Removing Text From Item Descriptions On Mass?
Oct 28, 2013
I have about 10,000 part numbers all with descriptions. These descriptions do not follow a uniform logic;
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Part 1: 5x10 Red Cotton candy
Part 2: Yellow 6/18 x7 TTC x11 Picture Frame
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My dilemma is that I need to figure out a way to remove everything aside from the "5x10" and "6/18 x7 TTC x11" from these descriptions. I just need the the item sizing.
What I've come up with so far is sorting items by description and working with batches of similar descriptions, then doing replace "Red*" with "blank". It works but it still takes me too much time and it's not perfect.
My question is there something else I can do that is easier and more accurate?
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May 22, 2009
I have a file with thousands of records and on the name field, I have case like this:
1 "John Dough"
2 "John Dough "
As a result, when I pivot the data, I see duplicate lines for the same name. How can I eliminate the extra spaces at the end (row 2 and 3 above)?
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May 21, 2013
I'm trying to write a formula which will return postcodes from a list of descriptions which aren't consistent in their layout.
For example, I need this to happen
UB3 3NQ - APR13
SW3 5RQ - APR13
Jul 12 - apr13 accrual - ME9 4FW
Mar 12 - apr13 accural - SO14 7P2
Returned to another column as,
UB3 3NQ
SW3 5RQ
ME9 4FW
SO14 7P2
The issue I'm having is that the postcodes aren't in the same place in order to use LEFT, RIGHT or MID functions, and they aren't always proceeded or followed by dashes or spaces in the same way.
I need the returned postcodes to come back in a uniform way so that any duplicates are grouped by the relevant pivot table.
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Jun 23, 2014
I have a couple of listboxes and use the mouseup event to do stuff with the row that's clicked.
When a new listbox is clicked I'd like to remove the highlighting or selection from the last one.
I thought this would do it
".Selected(x)= true" where x would be that listbox's list index. But no.
Is there another way?
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Apr 19, 2014
I'm trying to automatically add and remove one criterion from an autofilter without disturbing the previous existing criteria The autofilter code sounds like this:
Code:
ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$L$47").AutoFilter Field:=6, Criteria1:=Array( _
"Clay", "Grass"), Operator:=xlFilterValues
How would I go about referring to this array and adding another item called "Hard" to any pre-existing elements in this array?
I plan on attaching this code to a button and use it as a filter, so when the button is pressed, the item will be added to the list of criteria, and if it is "un-pressed" the item will be removed.
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Apr 11, 2013
I'm trying to convert some data which excel is reading as text into numbers for example I have:
[Code] ......
All the numbers I've imported from an app analytics company into excel which are greater than 1.0 appear as numbers (to the right side of the cell) and all the numbers less than 1.0 appear as text (to the left side of the cell). I want all the numbers appearing as text to appear as numbers so I can multiply them with other cells.
I've clicked format cells - number but this has no effect. I click format cells -protection - unlocked but this has no effect.
I have thousands of rows with all numbers less than 1.0 as text instead of numbers. What's the easiest way to mass convert them all to numbers seeing as the above options haven't worked.
I don't want to have to click through thousands of rows to edit it manually...
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Mar 28, 2014
I have a column C with different text in cells (item's title). Column D - relevant description for each of the items. 100+ rows.
Now, unfortunately, often a spreadsheet with items is updated with many new items. So I get a new spreadsheet with old and new items mixed. I need, somehow, to import descriptions of the old items (Column D of the old spreadsheet) to the new spreadsheet from old spreadsheet. So I want excel to look for old items in column A of the new spreadsheet and, once found, insert a description in the column B from old spreadsheet.
See attachment : Example for forum.xlsx
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Dec 5, 2013
I am currently using the below formula to extract various fields from a spreadsheet:-
{=IFERROR(INDEX(Funding_Stream_All_Data.rdl!$I$1:$I$999999,MATCH(1,(Funding_Stream_All_Data.rdl!$B$1:$B$999999=$C$8)*(Funding_Stream_All_Data.rdl!$D$1:$D$999999=$A19),0)),"0.00")}
Which would be fine if the description in column B of my data only appeared once.
How do I sum the total of all those that have the same description?
