VLOOKUP and LEN/ISNA to match names?

[LTUser54]

I have a worksheet with name info from 2 databases. I'm trying to match names in different columns that have different formats. One has LN, FN, Initial format, presented in 1 column (Column B), the other has LN,FN with info in 2 columns (Cols. H:I), all names sorted alpha ascending.

Due to the queries involved (PeopleSoft & Employease DB's), I do not have a matching determinate like SSN.

I poked around using MS Help - that was an exercise in frustration, and even tried to cobble together a funtion using VLOOKUP and ISNA which was futile because of the name length mismatch. The shortest employee name is 4 characters. This is a short list to match, but tying to automate it is driving me nuts.

LEN only returns the actual length of the text string, and I can't figure out how to solve this. Can you help with this problem? Any help is sincerely appreciated.

Mark
Boston