Convert Text To Formula In Worksheet
Jan 21, 2013
I have put together an excel sheet for how how long a part is on a particular machine. If there are multiple operations on a machine, I separated the operation times with a comma in the cell. I am now trying to get a sum of the total time the part is in a machine. I cannot just use a sum since the commas change the format from number to text. I was hoping I could do a substitution where I change the commas to plus signs and stick an equal sign in front of it and somehow get it to be recognized as a formula instead of a text string. Even then, I would still have to do a sum for the entire row. This is what I have as an example
_______Machine 1______Machine 2______Machine 3_______Machine 4_______Machine 5________Total Time
Part 1 _____20________ 10, 10, 10_________________________________________________________50
Part 2 ____15 ____________30____________________________10_______________________________55
Part 3_______________________________5, 15, 60, 10________________________5________________95
I need a column for summing the row of times (Machine Time). It doesn't need to be a one-cell solution. If I need to add a sheet to the file to do operations on the data that is fine. Again, I do not want to use VBA code. I already have a solution in VBA and am trying to do it in the worksheet only. I can get a substitution working to get a single cell into a format like 10+10+10, but that's the easy part of the battle.
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Mar 11, 2009
I'm manually entering a 10 digit code into Col A; at this moment in time I have the following formula in Col B:
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Nov 5, 2012
I want to convert a calculated numerical value to a text value, but there are several possible conversions, each stored in a separate named range, referenced in another cell on the row. Normally I would use VLOOKUP and manually put the range name into the formula, so in this instance:
Formula D2=VLOOKUP(C2,Advanced,2)
Formula D3=VLOOKUP(C3,Intermediate,2)
But with lots of lines to do, I'd rather take advantage of the range name being present. Is there anyway of getting VLOOKUP to recognise the contents the appropriate cell as the name of a range?
Level
Initial
FinalNum
FinalWords
Advanced
47.7838
83.02015053
=VLOOKUP(C2,RangeNamedWhateverIsInA2,2)
Intermediate
42.3845
49.39171553
=VLOOKUP(C3,RangeNamedWhateverIsInA3,2)
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Jun 12, 2014
I need a formula to copy a number stored as a text to the number.
I have a formula in, let's say on Sheet1, cell A1: =IF($M$3,TEXT(N7,"0%"),TEXT(N7,"0.0%"))
I then copy this cell to another sheet, let's say Sheet2, cell A1 =Sheet1!A1. I have then have a bar chart linked to this cell, but it's reading it as text and no bars are appearing in the chart - even though the cell in the second sheet is formatted as a number!
FYI - my work around is to link my chart to the underlying data in the formula above, in this case, N7. But then I'm not getting the whole number (%) or decimal (%) that I want when the value is displayed in the chart.
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Feb 4, 2010
I have a formula that I create using concatenate and I get the right formula as below:
Cell B63
="=MATCH(B61,A"&N(1+B)&":A50,FALSE)"
The result comes like this:
=MATCH(B61,A9:A50,FALSE)
I would like to use this as a formula, however I cant figure this out
=Indirect(B63)
give me a #REF error.
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Sep 17, 2003
Is there a quick way, other than VBA, to put the contents of a cell that has the text of a formula into a second cell, but as a real formula?
What I mean is, if A1 has as text: abs(-1), I would like cell B1 to read the contents of A1 and evaluate it and put the results into B2.
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Jan 15, 2014
I have a workbook with two sheets: Sheet 2 (CustomerVehicleInfo) contains a client database. Sheet 1 is kind of a virtual work order where the mechanic enters the name of a client (in A1) and all his info pops up in cells B4-F4, according to Sheet 2.
I used a simple VLOOKUP for that:
=IF($A$1<>"",VLOOKUP($A$1,CustomerVehicleInfo!$A:$E,1),"")
Same formula for cells C4-F4.
Problem is that the client data needs to convert from a formula to static text and next time the mechanic enters a new name in A1 it needs to jump to the next row, starting at B5.
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May 8, 2014
I am about to take on a rather large excel project for our company. The first part is coming up with how to deal with our drafting department's length inputs. In this project, our users will be entering lengths in a unique format. I have to convert that unique format to a standard Foot-Inch-Fraction format.
To try to keep the file size down and keep the complexity down, converting a cell formula to VBA so i can run this on a group of cells rather than repeating my code downward multiple rows on multiple sheets.
It is either this or come up with my own font that will convert it for me but I do not know where to start with that. How to take a stab at converting this to a VB code i can run?
A3 = 1.0108
B3 = 1'-1 1/2"
The code in B3 looks like this:
[Code] .......
An explanation of the unique format we use in our drafting department:
Basic Feet, Inch and Fraction format = 0 . 00 00 = Feet . Inch Fraction
The numbers left of the decimal point are feet. The first two numbers to the right of the decimal point are inches and the next two are sixteenths of an inch.
