Split A Column Into 2 - Use Character Limit That Does Not Cut Words In Half
Jun 11, 2013
I have huge columns of data that can only be 30 characters long. I want to use a formula to split the column into two. The original column will have a character limit of 30, and should not cut words in half. If the Length will be more than 30 while including the entire last word of the cell, that word should be the first displayed in adjacent cell in the 2nd column.
The 2nd column can be any length.
I usually use a Text to Columns method, but dont know how to make it not cut off the words.
I am suffering with split a long descriptions into 3 cells with criteria 1st cell not more than 30 characters, 2nd cell not more than characters and 3rd cell will locate the remaining characters there. I think this is quite easy if I use LEN/MID/RIGHT/LEFT formula. However, I wish the formula will smart enough to split word by word. refer to example below:-
"My lecturer replied, that i really did very bad in final, nothing's gonna change my plan."
If I use left(A1,30) formula, the result is "My lecturer replied, that i re"however, the word "really" is cut half way. I am finding the formula that split description to not more than 30 characters and won't cut my string and become incomplete word. Expected result should be 1st cell "My lecturer replied, that i", then "really did very bad in final," at 2nd cell.
I have two sheets. One containing in cell B2 "1211 - Extra Core Hours" (t_Cost_Centre_data) and then another sheet that displays the data. On the display sheet, there need to be two fields. Event ID and Event Name. The event ID is the "1211" and the name "Extra Core Hours".
My question is, how do I split the reference so that only the ID and name appear in the relevant cell?
Ie Event ID Event Name 1211 Extra Core Hours
Note, the ID's and names will change and they will be multiple.
I am running 2 audits on aspects of patient care. The first audit records a unique number that identifies the patient, and then a series of answers on demographics, and other stuff.
The second audit also records the unique number, and collects some other data on the particular patient at a later point in time (medication usage, levels of pain etc).
So in theory both audits will collect different information on the same patients. In practice, some patients will be missed and there won't be matching data sets. The order of collection won't be the same either, ie Audit 1 might be in the order of Patient 1,2,3,4 etc but Audit 2 might be patient 2,4,1,3
For various reasons these two data collection tools are not linked, and I end up with a spreadsheet for audit 1 and a spreadsheet for audit 2.
I need to merge these so that I can see all of the data for a particular patient at a glance, and where the gaps are, and apply some statistics to it etc. I could sort both lists by the unique audit number so that they are in order, and then copy blocks of data over from one sheet to the next, but there will be records missing, i might make a mistake with the alignment, and I'm sure there must be a better way.
I am using Excel 2010. Each audit case has about 50 columns of data for Audit 1 and 30 columns for Audit 2 . There will be ~20 new records (Rows) created each week that I want to progressively merge.
Part I... I got the answer 1987, and now I want Excel to take the numbers out and display... 1 in one box then i set + in the next, then 9 in the 3ed. box, next box +, then 8, then +, then 7 in the last so that i can have Excel make a SUM of it all to 25.
How do I split 1987 and put the numbers in different boxes?
Part II... I want to make A=1 B=2... all the way up to 9, then start over again with J=1 K=2... up to 9 again and then over again.
So that if I write my name it comes out as a value of 14 (Odd = O=6 D=4 D=4 =14)
(AJSØ=1 BKTÅ=2 CLU=3 DMV=4 ENW=5 FOX=6 GPY=7 HQZ=8 IRÆ=9, It's the Norwegian alphabet, that's why there are some extra letters)
So how do I set up my Excel so that is ANY name is typed in I can get it out into a number from the values assign?
I'm adding some necessary code to the beginning and end of some cell contents in Format | Cells | Custom and I seem to be coming up against a character limit.
I'm using the phrase "!!<"@">!!" to add the code, but with some cell contents the result is ########### (but much longer), and I'm having to remove some of the text to make it work. The limit seems to be around 255 characters.
I'm trying to use the countif function to search a cell containing, say, 1000 alphanumeric characters.
For example, cell A1 contains the text...
"There needs to be an easier way to build worksheet formulas for 64 levels of nesting and 255 arguments to be meaningful. Perhaps a "Formula Composer" dialog box or something that allows you to build up a complex formula in parts and allows you to evaluate the partial formulas. When you're done, and the formula is displayed in the sheet, all of the parentheses would be automatically put in the correct places."
I am using the code below to rename worksheet tabs based on the value in cell B3 on each worksheet. I am getting a run time error attributed to the value in cell B3 exceeding 31 characters. This is the maximum number of characters a worksheet tab can support. some additional code to rename the worksheet tabs and trim the name when 31 character limit is reached? note I need to keep the value in cell B3 as it is but trim the worksheet tab name only.
Code: For I = 1 To Sheets.Count If Worksheets(I).Range("B3").Value "" Then Sheets(I).Name = Worksheets(I).Range("B3").Value Else: Sheets(I).Name = "Default (" & I & ")" End If Next
I'm trying to have the macro limit the cell entry to 5 characters beginning with a "P" and the remaining 4 character being numeric. The problem I'm having is that it's not recognizing the requirement for the beginning "P" but only identifies if the length is less than 5 characters. Any idea how I can resolve this?
For PN2 = 43 To 72 If Not IsEmpty(Cells(PN2, 1)) And Left(Cells(PN2, 1), 1) "P" And Len (Cells(PN2, 1)) 5 Then MsgBox ("The employee number must be 5 characters long begining with P (e.g. P0001), please change accordingly!") Range(Cells(PN2, 1), Cells(PN2 + 2, 1)).ClearContents Cells(PN2, 1).Select End If Next
I have about 2000 rows, all with an amount of words between 2 and 6. I want to limit each row to keep only the first TWO words. Is there a way to do this?
