I have text like this in my cells:
ABCD-234BN
ANC-23FD
AFLDDS-23
I would like to simply remove all of the character after the "-", including the "-". Since the dash is in a different spot, I can't just use the MID or LEFT function.
I 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")? blankor 0would exclude these numbers, i.e. would return "nlgahighstreeten"
let'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?
May 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
I'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, "/*", "")
I 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?
I 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
I 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
i 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
there 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.
I 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
The 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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Range("A:A").Select
Selection.Replace What:="_", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
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What I need to do is take a variable which holds a string and remove the last 9 characters from it. Don't need to know what the last 9 characters are, all I care about is knowing what the other characters are in the string. I know this can be done through thingslike susbstrings, but I don't think VBA has a substring function.
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I 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.
my values within column A are separated by a dash. I'd like column B to continuously copy column A with the exception of the characters after the dash. example:
____A_____________B
12345-456_______12345
22456-333_______22456
1553665-45______15553665
How can I format cell B to constantly reproduce this result?
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CHD152-2
CHD115-1
CHD40-3
RE224
HPC644R
DOC020R
HPC594R
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CHD152
CHD115
CHD40
RE224
HPC644
DOC020
HPC594
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See attached file.
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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)
刘传佳刘传佳刘传佳2001425刘传佳 刘传佳 刘传佳2001425钟才富 钟才富 钟才富800857张杰 张杰 张杰#N/A
A string contain a number like AB12345 or B7845 How could I remove the alphabetic characters and keep only the number.
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Issue is, sheet names allow characters that range names do no (i.e. #, - etc).
Is there a relatively simple way to clean a sheet name to allow it to be used as a range name.
Code example below. I am using Replace, but unsure how many characters are invalid. Unfortunately I am referencing a third party workbook, so no control over sheet names.
Sub test()
Dim sh As Worksheet, shnm As String, wb As Workbook
Set wb = ThisWorkbook
For Each nm In wb.Names
nm.Delete
Next
For Each sh In wb.Sheets
If sh.Visible = xlSheetHidden Then GoTo continue:
