Would it be useful to use initials with trailing digits, and have a legend at the end of (each page of) the report?
Something like:
Date Range Level Consumers
-------------------------- ------- --------------------------
13 Mar 2004 to 23 Mar 2004 7 AB, AT, DA, MS, RI, RR1, RR2
24 Mar 2004 to 31 Mar 2004 6 AB, DA, RC, RI, RR1, SJ
01 Apr 2004 to 15 May 2004 3 Alan Po, Rohan Ito, Sam Jones
16 May 2004 to 31 Dec 2004 5 AP, PS, RC, RI, SJ
---------------------
RR1: Ron Richards
RR2: Renee Rotunda
And what happens if you have 2 "John J. Smith"s? Do you append their employee numbers?
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