Count Amount Of Cells Within Range That Contain Multiple Strings Of Text
Apr 22, 2013
I'm trying to build a formula that counts the amount of cells within a range that contain multiple strings of text within the same cell. I only know how to build a formula that snags cells that contain 1 but not 2 different ones within the same cell. For example: I want to count cells if they have the word BALL and STICK somewhere in the cell....see three cell examples below
gameballnetstick
ballgame
stick ball
tenballs
green stick
Of the three examples: it would only count cells: gameballnetstick and stickball
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May 2, 2008
I am very comfortable with VBA but I usually avoid using formulas if at all possible (unfortunately, I have, formulas are unavoidable (by request).. so formulas it is)
I will try to explain
Column A is a list of dates (ever expanding)
Column B is a list of names ( multiple entries of various names but aligned with various dates)
Column H is a list of names (each possible name which can appear in column B, no duplicates)
Cell I1 = A Date
Cell J1 = A Date
(forming a date range)
Basically what I need to do is:
= COUNTIF(B:B,H2) - but only count it if it is withing the date range (>=I1 & <=J1)
I have tried wrapping it in an IF statement but I can't seem to get it to work.
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In Column A I have the list of strings that I need to search. I want to count the number of occurrences of these strings inside these two text files: Sample1.txt and Sample2.txt. For example I have the string "DOG". I want to search and count the number of times this string appeared in Sample1.txt, and Sample2.txt
See below:
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if I give to function "R9", it returns "BBB" also.
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I have a worksheet where
Column D lists a service offered by a business, such as IMC, TC, Respite, etc
Column M lists how long the customer has used this service for in weeks, such as 4,5,3.5,6 etc
What I would like to do in another column is to count the number of clients who have used the service for 6 weeks or more broken down by the service type i.e. Count how many people have used IMC for 6 weeks or more.
If possible I would also like to be able to count those who have used a service for between 5.1. and 5.9 weeks too, again by service i.e. Count how many people have used IMC for between 5.1. and 5.9 weeks.
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Jun 10, 2009
I am trying to count the amount of cells in a column (Col H) containing data against a certain date which is displayed in another column (Col B)
Eg.
Col B................-...........Col H
13/06/09.................FIRST LAST
13/06/09.................
13/06/09.................FIRST LAST
20/06/09.................FIRST LAST
20/06/09.................
So that in the sheet next to it it would appear:
13/06/09 - 2
20/06/09 - 1
The dates don't appear in row order and the sheet has a filter on it so I am unable to select the Col H and just use COUNTA
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Nov 17, 2012
I have a list of names in C1 down that I want to count. There could be hundreds of names in C1 and I don't want to sumif all of them. There must be a simpler solution
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Mar 8, 2013
How do I use an Excel formula to find which (if any) multiple sets, each of up to 50 words, exist in a series of rows of a spreadsheet - if set A has one or more words found in a searched cell.
A positive result will return a specific value in the designated result cell. If none of the words in Set A is found in the searched cell, the formulae will repeat the test for the words in Set B, and so on.
After all 50 sets of words have been tested, the formula will move to the next cell in the searched column.
New words will be added to the sets of words continually as required.
Multiple words within sets are included in double quotes. Within each set of words there will be some n-tuples of words (i.e. 24 adjacent words) that contain one or more of the words in the set, but for which the formula will be required to return a negative result. Example: Set A = word 1, word2, word 3, "word1 word2 word3". (The words within a set could also be each entered in separate columns, as opposed to all included in a single cell.) The single column of text to be searched is about 10,000 rows.
I am wanting to use the above in a spreadsheet that contains data downloaded from a series of bank accounts to automatically allocate items of expenditure to one of 20 or so different categories of expenditure.
The formula will search the description field to find words that are used in the in the downloaded files from the various accounts to describe each transaction.
If a word describing travel expenditure (e.g. hotel, "holiday inn" but not "holiday travel") is found in the description of an expenditure item - the item cost will be allocated to the TRAVEL EXPENDITURE column, which is one of 20 or so different categories of expenditure.
Happy to consider a different solution if the task can be done better a different way.
Tried using a combination of INDEX/SEARCH/IF in Excel, but was not able to get a correct result. PS I am using Excel 2011 for Mac - which does not allow macros, so the solution needs to be entirely formula based.
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E.g.:
- Cell A2 contains "randomtext,randomtext,APPLE,randomntext"
- I want to see if Cell A2 contains any of the words APPLE, ORANGE, CARROT.
- I want to return "APP", "ORG", "CAR" or "Not Found"
Q: What is the most elegant way to accomplish this within a single formula that I could paste into each cell in Column B?
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Another example would be (very different from the first):
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You can see that in this further example "A10C" & "M1A1" are 4 character alphanumeric strings wheras the others feature 3 characters.
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I want to count cells that contain specific text but multiple criteria. For example in range B4:B12 I want to count the cells that contain the word 'daily' AND the word 'weekly'. Each cell in the range contains one word.
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2008-01-08 00:45:43 FRIENDLY ACTION
2008-01-09-00:45:33 RAID
I need a formula or macro that will count all the times "Criminal Event", "Other", "Suspicious Incident", and "Enemy Action" occured in January. Also if possible I need to not specify column ranges, such as A2:A7, but instead it needs to find the last cell containing data in Columns A and B, and use that as the end point. For example it would search A2:Last Cell Containing Data
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Column A
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[Code]....
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I have a table of the hidden words (Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink)
I know I could use search to find one word, but is there a way to look for multiple words, and return the value of which one it finds? I have many hidden words (and the list is dynamic) so I don't want to just split into multiple searches.
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I'm using excel 2007, here's what I need.
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In column E of row 1 I have one column with a long line of text containing information in that should be separated into cells for the following fields:
Year, make, model, drive, part, name, phone, text, email, location, notes, stream, date/time, disclaimer
Here is an example of the text in column E:
Year: 2001 Make: Nasa Model: big spaceship Drive:
Automatic 2 Wheel Drive Spaceship:
4 12.7 Liter ----------------------------- Part: Hood -----------------------------
[Code] .........
The data in each field can be different lengths, and I would like to take pieces of text out of Column E, and put it in other columns in the row.
Each field has its own column, and I would like to copy the data for that field from the column containing all data to its respective column.
=MID(E1,SEARCH("Year:",E1)+5,SEARCH("Make:",E1)-SEARCH("object",E1)+5)
The formula above was inspired by an "extract text between two strings" post, but will not work.
I tried to make a formula that would extract everything between the strings "Notes:" and "Team Stream:" or for example, so I could get the result "Thank you for using our excel forum! thesmartestpeopleever.com" or "Year" and "Make" so I could get the result "2001" if using the example above. I was not able to do it.
I have attached a sample photo and an excel file.
How do I separate/extract each columns data to the appropriate column?
Attached Image : excel string pic.jpg
Attached File : excel string formula conundrum.xlsx
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COROLLA AE90, AE92
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Data should look like:
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For some reason the query does not like searching for the raw data in it's current format so I'm trying to extract the key information for searching instead.
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(Assuming data is in cell V36)
'in colum x
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'in column y
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'in column z
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in column aa
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Heres an example of what I want to:
There are four columns, the first has a name with both the first and last (amanda white)the second just the first name (amanda), the third just the last name(white), and the forth an organization name. if the first column contains an organzation name, it has to clear out the first name and last name columns, and copy the name column to the organization column.
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VB:
FindWhat = "pizza"
For Each Cell In Range("B2", Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)) [code]....
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sample feedback report.xlsx
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