If it's always that format and you can use a couple of formulas:
=left(a1,4)
(4 leftmost characters)
=mid(a1,6,255)
(starts at character #6 and goes far enough to the right to get past your 20
character limit.)
Neal Zimm wrote:
Oh yes, one more thing, the original cell contents from left to right a
a 4 digit number,
a blank,
an alphanumeric character string varying from all blanks to a string of 20
characters.
"Earl Kiosterud" wrote:
Neal,
I just noticed that there's a space between aaaa and bbbb. I'll submit the
following formulas instead:
=LEFT(A2, SEARCH(" ", A2)-1)
=RIGHT(A2, LEN(A2)-SEARCH(" ",A2))
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Earl Kiosterud
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"Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message
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Neal,
Excel's macro language is not a keystroke language. The macro recorder
will record whatever data you leave the cell with -- it doesn't care how
you did it.
For your situation, if you want it split in half, you could put a formula
in col's B anc C:
=LEFT(A2, 4) =RIGHT(A2, 4)
To convert the formulas to actual data, copy columns B and C, then do
Paste Special - Values (right over them). now you don't need the original
stuff in Column A any more.
If you splilt the data on something other than 4 characters, tell us what
the criteria is, and we'll go from there.
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Earl Kiosterud
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"Neal Zimm" wrote in message
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I need a work around to the following situation.
I'm editing a lot of cells to split the data into two cells and there is
a
pattern, but Excel is picking up 'keystrokes' I don't want. aaaa is
always a
4 digit number, and bbbb is various text.
Befo
cell 1 cell 2
aaaa bbbb
Desired After:
cell 1 cell 2
aaaa bbbb
I recorded a relative macro, and I get the desired result the first time,
BUT, not the second.
Example:
Befo
cell 1 cell 2
aaaa bbbb
Desired After:
cell 1 cell 2
aaaa bbbb this one works.
next set of two cells, befo
cell 1 cell 2
cccc dddd
After Actual when macro is run:
cell 1 cell 2
aaaa bbbb
even tho' the macro is relative, Excel is obviously remembering the
value's
aaaa and bbbb on subsequent cells; this I do NOT want.
Help? Thanks.
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Neal Z
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