Formula To Remove Unwanted Characters
Apr 28, 2009I am looking for a formula that will remove any unwanted characters in a cell.
For example i may a word or string of words with "-" , " ' " or "," in them and i would like to have these removed.
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Remove Unwanted Characters
Nov 9, 2006i want to convert an excel spreadsheet into a text file, keeping the same format, but when i do so, excel puts " " around the characters, which i don't want. Example: please see the 2 attachments.
e.g. when i convert, i don't want the " " around the commas in the text file.
Formula That Will Remove The First 2 Characters And The Last Character
Mar 10, 2009i need a formula that will remove the first 2 characters and the last character from the below, so below the result should be R0131644, the number of characters vary from row to row, they are not always 11
EUR01316441
Removing Unwanted Characters & Moving Others
Jul 9, 2009I'm needing some code that will remove an open quotation mark from the numerical value found in column A. This will be for every row with a numercal value.
example problem: "360015
example answer: 360015
All numbers will be 6 digits
And I've got another issue with numerals in column C. To the left side of the Cell there maybe a Number or Letter. To The Right side of the cell
there will be a single or double digit number. Both will be separted by some space (6-8 spaces). As in the examples below:
(again what you see on each line is in one cell in col. C.
R 59
E 6
0 4
I need the value on the left side of the cell to be moved concenate/merge with the values in column B.
There's will be approx 2000 rows that will need to be checked for this occurrance. Since there's so many rows,
I'd really would like to use VBA and not formulas to accomplish this.
Finding Unwanted Characters In Cells
Aug 6, 2009I'm having the following little problem, and i'm hoping that
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"),
there are long code's which all have to be checked for unwanted characters.
Some of these unwanted characters are the "I" and "O" characters both in
upper case and lower case.
If these characters are found a messagebox has to appear, saying something
like "Illegal character found in cell ____".
If more than one cell containing unwanted characters are found, either more
messageboxes with the cell coordinates have to be displayed or one messagebox
displaying all the cell coordinates in which the unwanted characters are found.
Im planning to use a while - wend statement to check all cells for unwanted
characters. (While ActiveCell.Row LastRowWithData)
Is there a simple way to do this in (Excel 2003) VBA ?
Delete Unwanted Characters Within Certain Criterias
Jun 20, 2007I have a spreadsheet that i manually edit each and everyday e.g.
A B C
EABGL/UD NDT254892
MRMR/RUS/ELQNS259762
LSL/UW/B LQNS267259
WWEX/UQ bbr263666
LWL/KL/B 270407
MYTCJ/UB NDT271774
LNL/SB/UB HLC - 271955
SMMQD/WT HLC - 269516
EACO/TN/UGBBR257827
NILVA/UC EUi273645
For everything that doesnt equal EM, LN, LW and TH in column A, everything should be deleted in column B.
For the remaining EM, LN, LW and TH, i would then like it to delete / (forward slash and all characters after this) so that this would make my life easier.
Clean Data - Removing Unwanted Characters
Feb 25, 2007I have an excel sheet with approx 30,000 rows of data.
These are all keyword phrases.
They can be related to any subject, but for this example these are related to the root keyword phrase of "car Rent"
I have some software which basically pulls in keyword phrases from search engines and meta tags etc, including misspelled keyword phrases.
My problem;
The data is uncleaned.
In other words there might be I think it's called "Carriage return" data in there, so the row of data might be very deep (Instead of a row height of say 10.5 it could be anything, IE some could be 100 or 200 even).
There are unwanted characters, for example; ()[]{}+?!""^*
(If it could delete all unwanted characters except for letters/digits)
There is a problem I see, that if it removes _ or - between words, that it will join the words together which won't be of any use. If it deletes anything with a letter either side of it or a letter and digit, or 2 digits, 1 either side it would then need to add a space to replace the hyphen.
So for example; if there was a phrase in the list like ....
Strip Unwanted Characters From Text String
Sep 8, 2009Is there an Excel function that can strip a specificed unwanted character from a text string to leave all the other characters excluding the unwanted one?
e.g. if the original text strings were (in separate cells within a workbook):
C-2C-9C-9-XA-10A-10-BA-10-XA-8N-7-D
The function would strip the "-" to leave:
C2
C9
C9X
A10
A10B
A10X
A8
N7D ...etc.
Remove Portions Of Formula Based On Surrounding Characters?
