Lol, you wouldn't believe this but the project names were all in different physical books, so Book A - C had all the project names from the history of the accounting department from A - C, it was a nightmare, I had to type all the names of every project of my department into a word file for the programmer, lol... so while my mates were partying, I was typing, this was 9-10 years ago in a Nigerian university just for context.Or just use Excel. It has numerous functions to help find names and tag them for verification:
How to check or find if a value is in a list in Excel?
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You can use Ctrl + F for the Find and Replace box to find individual names...
Or =IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(B2,A:A,0)),1,0) to tag items that are already in the list with '1', and those that aren't with '0'
On a side note, I didn't know how technologically backwards I was until I had to learn Excel in university...and they weren't even macros. Just your basic shit like pivot tables.
Excel should be amongst the first things taught in high school computer classes...but in my country, the few schools I know that do just forced kids to memorize coding jargon WITHOUT THE f*ckING COMPUTER.
(I know because I talked to a niece of mine)
If staff in a university don't know how to do Excel sheets, the whole place must be closed down immediately and all the money refunded to the students.
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