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Find occurrence and determine most likely match

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    Find occurrence and determine most likely match

    Hi. I am about to pull my hair out with this one. Here is a pic of what I am working on:

    ExcelExample.jpg

    The first outlined block is data I need to match to a master file which has a ID number I need link to each entry in the block. The next four rows are possible matches that I found using a fuzzy look up add-on. The four blocks each have a ID number, Name and a Similarity percentage which reflects how close of a match it is.

    I am trying to fill in the last outlined block with the closes match. Is there any formula which would look through the 4 blocks of possible matches and compare there Similarity percentage? The formula would also have to look for duplicate matches in a row and then average there Similarity score.
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    Re: Find occurrence and determine most likely match

    Show us the desired result and please explain how they are related.
    Notice my main language is not English.

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    Re: Find occurrence and determine most likely match

    Hello. I updated the pic above to show a desired result:

    ExcelExample2.png

    You can see that I just copied the final block down below so I had more space to work with. Each of the matches have a small weight to them.

    For example
    1) In the first row I am trying to find a match for the entry "Joker 150 Main Capitol".
    2) The four blocks of cells in the center have possible matches.
    3) 3 of the possible 4 have the same ID number of 510354 so there similarity numbers are added up and weighted and averaged which equaled 100.98%.
    4) I then compare that score of 100.98 to the other match which has an ID number of 501476 and a score of 75%.
    5) ID number 510354 has a higher similarity number so it's information (ID number, Name and Similarity) is copied into the final block of cells.
    Last edited by MittenWinter; 01-07-2013 at 05:09 PM.

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    Re: Find occurrence and determine most likely match

    You posted an pic, in which we can't work.

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    Re: Find occurrence and determine most likely match

    O I am sorry it worked before I uploaded it.

    Here is another link, it seems to work just fine: http://i.imgur.com/keyyZ.png

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    Re: Find occurrence and determine most likely match

    Is this just not feasible? Just tell me what to google and I'll figure it out.

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