Replace with wildcards
 

How do I replace is a list of dates such as "1999" with sp1999 using the
wildcare "*"? When I use the wildcard "*" and try to replace * with sp* the
result is "sp*" instead of the desired "sp1999"

Excell finds 1999 ok using *, but the replacement doesn't work right.

Thanks,

Replace with wildcards
 

Depending on the number of entries you have to replace, maybe you could do each
explicitly.

1999
becoms
sp1999

2000
becomes
sp2000

Or maybe you could use a helper column and a formula like:
="sp" & a1
or
="sp" & year(a1)
(if a1 really contains a date)

PDA wrote:

How do I replace is a list of dates such as "1999" with sp1999 using the
wildcare "*"? When I use the wildcard "*" and try to replace * with sp* the
result is "sp*" instead of the desired "sp1999"

Excell finds 1999 ok using *, but the replacement doesn't work right.

Thanks,

--

Dave Peterson

Replace with wildcards
 

Or even use a custom format (the value doesn't change) of:
mm/dd/\s\pyyyy

or that custom format in a formula in another cell:
=text(a1,"mm/dd/\s\pyyyy")



PDA wrote:

How do I replace is a list of dates such as "1999" with sp1999 using the
wildcare "*"? When I use the wildcard "*" and try to replace * with sp* the
result is "sp*" instead of the desired "sp1999"

Excell finds 1999 ok using *, but the replacement doesn't work right.

Thanks,

--

Dave Peterson