Examples:
4’-2" = 4.0200
15’-5 1/4" = 15.0504
4’-11 3/8" = 4.1106
0’-1 15/16" = 0.0115
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Sep 13, 2012
I have a data example
Cell A1 which contain text I.E = "Words"
I have link B1 To cell A1 I.E = A1
Now what I want is I want the last two words or any alphabet between alphabet
to be bold
W O R D
Example
WORD or WORD
Any alphabet between word to be bold upon my requirement.
Instead of linking that cell to another cell , i want any value when entered into that cell.
That alphabet automatically becomes bold as this will not be requiring linking to that cell
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Oct 16, 2006
I have a sheet that uses all vlookup formulas to populate the cells, and then some basic math calculation are done in seperate columns with the results. The problem is, even though the rest of sheet works fine one column is being read as text. I've tried many things to get Excel to read the column as numbers but nothing is working. So far I've tried everything I've found in Ozgrid (Paste special using add and multiply, using a working column)and the simple formatting things built into Excel, but nothing is working. All I need is for the column to be read as a number.
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Feb 15, 2014
I have a spreadsheet where I enter text values in a cell, e.g. (.5 x .5) x 2 x .009. I want to find a way to automatically populated the cell to the right with the formula version, e.g. =(.5 * .5) * 2 * x .009 and format as three decimal place number.
One other question, is there a way to enter a template for entry in a cell. It would be nice if the text value above would take care of the parenthesis and multiplication signs for me.
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Apr 29, 2014
I have created an online survey, and people choose ten words (skills) out of 24 possible. Please see screenshot. I would like a formula that does this in layman's terms: "If I see the word "Cooperation" in the source cell, then I'll put "03b" into the target cell; but if I see "Managing" in the source cell instead, I'll put "21a" in the target cell, etc."
I've tried a few IF / Then statements, with no success. Screenshot shows the source cell upper right, and the ten target cells below left with two rows of sample results. I'm guessing the same formula can be in each of the 10 target cells.
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Oct 13, 2006
Have a macro that copies a formula from each of 100 workbooks to a new workbook. I want to display these formulas as text and want a macro or someway to display these cells as text. I have tried to record a macro that presses the F2 key, the home key and the apostrophe. This works for the one cell but provides the following macro that does not work for anyother cell.
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"'=VLOOKUP($A$30,'G:Variance Reports FY07[Salary Dist Var Repts_Cur Mth.xls]end of July'!$E$76:$G$200,3)"
Range("B3").Select
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Aug 18, 2009
I am wanting to convert a cell reference text
"=$A$1"
to an actual cell reference
=$A$1
Manually I can go through each cell and click F2 + Enter and Excel automatically changes it.
I have tried recording a macro whereby I click through each cell with F2 + Enter but the VBA writes the actual formula "=$A$1" rather than the process. This does not work as the cell reference is variable.
I'm NOT wanting an external cell to convert it for me
i.e. INDIRECT(CELL)
because I am wanting to copy the answer to another independent spreadsheet
I'm NOT wanting to paste values
i.e. return the answer from cell $A$1
because I want the cell reference to remain within the cell.
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Feb 18, 2010
The content of cell "animal!A1" will change according to a simple vlookup table. Let's say the value can be "dog", "cat", or "horse". In cell "animal!A5", I want to duplicate the content either "dog!A5", "cat!A5", or "horse!A5", depending on the current value of "animal!A1".
I've tried to do a simple reference like:
="A1"!A5
or
=A1!A5
wanting the A1 to actually read either dog, cat, or horse so the reference would refer to the worksheet of the same names. This doesn't work, so I need to know if there is a way to do this.
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Jun 12, 2014
I have the following two columns, and would like to obtain for each individual Company, the corresponding Country values excluding duplicates as text in a single cell.
Company 2Country B
Company 2Country C
Company 3Country C
Company 3Country C
Company 5Country A
Company 5Country C
Company 5Country C
For example:
- For Company 2, a cell containing "Country B, Country C"
- For Company 3, a cell containing "Country C"
- For Company 5, a cell containing "Country A, Country C"
I've approached generating an array using an IF statement, as in =IF(INDEX(A1:A8="Company 5",,),INDEX(B1:B8,,)," "), which returns the following array: ={" ";" ";" ";" ";" ";" ";" ";"Country A";"Country C";"Country C";" ";" ";" ";" "}.
The question is: how do I get that array to produce, as text in a cell: "Country A, Country C". Note that the duplicate Country C has been removed.
There are a few "StringConcat" User-defined functions that I've found elsewhere on the internet, but they don't seem to be able to handle to conditionally generated IF Index array, which I would think is key to parsing between Countries corresponding to each Company in the list.
