Limiting text entries
In data validation for cell A1, I selected "Custom" and then pasted your
formula. Unfortunately, it did not work and I got the validation error
message. Did I do something wrong?
"Joerg Mochikun" wrote:
As a start for column 1:
For A1 apply the custom validation formula
=MID(A1,LEN(A1)-1,1)=","
This will allow only entries where the second from last character is a
comma.
You can use the AND function to combine more criteria in your formula and
make it as sophisticated as you like.
Joerg
"Help4me" wrote in message
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I have two columns in which I would like to limit the way text is input:
1) Lastname,First initial with no spaces (i.e., Smith,R)
2) One capital letter followed by five digits (i.e., D12345)
I do not have any ideas for column 1.
I can use the Limited Text validation feature for column 2, but that only
limits the number of characters, not the type of characters input.
Thank you so much.
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