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Extracting a word from a text string
I have a text string describing a laptop "Toshiba 17" LCD black". There are
hundreds of tme with different sizes of the screen. I want to be able to extract the screen size 17", 14" etc and put them in a new cell for further analysis. Can anyone help? |
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Extracting a word from a text string
With your laptop description in cell A1, you can use this formula to
pull the screen size. This formula assumes the screen size will ALWAYS include a double quote to indicate inches, and will ALWAYS be three characters long. =MID(A1,SEARCH(CHAR(34),A1,1)-2,3) |
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With your laptop description in cell A1, you can use this formula to
pull the screen size. This formula assumes the screen size will ALWAYS include a double quote to indicate inches, and will ALWAYS be three characters long. =MID(A1,SEARCH(CHAR(34),A1,1)-2,3) |
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Extracting a word from a text string
Thanks a ton Dave. It helped.
"Dave O" wrote: With your laptop description in cell A1, you can use this formula to pull the screen size. This formula assumes the screen size will ALWAYS include a double quote to indicate inches, and will ALWAYS be three characters long. =MID(A1,SEARCH(CHAR(34),A1,1)-2,3) |
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