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Mar 22, 2014
Programming Excel VBA Macro to do OCR (text recognition) from a prt scr screen capture image and input the text into cells. Currently my Excel file has a push-button, and upon clicking on it the macro pastes into Excel the current clipboard image I have created by pressing prt scr while in another program. The macro then crops the image to the region with the applicable text. I have to then manually type the text I see in image format into the appropriate cells.
the VBA coding to automate this? I'd like it to use the clipboard image and run it through OneNote OCR, after which the applicable text values are automatically entered into the cells. Ideally the code will first crop to the region with the desired text before it does OCR. If this is not feasible, it will need to incorporate a method (keyword search?) to hone in on the desired text after the entire prt scr image has been OCRed.
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Dec 2, 2009
I have the following macro that I use to convert numbers stored as text to text. For some reason, if I try to use it twice in a row, it won't work, I get an error that says "application-defined or object-defined error" and highlights this part of the Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Offset(1, 1).Copy
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Jan 21, 2009
how to convert a worksheet in a workbook to pdf using VB?
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Jun 28, 2012
I have 5 worksheets in a workbook.
I would like to save the Sheet5 in pdf form in a particular directory d: est , instead of taking print of the same.
The data range in Sheet5 is A1:Z. The PDF should be A3 size and landscape orientation.
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Nov 18, 2008
I currently have a Tab named "Rent by Month 3-08-5-29" containing the monthly rent amount for 700 locations for March 2008 - May of 2029 with the layout seen below.
A B C D E
Shop# 3/1/2008 4/1/2008 5/1/2008 6/1/2008 ETC..
2 $5000 $5000 $5000 $5000
3 $3000 $3000 $3000 $3000
4 $7000 $7000 $7000 $7000
18 $4000 $4000 $4000 $4000
ETC... continuing down 700 rows and over 251 columns
What I need to do is convert this worksheet so it contains the same information but resembles the following layout.
A B C
Shop# Month Rent Amount
2 3/1/2008 $5000
2 4/1/2008 $5000
2 5/1/2008 $5000
2 6/1/2008 $5000
3 3/1/2008 $3000
3 4/1/2008 $3000
3 5/1/2008 $3000
3 6/1/2008 $3000
Etc....
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Nov 16, 2008
am currently a QE using the following data for my report generation:
Date - Week - #Inspected - #Failed
Want to pull data into ANOTHER WORKSHEET from this one wherein the format will be :
Month - #Inspected - #Failed
Indirectly want Excel to directly convert the data by input and categorize into Month in another worksheet (will be linked and would be great if according to the date it could calculate the week as well)...so if somebody inputs defects by date it should automatically cumulate into respective month.
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Dec 12, 2012
I have a workbook with four single page 11x14 worksheets. I'd like to convert each worksheet to a single page 11x14 PDF document so that I can take it to my local printer and have it printed on cardstock. I've tried two different free conversion programs and am frustrated to the bone. The pages keep running over at the bottom onto a second page, and how to make it fit-to-page.
I'd like margins of about 1/4" on the left, right, and top. No headers or anything like that. Then fit to page on 11x14 paper size. I think that's it.
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Oct 12, 2012
Code:
Sub Select_All_Sheets_And_Export()
Dim wsWorksheet As Worksheet, wbNew As Workbook
Worksheets.Select
Cells.Select
Selection.Copy
[Code] ........
I have come up with the above code to select all sheets in my workbook and convert to values and then split and save each worksheet as its worksheet name in the same directory.
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Jan 9, 2013
My question is i have use simple sum function and want to total of sum show in text another range as like 1400 Rs FOURTEEN HUNDRED ONLY
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Oct 16, 2009
I have a long list of words, sentences and paragraphs formatted like the below. Is there anyway I can get them into Excel where everything between and will go into one Excel cell?
Some of the content between has line breaks and some have HTML code
Austria
Bank Sort Code
Bank Postcode
LogOff Date
Enter Country
Bank Transfer
Error: Invalid Subcategory!
Taxes payed for winnings
You did not insert the gender
Display Selected
Cancel Selected
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May 14, 2007
I have a combobox embedded into an excel sheet with a linked cell and a range defined in the combobox properties. Every time I change the value in the combobox, the value in the linked cell is stored as text instead of a number.
I have tried copying a cell containing 1 and copying and pasting as special into the linked cell but that only fixes it for the time being. If I change the value in the combobox again, the value in the linked cell is again stored as text. I tried =value() in the linked cell but that again only worked temporarily. Every time I change the value in the combobox, the value in the linked cell is stored as text.
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Nov 13, 2008
If I have =TODAY() in cell A1 with the formatting ddmmyy (which returns 141108 ) how would I covert it to a number in another cell. SEE ATTACHED
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Feb 27, 2009
How would "April" be converted to "4/1/2009 8:00:00 AM"? The months will vary, but the time will always be 8:00:00 AM.
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Jul 3, 2009
I have a cell with 6:44:04AM as a text, and I need to convert it to number, so far I have tried: =timevalue(a1). no luck, it returns, #value!
Tried to replace AM and PM with nothing, it convert it to number, but changes the value 12:50:30 AM gets converted to 12:50:30 PM. I even tried copy, paste special, vaues, nope, nothing.
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