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Hi Arran
Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream.
"Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback.
-- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it.
What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Hi Arran
Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Unbelievably qiuck reply Roger, thank you. I will play around with it this
evening( being in 8-10 hrs) Many thanks "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Hello again Roger
Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Bad thinking on my part, Change =4 to 2. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hello again Roger Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Changed =4 to 2 as you advised. Resulted in A1 entered data suffixed with *st, nd or th* being returned in B1 as plain numeric numbers & plain numeric numbers in A1 returned as plain numeric in B1 and not *# Value* as you expected. But I inadvertantly typed *2<2* at one point which resulted in all returns in B1 being an exact match as data entered in A1 (1st = 1st, 10th=10th, 1=1, ab=ab etc). Tried it with *2<0,1,2,3,4 and 5, results all ways the same. What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me. Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Bad thinking on my part, Change =4 to 2. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hello again Roger Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... 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What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me I don't know what you mean by *2<* All said was swap =4 for 2. The reason is, if you had entered a number like 1 or 23 in the cell, then because they are less than 3 characters, the term --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) would fail, as it would be trying to take string of 0 or negative characters The amended formula is as below. =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)2,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Changed =4 to 2 as you advised. Resulted in A1 entered data suffixed with *st, nd or th* being returned in B1 as plain numeric numbers & plain numeric numbers in A1 returned as plain numeric in B1 and not *# Value* as you expected. But I inadvertantly typed *2<2* at one point which resulted in all returns in B1 being an exact match as data entered in A1 (1st = 1st, 10th=10th, 1=1, ab=ab etc). Tried it with *2<0,1,2,3,4 and 5, results all ways the same. What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me. Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Bad thinking on my part, Change =4 to 2. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hello again Roger Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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No it wasnt very clear was it now I look again. By accident I replaced =4 with 2<2 instead of simply 2. When I used simply 2, data entered in A1 as 1st, 22nd, 25th etc returned in B1 as, 1, 22, 25. But 2<2 returned in B1, 1st, 22nd, 25th. It is the effect the added <2 was have that I was curious about. To me 2<2 (greater than 2 less than 2) could be replaced with 1 and return the same result but it does not. Hope this makes sense Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me I don't know what you mean by *2<* All said was swap =4 for 2. The reason is, if you had entered a number like 1 or 23 in the cell, then because they are less than 3 characters, the term --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) would fail, as it would be trying to take string of 0 or negative characters The amended formula is as below. =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)2,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Changed =4 to 2 as you advised. Resulted in A1 entered data suffixed with *st, nd or th* being returned in B1 as plain numeric numbers & plain numeric numbers in A1 returned as plain numeric in B1 and not *# Value* as you expected. But I inadvertantly typed *2<2* at one point which resulted in all returns in B1 being an exact match as data entered in A1 (1st = 1st, 10th=10th, 1=1, ab=ab etc). Tried it with *2<0,1,2,3,4 and 5, results all ways the same. What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me. Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Bad thinking on my part, Change =4 to 2. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hello again Roger Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Because you put 2<2 the third IF fails with a False result, thereby returning the last term in the expression, which is to take the contents of A1 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger No it wasnt very clear was it now I look again. By accident I replaced =4 with 2<2 instead of simply 2. When I used simply 2, data entered in A1 as 1st, 22nd, 25th etc returned in B1 as, 1, 22, 25. But 2<2 returned in B1, 1st, 22nd, 25th. It is the effect the added <2 was have that I was curious about. To me 2<2 (greater than 2 less than 2) could be replaced with 1 and return the same result but it does not. Hope this makes sense Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me I don't know what you mean by *2<* All said was swap =4 for 2. The reason is, if you had entered a number like 1 or 23 in the cell, then because they are less than 3 characters, the term --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) would fail, as it would be trying to take string of 0 or negative characters The amended formula is as below. =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)2,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Changed =4 to 2 as you advised. Resulted in A1 entered data suffixed with *st, nd or th* being returned in B1 as plain numeric numbers & plain numeric numbers in A1 returned as plain numeric in B1 and not *# Value* as you expected. But I inadvertantly typed *2<2* at one point which resulted in all returns in B1 being an exact match as data entered in A1 (1st = 1st, 10th=10th, 1=1, ab=ab etc). Tried it with *2<0,1,2,3,4 and 5, results all ways the same. What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me. Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Bad thinking on my part, Change =4 to 2. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hello again Roger Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Roger, many thanks that worked like a dream. "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try using a helper column. In the helper column, enter =--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) and copy down as far as required. Mark both columns and sort by the helper column. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... I cant seem to sort 25th 10th 30th 21st 2nd etc entered data to display as 2nd 10th 21st 25th 30th in descending . All cells have been formated as text before data entered. I am using Excel 2003 |
