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    Looking to identify partial duplicates in Addresses (typos)

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    I have a sheet with customer ID and addresses, but many users over time have entered addresses in many ways... For example, some will enter "St." and some will enter "Street". I would like to automate this manual process of auditing these inconsistencies. Is there any way that anyone knows to write a formula or conditional formatting that would help point these out? I have attached a sheet as a reference. Thanks!!
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    Re: Looking to identify partial duplicates in Addresses (typos)

    What's the goal here. Is it simply to remove any duplicates for a particular Customer Ref.
    If so why not use say the =LEN() function to identify the longest name since that's likely to be the preferred choice.

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    Then sort A:C by column A ascending and column C descending.
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    Finally filter A:D for values >1 in column D, then select then filtered rows and delete them.
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