May 13, 2014I have about 25 workbooks with 180 formulas in them that I would like changed. The formulas are all in the range I10:Q29 and all have the same basic structure:
[Code]....
I would like to remove "filepath1!cell1*filepath1!cell2-" and "filepath1!cell2-" so that only "(filepath2!cell3*filepath2!cell4)/(filepath2!cell4)" remains.
My VBA is pretty weak, but I imagine it should be possible to use something like the VBA equivalent of len() and mid() to isolate the components of the equation to the left of the - in the numerator and denominator, and remove those components (as well as the -) from the formula.
Attached File : trim formulas.xlsx
Remove Unwanted Style In 2003
Nov 1, 2008i have quite a lot of excel 2003 spreadsheets which once edited and saved by excel2007. now, i'm using back excel 2003. (because my efficiency dropped by half by searching the command i wanted in excel2007.) when i open them with excel2003 again, there are a lot of styles. i want to remove them. but it is a tedious job to remove them one by one for these spreadsheets.
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Jun 8, 2013In Column A, I have several rows of data. Some cells contain numbers and some contain text and some are blank. In Column C, I only want the numbers in Column A. I do not want the text and I cannot have any gaps in the column.
So for example:
Column A: row 1: 456 row 2: 789 row 3: text row 4: text row 5: 398 row 6: text row 7: blank row 8: 124
in Column C I need:
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Automatically Remove Unwanted Rows
Dec 13, 2007Im not strong in excel, that why Im here. So:
I work every day with big amount of item numbers and lists in excel and I need some macro or code to automatically remove rows, containing unwanted text.
Example:
MEMORY DIMM 512MB PC3200 DDR
MEMORY DIMM 512MB PC6400 DDRII
MEMORY DRIVE FLASH USB2 2GB
MEMORY MINI SD 2GB W/ADAPTER
MEMORY SECURE DIGITAL 2GB
MEMORY DIMM 1GB PC6400 DDRII
MEMORY DRIVE FLASH USB2 1GB
MEMORY DRIVE FLASH USB2 1GB
So I paste the text from my database, and want to automatically delete rows containing DIMM string. How can I do it?
p.s. is there also a way to leave only the rows I want?
Delete Or Remove The Unwanted Pages
Feb 22, 2005I have a 'document' which shows 294 pages, I have only 10 actual pages. How
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Use Trim Function To Remove Unwanted Spaces?
Jun 23, 2014I am trying to use the trim function to remove unwanted spaces at the beginning of cells that contain an address. The entire column contains spaces prior to the street number/name.
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Aug 8, 2009I have found a very useful UDF for removing non-alpha characters from strings. (See below, Credit for posting to Stanley D Grom - Ozgrid post ´Removing Non-alpha Characters From Text´).
Option Explicit
Private Function RemoveCharacters(InString As String) As String
Dim intLoopCounter As Integer
Dim intStringLength As Integer
Dim intASCIIVal As Integer
intStringLength = Len(InString)
InString = LCase(InString)
For intLoopCounter = 1 To intStringLength
intASCIIVal = Asc(Mid(InString, intLoopCounter, 1))
If intASCIIVal >= 97 And intASCIIVal <= 122 Then
RemoveCharacters = RemoveCharacters + Mid(InString, intLoopCounter, 1)
End If
Next intLoopCounter
End Function
Two requests:
1. Could the UDF be modified such that any part of a string contained within brackets is also removed (e.g. "NLGA High Street (West-Enfield), EN6" becomes "nlgahighstreeten")?
2. Can an argument be added to the format of the UDF, such that numbers (0 to 9) are either included or excluded (e.g. RemoveCharacters(A1,1) where the argument ´1´ would include any numbers (0 to 9), so "NLGA2003 High Street (West-Enfield), EN6" becomes "nlga2003highstreeten6")? ´blank´or ´0´would exclude these numbers, i.e. would return "nlgahighstreeten"
Excel 2010 :: Macro With Autofilter With Array To Remove Unwanted Criteria With Wildcard
Apr 28, 2014I'm having a hard time making this maro work in Excel 2010.
I need it to filter out the items "AR", "BATCH", and the line of "Total:*" where the * is a total amount of any given number dependant on the day.
Below is the coding I have that Excel is not liking.