If not, is there a way to limit each row to only keep the first 11 characters?
I am working in Office 2000, and have 3 Textboxes, I need to copy text from Textbox1 and Textbox2 to Textbox3, and the code below works but only when the character length is limited. I need to be able to show much more text. Suggestions. I am trying some of the code
Option Explicit Sub Text_Copy() Dim ch1 As Characters Dim ch2 As Characters Dim ch3 As Characters
With Sheets("Aim Up Description") Set ch1 = .Shapes("TextBox1").TextFrame.Characters Set ch2 = .Shapes("TextBox2").TextFrame.Characters End With With Sheets("Description Summary") Set ch3 = .Shapes("TextBox3").TextFrame.Characters End With ch3.Text = ch1.Text & " " & ch2.Text End Sub
I have found code on other posts that I have tried (like, Range("A16").Value = Val("TextBox1"),
In Userform1 I have several textbox and one commandbutton1. If I mouseclick on a textbox and click commandbutton1 the letters YES is entered in the texbox. To prevent double click entry into the same textbox I set the maximum length property at 3. However, setting the maximum length to 3 does not work. Subsequent commandbutton1 clicks will result in an infinite YES entries.
Is the maximum length property disabled when commandbutton entries are applied?
I have a text box that is set to "=B1". B1 is a cell from an Access table import with memo format. The text memo is long, probably on average between 1000-2000 characters. I have set up the text box to automatically resize for the text, but the text stops at what I assume is 255 characters, even though cell B1 displays the entire memo.
How can I set it up so that this text box (or any other similar shape) displays the text and retains its resize/wrap property?
I have a excel sheet that contains about 8000 entries... I need to create a macro to help me. my file is like this:
123 RT4 eliott.billy mark.garth elena.david
I would like to split first name and last name. All the ligne that contains "." split it in 2. Example: eliott.billy will become eliott (column A) billy (column B)
You know how you can combine different cells and concatenate their values? Can you reverse that? For Example, I have this value "Yambao, Mikhail P." and I want to break them apart so I can use "Yambao" as a reference value to fill up other information concerning that name.
Code: Sub SplitApart() Dim data As String data = Sheets(1).Cells(20, 1).Text For Each EachSplit in Split(data) n = n + 1 Sheets(1).Cells(20, n + 1) = EachSplit Next End Sub
Error code when Debugging on "Split":
"Wrong Number of arguments or invalid property assignment"
I have some data that is imported, it's about 25,000-30,000 characters and 2,300- 3,500 words, it all comes in as one cell, A1, if I do a text to column on it I will loose everything past column IV. Is there anyway a macro can take the data and put each word in a cell by its self starting in A2? The words a have a space between them.
I have a spreadsheet that I have to extract from a web based report at work. The problem is that the column that contains the department name also contains the department code in brackets. For example cell A2 will have: (DE) Department A and cell A3 may be (DEPT) Department B.
Now as seen in the example above a code can range from 2 to 4 letters. I wondered if there was a way in code that would search for the ')' character and copy that to the M column and then copy the department name into the N column. So M2 would have 'DE' and column N2 will have 'Department A'.
Also in column G contains the grade name and grade point which are separated by a '/' I would like this to be copied to 2 separate cells say O2 and P2 and so on.
I know this can be done by a formula but I have to do this every month and it would be nice to just click a button to run a macro in my personal.xls file.
The row number various and are usually several thousand. I have attached a sample spreadsheet that only contains 4 rows of data.
I have created a combination chart comprising a column and a line. The columns to the extreme right and left are half visible (I can only see half of the column).
Look at my two attachments to see what i mean. Attachments: Excel File: http://www.MegaShare.com/235337 Screenshot: OR http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?i...icture1qi7.png
Note: I have cross-posted this thread in excelforum.com: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?t=608124
i have wordlists which i would like to enhance through texts. For that purpose i need a macro which reads a text and splitts it into words and put the words into three columns. Lets assume the column where the words are supposed to be put is columns A,C and E. The column A should contain single words containing no spaces from Text, column C should contain compound words which have one space between them and in column E those compounds which have two spaces. Now i will put my existing wordlist in column G before i start splitting texts. The macro should put only those words from text into column A,C and E which dont already exist in columns A,B,C,D,E,F and G. In Column B i will place the corrected or checked words from column A. In column D i will type the corrections and checked versions of those compunds existing in column C. And the column F will contain the compound words which are corrected and checked from Column E.
Column A--> single words splitted from text through macro (containing no spaces) Column B--> corrected and checked versions of words from column A through user Column C--> compound words containing one space splitted from text through macro (for example:"etwas möchten" or "do something") Column D-->corrected version of C through user Column E-->compound words containing two space splitted from text through macro (for example:"sich uerberzeugen lassen" or "down in dumps") Column F-->corrected E Column G--> existing dictionary wordlist through user
Signes like ".", ":",";", "/" or quotation signe itself should be seen as seperator. And the words or compounds splitted from the text should not contain these signs.
The text will be put in another sheet in the same excel file. Lets call that sheet "text". The macro should search for words through whole sheet ignoring empty cells or columns.
None of the columns should be filtered or ordered. The columns shound not be deleted as well. That way the user wont have to correct the same word each time cus the corrected as well as the original words will be there.
A thread with similar purpose was made sent by AdamDay as well, where rylo has posted a good solution already.
I have a column of words in Column A and I want to replace all the times that these words appear in the rest of the excel sheet with the words in Column B. If someone has already answered a similar problem link me to the thread because I can't find anything.
