Formula For Finding Special Characters
May 8, 2009I was hoping someone could help me out. I've been trying to put together a formula to find special characters with no luck.
Characters I’m looking for are:
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ie timeware *registered sign* community
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.Search.Click
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I have recently run into forms where the name/id of the input element contains special characters. Like Name#OfInputBoxWithin$TheForm$1. which VBA wont allow me to use in the code above since they are type def characters.
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[Code] .....
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I think a process like reading from right to left, look for the first occurance of the special character, and return the characters to the left of this position.
If I can determine the position of the last occurance of the special character, I could use the LEFT function.
The SEARCH function is close. It finds the position of the first occurance of text inside text but it reads from left to right. I need to read from right to left.
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There is no consistency in the text. The total lengths vary. The number of times the special character occurs in the text vary. The number of characters to the right or left of the last special character vary.
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23 cars................................................. 23
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someone here can help me solve it.
I have a number of rows containing data starting at row 1.
I already made VBA code which finds the last row containing data.
That row number is stored in the variable "LastRowWithData".
What i want to do now is the following.
In column B (in row 1 to the row number stored in "LastRowWithData"),
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Some of these unwanted characters are the "I" and "O" characters both in
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If more than one cell containing unwanted characters are found, either more
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Need this formula to everytime it finds a SBI it goes to column E and count if any of the duplicate SBI's have only "Closed" tasks and count that.
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Have a formula to count the individual SBI already so maybe a only have the SBI closed formula and minus that count against the total SBI's to give the not closed SBI's ?
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