.
>
> Thanks!
>
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