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Thanks for that, just thought it was an interesting out come. I will leave it there!! Many many thanks for all your help I am gratefull for your time. Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Because you put 2<2 the third IF fails with a False result, thereby returning the last term in the expression, which is to take the contents of A1 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger No it wasnt very clear was it now I look again. By accident I replaced =4 with 2<2 instead of simply 2. When I used simply 2, data entered in A1 as 1st, 22nd, 25th etc returned in B1 as, 1, 22, 25. But 2<2 returned in B1, 1st, 22nd, 25th. It is the effect the added <2 was have that I was curious about. To me 2<2 (greater than 2 less than 2) could be replaced with 1 and return the same result but it does not. Hope this makes sense Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me I don't know what you mean by *2<* All said was swap =4 for 2. The reason is, if you had entered a number like 1 or 23 in the cell, then because they are less than 3 characters, the term --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)) would fail, as it would be trying to take string of 0 or negative characters The amended formula is as below. =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)2,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Changed =4 to 2 as you advised. Resulted in A1 entered data suffixed with *st, nd or th* being returned in B1 as plain numeric numbers & plain numeric numbers in A1 returned as plain numeric in B1 and not *# Value* as you expected. But I inadvertantly typed *2<2* at one point which resulted in all returns in B1 being an exact match as data entered in A1 (1st = 1st, 10th=10th, 1=1, ab=ab etc). Tried it with *2<0,1,2,3,4 and 5, results all ways the same. What exactly is the *2<?* argument doing as it seems an illogical to me. Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Bad thinking on my part, Change =4 to 2. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hello again Roger Interesting things happened when I entered you last version. The changes for text or numeric zeros work seamlessly. With *AND*when true set at 4, any data entered in A1 that was 1st, 2nd etc through to 9th, returned in B1 with A1 format eg 1st 2nd through 9th & was left alined. But any thing higher in A1(10th - 31st) returned in B1 just 10 -31 & was right alined. Interestingly when I changed the *AND* when true to 3 the reverse happened. When changed to 2 everything was suffixed as they where entered in A1 and left alined. Was this what you expcected? Regards Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Thank you for responding and giving details of what you tried, and the results you achieved. If we amend the formula slightly, and make the test for 0 different, one formula should serve all cases. Test for the ASCII code value of the cell being 48 (code for 0) then it will deal with Text zero or Numeric 0 =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6), IF(CODE(LEFT(A1))=48, REPT("Z",6),IF(AND(LEN(A1)=4,ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1))), --(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) I also added an AND to the test of whether the value in cell A1 started with a number to ensure it was 4 characters in length to deal only with ordinals (where we first started) and not to fail if there is a straightforward number other than 0 in the cell. -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hi Roger Yes it was what I wanted, in part. I played around with it using different preformatted cell conditions. As long as A1 was blank *zzzzz* was returned in B1(helper Col). But I neglected to remember that A1 would be populated by *=cell reference to another sheet*. Resulting zero's in A1 caused *#VALUE* to be returned in B1. Tried various other different variations of formula and preformatted cell conditions and came up with the below.They all return *BBBBB* or *ZZZZ* in B1 when A1 is blank or contains a zero, BUT ANY ONE FORMULA DID NOT WORK UNDER ALL CELL FORMATTING CONDITIONS. This worked when A1 is preformatted as TEXT =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1="0",REPT("Z",6),IF(ISN UMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) This worked when A1 is preformatted as NUMBER or DATE, (though in the DATE senario the results looked messy when zero in A1, as I normaly have "Zero Values" deselected it looks OK =IF(A1="",REPT("B",6),IF(A1=0,REPT("Z",6),IF(ISNUM BER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1))) Apologies for long winded mature of this reply but as an inexperienced Excel user I have often read posts & replies that are useful / applicable but they often don't have enough detail for me to implement. In a lot of cases its assummed the OP knows what they are doing. HA HA. So this is my attempt to help other newbies in the future. All I now have to do is figure out how to pick out / delete the data I want in or from ColA!!!! Have seen possible suggestions posted on this group. Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated Arran "Roger Govier" wrote: Hi Arran Try the following =IF(A1="",REPT("Z",255),IF(ISNUMBER(--LEFT(A1)),--(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),A1)) This will make empty cells have 255 Z's in the helper column, and they will sort to the end of the list Text cells will be left exactly as they are. Is this what you wanted? If you want the blank cells to the top of the list, then change the "REPT("Z",255) to 0 -- Regards Roger Govier "Arran" wrote in message ... Hoping this thread is not yet dead as I would like to expand on it. What changes are required to the formula below, so that when there is just text (abcde etc) rather than alpanumeric (25th) in A12 that I get the desired "0" returned rather than"#Value" that I am getting. =IF(A120,--(LEFT(A12,LEN(A12)-2)),0) Taking this one step further. There will be random blank cells in ColA so what would have to be added to the formula so that the sorted list is displayed from the top of the sorted range down rather than the bottom up. Help is always humbly received "Roger Govier" wrote: |
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