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fastest way to search for word repetitions in a large document
Hi what is the fastest way to search for repetition of names in a large
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fastest way to search for word repetitions in a large document
Hi Dee,
there is no answer to that. Depends on the structure of the data and the available memory, in theory. Depends on the result you want to get. Do you want to just know, whether there are double entries? Or do you want to count for each name, how often each name appears? Do you want to know also, where it appears? What you wan to do with the result of the search? You may rearrange the data first, e.g. sort them in alpabetical order, then searching could be very fast. Which rises the question, what is the fastest sorting algorithm. Depends on the memory again and the structure of your data, which you don't know before having analyzed them. But analyzing takes time, too. Would you count the time needed for rearranging the data together with the time needed for searching? For a practical advice: Try putting the table in an Excel-Sheet, and process the data in Excel. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de" |
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fastest way to search for word repetitions in a large document
Word is not the best application for a database, but one way to find
duplications is to enter a given name in Edit | Find (Ctrl+F) and check the box for "Highlight all items found." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dee" wrote in message ... Hi what is the fastest way to search for repetition of names in a large database (over 10,000 names) |
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Ten thousand names in a Word document? One to a line? - Sort them into
alphabetical order and then use replace to find the duplicates - see http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dee wrote: Hi what is the fastest way to search for repetition of names in a large database (over 10,000 names) |
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