Search Through Cells With Alphabet Characters
Dec 20, 2007
I have a worksheet with a list of ID Numbers:
for example:
A1001
A1002
A1003
:
etc,
I purchased the book from Mr.Excel and got it last week called VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel. I can't seem to find the code for macros to search through the cells and then either change the cell colour to highlight the cells that contains an alphabetical character. I am trying to remove all the characters in the cells so only the numbers are left over.
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Oct 5, 2008
I have a column of values of peoples initials and I want to cound how many times one persons initials occur in those cells. I can do this if the cells just contain one person i.e. "CH" or "DH" but if the cell has two or more peoples initials i.e. "CD DH" I can't do it as it only matches the exact search criteria.
How can I total the numebr of times a required set of initials appears in a specific column of cells? Not bothered is it requires a macro or a formulae, just can't seem to figure this one out.
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Nov 13, 2006
I have a sheet A1:R456 provided from an outside source, with many large text entries. In some of them appear various ascii strings such as, but not exclusively: •
It appears these have replaced apostrophe's, dashes, and other types of punctuation and formatting (bullets, etc).
I have used the Find (Ctrl-F) to locate some, but it only works if you know what you're looking for. According to Excel HELP! :o Clean() only strips the lower 32 ascii codes, and I'm pretty sure these are at the high end of the ascii chart.
I don't want to remove them, I want to replace them, but I'm not sure if it should be an apostrophe, a dash, or whatever. So I'd be happy to find them and I'll fix it as best I can.
Any VBA code to locate all cells in a range that contain any high-order ascii (say above 127) and fill with yellow?
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Oct 14, 2009
I have a worksheet that I produced from optical character recognition, and there are a lot of funky characters that I need to get rid of. One is a line break or carraige return (I assume it's the same character that I could insert by entering ALT+ENTER). How do I search for this special character to replace it? How do I identify what that invisible character is?
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Nov 21, 2009
I have about 700 cells I want to interrogate. Within each cell the following text appears “Estimate – BOLB/02/1234 – Some more text here”. I want to search all the cells and delete the cell contents but leave the “BOLB/02/1234”.
The problem I have is that the string is different in each cell but the format is the same. It always starts with BOLB followed by /, followed by 2 numbers, followed by / followed by 4 numbers i.e. BOLB/**/****.
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Nov 24, 2006
I want to search a string for specific characters.
f.e. Begin = "bfPaa2"
I want to look for "P"
So, the answer has to be: Letter = "P" after searching the string
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Jun 20, 2007
I have done a search on carriage returns/characters and what has been suggested is not working. I have BOTH carriage returns in the cell and also the boxes (that I assume are also carriage returns. I tried the substitute formula (=substitute(cellref,char(10),)) in excel but it only removes the alt+enter carriage return. I tried the various suggestions of find & replace but the chr$..etc did not work! Is there a formula to clear both in one (not a macro!)..?
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Jul 10, 2012
I have a sheet with Names in it. I need to look those names up and find which org they belong to. The problem is the the names have many characters after them, and many names belong to a few orgs, with a the rest belonging to many orgs. (See below)
I have been trying to get a Vlookup to work, but since it can't go left, it won't look up the orgs that don't own at least three names. And I can't get the search to work on the names.
Names:
WSGHG1-8410YFH
WSSMXG-8401B8T
NBSMXG-0310V6R
NBXG-0310V6V
[code]....
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Jul 31, 2014
in VBA how would I script to search down column and if the cells starts with "20" delete the first 13 characters?
also if it finds more than 10 empty rows it cuts the loop otherwise I may be waiting a while
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May 16, 2014
Is there a way to force Excel to look at only the first characters in a field when searching?
If I use:
MySearch = Range("C3").Value
Cells.Find(What:=MySearch, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt _
:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:= _
False, SearchFormat:=False).Activate
It will find any instance of the characters entered in C3; however, I want it to find only fields that START with those characters. E.g. if I enter TRA in the search box it will come up with CITRATE when I want TRACLEER, etc.
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Dec 18, 2009
I have a querry- file search application macro which searches all directories and subdirectories found within the provided string path and brings in specific data from spreadsheets in those directories. I would like to have the ability to exclude some of the subdirectories which are currently being querried.
I'm wondering if it is possible to add additional code that will allow me to either include or exclude specific directories being querried.
Here's an excerpt of the ....
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Aug 21, 2009
I' having trouble using the =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH formula to search multiple cells.
I can get it to work to search one cell (as below):
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Same",G10)),"No Change",'Aug 09 Matrix'!F10)
(In this case the respone is No Change as Cell G10 contains "Same")
However cannot get it to work for several cells. I have pasted below and highlighted the function I would like it to perform:
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Same",G10:R10)),"No Change",'Aug 09 Matrix'!F10)
Essentially the other cells in that row (G10:R10) all contain "Same", however for some reason it is identifying this as FALSE and putting in the data from the 'Aug 09 Matrix' sheet.
