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How to identify invalid repetitive characters in First Names and Surnames

Asked by frogman79 in Visual Basic Programming, VB Script, Microsoft Access Database

Tags: vba

I handle customer data for a call centre insurance company.We buy data in, sort it out and load into the telephones. This customer data is full of invalid names i.e MR Aa  Aa, Miss fdfsd sdkfas
Mr Bbb Ccc, Mrs fgdjf dfds.  I have been till now manually removing this information from my data I load into access. I have created a query in access that will probably deal with 25% of these issues, but was wondering if there is some sort of VBA Code that will read repetitive characters or will even read invalid names. I attach the query I have started, and also the outcome of the query i.e what it selects
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