Remove Characters / Spaces After Text For All Cells Within Range
Oct 12, 2013
Initially I'm simply copying a data table from a web page using "Ctrl + A" then "Ctrl + C", and then pasting the data straight onto a new worksheet so I can work with it. (After temporarily re-naming the old sheet)
But I keep finding what looks like double-spaces after some of the important text within the Range of cells I'm working with. I need to be able to select & conditional format the values of the text in some columns of the sheet, so need to loose these trailing spaces.
Unfortunately, it's not consistence as to how many spaces trail the text I need. Sometimes it's only one space, sometimes its two spaces ?
So far, I've had mixed success with a recorded "Replace" code but none of the other codes I have found on forum pages either don't work all or seem to give any consistent results. E;g; TRIM, CLEAN
I suspect my problem is, I do not know how to call the code properly, or trying to work with too large a range ?
The start of my code reads:
Code:
Sheets("Data").Select
Sheets("Data").Name = "Old Data"
Sheets.Add After:=Sheets(Sheets.Count)
Sheets(Sheets.Count).Select
ActiveSheet.Name = "Data"
[Code]...
' At the moment I'm using to select the pasted range I want to work on: Range(Range("C46"), Range("C46").SpecialCells(xlLastCell)).Select
This is where I need a code to work on the new Data sheet and remove all the trailing characters.
MsgBox "All data cleaned successfully !", vbInformation + vbOKOnly, "All Done"
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Jan 9, 2012
I am trying to do a vlookup. I receive a report that gives the data as hyperlinks. I run a macro to remove the hyperlinks. I'm then left with a name that i want to match using a vlookup to get other data. The names are Chinese characters. I have tried using trim and clean function but its still leaving a space after the name. If i fo in manually and delete the space at the end the vlookup works fine. How to remove the spaces? i have about 5000 rows.
学员名字EliteNumber刘传佳=TRIM(A2)=VLOOKUP(B2,Sheet3!B:D,3,FALSE)刘传佳=VLOOKUP(D2,Sheet3!B1:D3550,3,FALSE)刘传佳 =TRIM(A3)刘传佳=VLOOKUP(D3,Sheet3!B2:D3551,3,FALSE)钟才富 =TRIM(A4)钟才富=VLOOKUP(D4,Sheet3!B3:D3552,3,FALSE)张杰 =TRIM(A5)张杰=VLOOKUP(D5,Sheet3!B4:D3553,3,FALSE)
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lowtusmaximus
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This may be a very simple question so forgive me for my ignorance. I have text in individual cells that look something like this (not actually addresses but same format):
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Basically I want to take out all non alphanumeric characters and anything between curved or square brackets. In my minds eye my macro would read something like this:
Do until last character.
If character = alphanumericTrue Move to next characterFalse If character = spaceTrue Move to next characterFalse If character = curved or square bracketTrue Delete all text in brackets including brackets then move to next characterFalse Delete character then move to next character
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Sub test()
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nm.Delete
Next
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If sh.Visible = xlSheetHidden Then GoTo continue:
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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)
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If intASCIIVal >= 97 And intASCIIVal <= 122 Then
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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")?
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Dim sCorpAcct, sSubdiv As String
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