Finding and Highlighting Similar but not Identical Cells in a Colu

[Guest]

Hello, I am currently working on a very large contact database for a
commercial real estate firm, in which I need to remove duplicate names. I
have successfully removed all of the exact duplicates, but their remains
hundreds of contacts that are duplicates, but are spelled differently (such
as a typo or an added initial).

For example, lets say this is my column:

John Allbright
John A. Allbright
Josh Smith
Ken Black
Ken Blac

I need a function or a macro that will highlight the similar cells, meaning
the first two and last two entries. I need to manually delete one of each
repeat.

Please help!

 

[Guest]

Bump, can anyone be of assistance?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Whenever I've had to do this kind of think, it's turned into a completely manual
effort.

For instance, I worked with someone named Dave PetersEn. It would be wrong to
delete his name (or mine) because of a one letter difference in names.