Sub FilterAccurateRawData()
'
' FilterAccurateRawData Macro
'
'
Rows("1:1").Select
Selection.AutoFilter
ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$AA$45415").AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:=Array("<>AR", "<>BATCH", "<>Total:*")
Operator:=xlFilterValues
Sheets("Instructions").Select
Range("A9").Select
End Sub
VBA Code To Extract Data And Remove Unwanted Data In Row
Dec 15, 2013I have a workbook that has ben imported into excel and I need to extract the Cabinet sizes (red text) from ColumnC On Sheet2 leaving out the rest of the info. I have a button on the home sheet that has the code that I am running to generate this report it will do most of what I want but I am stuck at extracting the cabinet sizes.
The data is coming from the SheetComponetListing worksheet and going to Sheet2. I have manually created the end result that I am looking for on the CabinetSize worksheet. [URL]....
Remove Certain Characters From A Row
Jun 5, 2008let's say row 2 has data that looks like
apple (kg), apple (g), orange (kg), orange (g)
it is possible to remove the (kg) and (g) tags so that it'll become
apple, apple, orange, orange
using VB code?
Remove Characters
Apr 27, 2006May I know how to remove character like
1) full stop
2) spacing
3) Dash
4) Hyphen
5) Left and Right Slash
For example:-
016-2733(LS-800E)
MS12-FS4/2M
1/4"GTR
Output:
0162733LS800E
MS12FS42m
14GTR
Remove Characters From Right Of String
Dec 26, 2009I'm trying to remove everything after a specific character in a string.
I.e. change a website address to the hostname
http://www.excelforum.com/newthread.php
http://usa.excelforum.com/forum/new
to
excelforum.com
usa.excelforum.com
I'm using this formula, which strips the http:// and the www., but does not replace the characters after the first remaining "/" as the wildcard is not recognized.
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"www.",""), A2,"http://",""), A2, "/*", "")
Maco That Will Remove Certain Characters
Feb 19, 2008I have to manually go through about 9,000 workbooks. In cell E43 of a certain sheet called "list" I have to delete underscores(_) and replace them with a single space. and remove the Rev** after each name
In example: company_name_t45671000_RevA2
Will look like this when I'm done: company name t45671000
Now I've tried to make a Macro that will delete the underscores and the Rev which worked fine except that it replaced the names with the the name that the macro was recored under.
IE: The first sheet I done worked fine when I hit the keyboard shortcut command which was company_name_t45671000_RevA2.
The second workbook sheet of "list" got fixed but had the name of the one I fixed before it: company name t45671000, where it should have been "company name s6743245.
Is there a way around this?
Also sometimes the sheets are protected, is there a way to incorporate "unprotect sheet" when it needs to be unprotected and then after the file has been corrected, re-enable protection again?
Remove Characters Before First Non-zero Number
Mar 6, 2013I always seem to have trouble with the Find() and MID() function when used together. I try to following the syntax but it keeping erroring...
I'm trying to remove all the characters before the first non-zero number.
e.g. ABC263080 becomes 263080
PROGO0123 becomes 123
How To Remove The Last X Characters In A Cell
Apr 3, 2008I need to remove the last x characters if its equal to 0's
see:
101190
101200
101300
102000
102010
102020
should be
10119
1012
1013
102
10201
10202
VBA To Remove Characters And Commas
May 26, 2009i need a macro to do the following,
1. Remove all commas from activeworksheet ( i notice i cant see the commas in excel, but when i open notepad i have commas in empty rows)
2. Remove all characters such as = + # ( ) $ from Column 5
Remove All Characters But The Numbers
Sep 10, 2009there is a none VBA way to remove everything from a cell but the numbers.
Example: A, DAVID (002081) becomes 002081
The cell the formula will go in is F4 and the cell its looking at is K4.
Remove Last X Characters From Cells
Feb 10, 2009I need to remove the last 2 digits from a cell that maybe different lengths. For example:
PL26 7QS
ST20 0AW
LE4 8LF
PE30 3WH
CF31 3AY
Remove Last Three Characters In A Cell
Jul 21, 2006The numerical results in column A need to have the last three characters stripped from the cells. I used the =LEFT formula in adjacent cells to return the results but I am looking for a way to run code to remove these three numbers in each cell from row 1 to 8000 in column A.
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Dec 21, 2006I have a set of data in column a that consists of email addresses. These email addresses all have underscores after them, ie "abc@hotmail.com_______". It will be a different amount of underscores everytime and I don't want underscores to be removed that are actually part of the address. I had been using the find replace function through vba, ie
Range("A:A").Select
Selection.Replace What:="_", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
however this ofcourse removes from actual parts of the email address. Is there a way to do this?