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Nov 23, 2009
I've found a few threads, but I'm not finding my answer. I need to start with AA in L2 and Fill down until Column I is "".
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Apr 29, 2009
i am a having a text in 5th column. now i want to know the alphabet corresponding to the column i.e E (for 5th column)in my code
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Nov 5, 2008
I want to use the SumIf function to sum cells when other cells begin with certain characters.
I've toyed with a few ideas of how this could work, but i don't know how to specify that the cells need to begin with certain characters. The cells that would be the criteria and the ones that would be summed come out of an Oracle database (and i have no control over the way they're pulled out - yet) so the beginning characters are connected to extremely unique information, so i dont want that to be included in the if part, for obvious reasons.
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Dec 4, 2013
If I have value "H" in cell C1, how would i have "I" in cell C2 and "J" in cell C3.
FYI : next 2 alphabet after "H".
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Jan 18, 2014
I need a formula to verify whether a cell contains Alphabet or not.
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Aug 5, 2014
I export data to Excel and now I have date like
05-08-14
06-08-14
70-08-14
If I change the Date format to AUG-14 and than pivot it than its coming in tree column which I need only 1 for whole month
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Oct 22, 2009
Col A has a list, mixture of letters and numbers. By default excel sorts the numbers in order and then the letters. How do I display the letters A-Z first and then the numbers?!
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Aug 15, 2013
I wanted to know whether this can be done in excel-- i.e connecting image with a alphabet .
What I want is , when I click on a alphabet on my keyboard , a particular preadjusted image(by the user) must appear . Is it possible??
Is there any way I can create this program in excel.?
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May 5, 2009
I have data that I converted from txt. The problem is, upon conversion it has spaces at the end. For example:
"Monkey "
"Elephant "
"Birds "
What I need to do to remove the spaces?
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May 1, 2008
I need to sort a series of fraternity chapters. I have a list of the chapters that has been alphabetically sorted but this is a problem.
When sorted alphabetically, the list will show as:
Alpha
Alpha Alpha
Alpha Beta
Alpha Gamma
Etc…
When it needs to be sorted:
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
-
Omega
(and then)
Alpha Alpha
Alpha Beta
Alpha Gamma
Etc…
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Jul 9, 2009
Does anybody have a formula to use to auto enter an alphabet? With this formula I would like the last letter in the alphabet Z to be followed by AA, AB, etc. If I delete row 5 (letter E) I would need the letters to auto generate in order.
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Nov 28, 2009
for instance if i type in a particular cell any number 1, 0, 53 .. excel must not allow me to do this...
but there are certain value that have both number and alphatbets eg. 001 michael jordan ... cell should allow such values.
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May 11, 2008
I want to be able to type 'A' in cell A1, then autofill down to get:
A1: A
A2: B
A3: C
A4: D
A5: E
Etc.
Once I get to cell A26, which would be "Z", I want to continue to get:
A26: Z
A27: AA
A28: AB
A29: AC
A30: AD
how I could do this? I tried dragging cell A1 down but it just returns the result of "A" in all the rows.
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Aug 2, 2008
I need a formula to remove all alphabet in a cell,for instance:-
A1=130 sheets returns 130
A2=118pcs returns 118
A3=approx123 returns 123
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Jun 6, 2012
DurationDate4w24-Feb-126w3-Apr-126w22-May-122m31-May-126w?7m
I need a formula to add a value for example to (w=5 and m=2) and ? must result in [6w+ date above ? i.e-31-May-12].
Also note if w is changed to m, then formula also must evaluate value for m ie 2.
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May 8, 2014
I have M106 = 4
I need a simple formula to convert that into column Alphabet + 1
So 4 will be Column E (A,B,C,D and 4th will be D+1= E)
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Dec 1, 2009
Is it possible to take a list that is alphabetized in the following manner--Jones, Mary--, convert it to Mary Jones while also removing the comma after the name?
The =TRIM and =MID formulas that I saw in another thread both seem to convert the text, but they also leave the comma at the end.
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Mar 20, 2009
I have a long list of names and right now I have to scroll down the list like crazy to get to some of the letters (xyz for example).
I really wanted to setup a clickable row or column that has one letter in each row or column, but I'm not sure I can do that as the sheet is already formatted. But I could just use one cell where I could click in it and type a letter which would jump me to the portion of the list that starts with that letter.
or I guess maybe something that pops up a requestor for me to enter the letter.
I found some stuff that was close on here that had some of the functionality I needed, but I couldn't piece it together.
I'm trying to go through David's books, but I haven't had a lot of time and I'm not getting some of the basics.
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