Data Example
Column A Column B Column C
Code Description Value
SL10107 Test Data £100.00
SL10107 Test Data £100.00
SL10107 Test Data £100.00
Using the formula {=IFERROR(INDEX(Column C,MATCH(1,(Column A=SL10107)*(Column B=Test Data0,0)),"0.00")} I get the answer £100, i.e. it is Matching the Code SL10107, and then matching the Description of Test Data and then returning the first value, £100. However I would like to sum these entries and get the answer of £300.
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Aug 25, 2009
I think I need a modified SUMIF formula but I can't figure it. The attached spreadsheet is a sample of what I need. I'm using Excel 2003.
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Sep 16, 2009
I have a site that sells over 5000 products.
I have two sheets.
One is a Master which has all of the following information in each column.
Product ID = A, Product Name=B, Price=C, Category=D ,Product Description =E,
The other sheet Is a updated product description.
Now I want to Be able to copy and add the new descriptions into the Master but not sure how to add them so they will fall into the proper spot according to the Product ID... There are not descriptions in the Update sheet for all the Product IDs in the Master.
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Aug 28, 2013
I have decriptions in Col B on sheet1. I would like a macro to do the following
1) Extract descriptions that contain the following text to sheet2 (including Cols A:B)
sale, sales, fact assist , discount, DIC & rebates, F & I (for eg sale pine desk, fact assist pine desk, discount retail desk, F & I sales)
2) Extract descriptions that contain the following text to sheet3 (including Cols A:B)
COS, O/allowance (for eg COS pine desk, O/allowance,
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Apr 9, 2008
I have a chart which has two labels at the bottom under the x axis. Is there any way to remove these without removing the data?
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Jan 31, 2012
I am trying to remove a middle initial from a text string however not all of the cells have middle initials. In column B I would like to return the first and last name. If needed I can have the first name in column B and the last in column C then combine them.
Example
John A Smith John Smith
John Smith John Smith
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Dec 5, 2006
i would like to take the first letter of a cell and add 1000 to it.
At the minute, ive only been able to take away the first letter which isnt what i want to do
so far i had
=RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-1)
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Feb 9, 2010
I have a form for calculating costs of products ordered which imports quantity and descriptions from another sheet. The imported info and basic calculation of appropriate cost based on ordered quantity seems to work okay. These formulas are as follows:
First column: =IF(ORDER!A5>0, ORDER!A5, "") inserts the quantity ordered
Second Column: =IF(ORDER!A5>0, "Part Description and Part Number", "") inserts the product description
Both those formulas return a blank cell if nothing is ordered. Then using an outlying cell (G3) I enter the following formula to determine appropriate cost based on total order quantity e.g. $2.57ea if total ordered quantity is less than 50 and $2.37 if total quantity is greater than 50.. {Q: How do I put a third pricing level in here??}
=IF(SUM(A5:A27)>50,"$2.57","$2.37")................
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Dec 29, 2008
I have a column of data which has numbers and units (small example below).
I need to remove the text (units) and at the same time multiply the number by a value which is based on what the text is:
-999.9uA needs to become -999.9*10^-6
-98.40mA needs to become -98.40*10^-3
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Sep 13, 2008
I have 2 columns of data which contains mainly numbers that are either 9 or 10 digits long. However some have got so words at he end which is what I want to remove. I thought of using text to colums but there is no space or symbol between the number and text.
An example is
0111111100ddddfffffddd
or
0222222222ddddd ffffff ddddd
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Jan 3, 2013
An externally generated CSV file gives us one column which shows a location, year and then individual names in brackets, like so:
London 2013 (Firstname Lastname)
Delhi 2012 (Firstname Lastname)
I'm wondering if it is possible to separate out the text before the parentheses, so that I can show "London 2012" (for example) in another cell. The number of characters changes from row to row, so using the LEFT and RIGHT functions doesn't quite do the job.
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May 25, 2013
I have a spreadsheet which reads:
A1 E012345678
A2 126789433
A3 ABCDEFGH
A4 CDEEGFFH
A5 E0456783
A6 98765432
etc.
I need only the the data in Cells A1 A5 etc. which means the 3 cells below (A2, A3, A4 ) should be deleted. A5 I need the data, and then A6, A7, A8 I do not need ... A9 need and so on.
the data should be in in one below the next with no spaces in between.
Data is only in column A.
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Feb 16, 2009
i have a sheet dealing with part numbers and a paramiter exported from a programme.
