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Compare words between two cells and get matching percentage

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    Question Compare words between two cells and get matching percentage

    Hi all,

    I have a column with 10,000+ lines, and lots of them are duplicated.
    I have a formula that tells me how many times they are duplicated, but it only looks for 100% matching cells.

    Now, lots of cells are partially duplicated, for example:

    A1 - Team Abcde
    A2 - Team Abcde Fghi
    B1 - Team Abc

    I would like to have a formula giving me a percentage of how two cells are similar to each others by checking the words.
    In this case, B1 is 50% similar to A1 because only the word 'Team' is duplicated.
    B1 is only 33,34% similar to A2.

    I hope any of you can give me a hand on this, thanks :-)
    Last edited by paokun; 04-26-2010 at 11:04 AM.

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