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I have a frequently-updated report with many cells that contain both text and
numbers. Often, the numbers--and only those falling within a certain numerical range--need to increment by a set amount, say four or five. Is there a way to update numbers which fall within a specified numerical range by a specified amount? I know this isn't clear, so here's an example: Say that, in Column A, there are 5000 filled cells, each of which contains various text descriptors with numbers scattered amongst them: Cell A1: Pig, 100, dog, 512, cat, 999, orangutan, 550 Cell A2: Pig, 102, raging bull, 551, cow, 601 Cell A3: Rabid dog, 201 What I need to do is tell Excel to look through all of the cells and, whenever it finds numbers between 500 and 600, to increase them by 4, but to leave everything else alone. The desired result would be: Cell A1: Pig, 100, dog, 516, cat, 999, orangutan, 554 Cell A2: Pig, 102, raging bull, 555, cow, 601 Cell A3: Rabid dog, 201 I know I can just do a series of find/replace actions, but this report updates often and the range of numbers that may need to update varies frequently as well (not to mention the increment change amount, so it's a whole lot of work. Is there a macro or add-in that will do a find-replace using criteria that the user will supply, perhaps via a user form? I know a little VBA, but this is pretty complicated and I have no idea. If text and numbers were iin separate cells, I'm sure this would be easier, but unfortunately I have to work with the yucky report that I'm given. I would really, really appreciate any help on this. I'm in way over my head. |
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