L=1000MM | L/R is an example.
now
i use replace to get rid of everything before the number but anything after the mm is totaly different most of the time.
is there a way that i can get rind of anything after, and including, the mm?
or by some chance a command that will just leave me with the number allone?
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Jan 26, 2010
Attached is a sample sheet with nine columns. Column D includes a name, but in many cases it is preceeded by: 'TO', 'BY', or 'OF' and a space which I need to remove (if they exist), leaving just the name. Please note that sometimes just the name exists so nothing needs to be done. I believe that in a jet sql querie I can use something like:
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Oct 18, 2011
I have imported data and it shows "Check 1234". How can I use a formula to remove "check" from this cell?
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Feb 11, 2013
I belong to a fantasy cycling league and after every race, I copy the race results to award each rider their points for the day. The site I visit most frequently lists the riders results in this format:
1. Alberto Contador (Spa) Team Sax Bank Tinkoff 4:05:00
2. Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Livestrong etc... 4:06:00
I usually copy the results to my spreadsheet then calculate each riders points.
The'results end up looking like this in Excel:
1. Alberto Contador (Spa) Team Sax Bank Tinkoff 4:05:00
2. Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Livestrong 4:06:00
So, the data ends up in 3 cells. The position in one cell, the rider and their nationality and their team in another, and the time of arrival in another cell
Is there a way in Excel where I can get rid of or delete all the data after a rider's name?
I usually end up pasting the rider information to Word, then replacing the (***) with a tab symbol, then pasting back to Excel and get rid of the data that's after the name by deleting the cells to which that data was transferred.
Is there an easier way to do this in Excel, or a macro I can create?...
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Sep 17, 2007
E122112 David Hall
Robert Townsend
Micheal Keel
Tanya Smith
Elizabeth Charles
E004587 Andrea Tummings
The problem is for those names that come thorugh with the Letter and than the number...I don't need the names like that....I would like a Macro that would look at each cell in column A and remove that from those selected cells. I would like my result to look like this...
David Hall
Robert Townsend
Micheal Keel
Tanya Smith
Elizabeth Charles
Andrea Tummings
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Jun 4, 2009
I have a bunch of cells that have City and Zip Code combinations.
Ex: Chicago 606
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SACRAMENTO 95691
Some of them are 3 digit zips and others are 5 digits. I just want to weed out anything with a number leaving the city names.
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Mar 20, 2014
I've got 2 columns.
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Column B, Item Cost
In Column B, it will display the item cost as either a numerical value, (example $1.00) or it will say "disco" for discontinued.
I want to update the item description in Column A by adding the work "disco" if Column B display's "disco". If column B display's any numerical value (0-999999999) then I would it to do nothing.
what IF formula I need to accomplish this?
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Eg Any item containing the string 'safeway' is categorised as 'General expenses'. So the list on Sheet 2 has an item called 'safeway' and in the next column 'General expenses'.
And for the item on Sheet 1 'BPAYN BUPA AUSTRALIA BPAY MBF monthly' I have an item in Sheet 2 that is simply 'BUPA' with category 'Medical expenses'.
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Oct 3, 2010
We often get spreadsheets from our customer that are formatted with both comma and dash combinations. We would like to only have the comma seperation.
Example:
R1, R2, R3-R5, R30
Result:
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R30
There is usually only one alpha character but sometimes more. Example: CR1, CR2, CR3-CR5.
The following macro works great if there are no alpha characters. how to solve the alpha/numeric combination?
Function Nums(rng As Range) As String
Dim adnum As Integer, n As Integer, num, Txt As String
num = Split(rng, ",")
[Code]....
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Feb 16, 2013
Excel Userform
VB:
'enables user to click [U]highlight and select[/U] an item in ListBox1 and ListBox2 item (same row in index) is also [U]highlighted[/U] (highlighted only not selected)
Private Sub ListBox1_Click()
ListBox2.ListIndex = ListBox1.ListIndex
End Sub
Question: Is it also possible to enable a user to click to select an item in ListBox1 and ListBox2 item is also selected simultaneously (same row in index). Is there excel vb code to do this?
I think the code may be along the lines of the ListBox SelectedIndex property. What would be the Excel VB code equivilant for the ListBox SelectedIndex property, if so?
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Sheet 1 - Films
How To Apply Bridal Makeup
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Tech - Microsoft - windows vista xp word excel
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