Searching Problems With "~" (tilde) In Cells

Jan 22, 2009

Why won't Excel recognise any entry in a cell that contains a ~. For example I have lists of job numbers such as FI9CMR~002 or RE1RE~~004.

The ~ is essential to us in order to pad out the number to 10 characters. This data is exported into excel from another database.

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May 2, 2007

I have the following data

A | B
_______________________
WD |100 From Bangalore
CR |Hyderabad 50
CR |Mysore 70
WD |900 From Kolkata
_________________________
and so on in A and B columns. In the C Column depending on the cell value I want just the places like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mysore, Kolkata etc only to be displayed like shown below.

A | B | C
___________________________________
WD | 100 From Bangalore | Bangalore
CR | Hyderabad 50 | Hyderabad
CR | Mysore 70 | Mysore
WD | 900 From Kolkata | Kolkata
______________________________________
The Places in column B are not at finite position and that is the big problem i am facing when using Left or Right function. Could anyone help me with a proper Excel function to get this done. The thing is the whole cells should be searched and accordingly the output should be obtained.

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I'd also like to be able to add a number "1" in another column on the same row if the search finds a word or words. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If the cell only contains the exact word or string I'm looking for then it's easy but I can't figure out how to search through text in a cell that contains more than I'm looking for.

example: Lets say I'm loooking for "caught fire"
column Q contains:
1 "The computer caught fire after several hours"
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This is what I am currently using but I want it to be more detailed. Where my search is for everything on 1st down with 10 yards to go in a 3R formation.

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20
1
10
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R
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Attached File: Example Find Missing Combinations.xlsm‎

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Code:
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111111

HYEYDH/14
222222

[Code] ..........

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Buyer P/N

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I can easily do a formula for 1 character or a string of characters.

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