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VLookup and text strings
Hello, I am using the vlookup function. I have values that have three to nine
text characters followed by numbers. Examples are COM-123, COM-124, ABCD-12, ABCD-13, etc,. The number of letters may be 2-9. I want to modfiy my lookup formula so that COM-123 returns the value COM. Or ABCD-13, returns the value ABCD. Any help appreciated. |
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VLookup and text strings
That is not what VLOOKUP is used for. See
http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/exc...320vlookup.htm This returns the letters: =LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-1) This returns the number: =--MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,99) best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "bmac" wrote in message ... Hello, I am using the vlookup function. I have values that have three to nine text characters followed by numbers. Examples are COM-123, COM-124, ABCD-12, ABCD-13, etc,. The number of letters may be 2-9. I want to modfiy my lookup formula so that COM-123 returns the value COM. Or ABCD-13, returns the value ABCD. Any help appreciated. |
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VLookup and text strings
I want to modfiy my lookup formula so that
COM-123 returns the value COM. Or ABCD-13, returns the value ABCD. In other words, you want everything the the left of the dash? A1 = COM-123 =LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-1) -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "bmac" wrote in message ... Hello, I am using the vlookup function. I have values that have three to nine text characters followed by numbers. Examples are COM-123, COM-124, ABCD-12, ABCD-13, etc,. The number of letters may be 2-9. I want to modfiy my lookup formula so that COM-123 returns the value COM. Or ABCD-13, returns the value ABCD. Any help appreciated. |
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VLookup and text strings
Thanks, I probably did not explain this well about VLookup -- however, your
solution works much better, thanks! "Bernard Liengme" wrote: That is not what VLOOKUP is used for. See http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/exc...320vlookup.htm This returns the letters: =LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-1) This returns the number: =--MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,99) best wishes -- Bernard Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme "bmac" wrote in message ... Hello, I am using the vlookup function. I have values that have three to nine text characters followed by numbers. Examples are COM-123, COM-124, ABCD-12, ABCD-13, etc,. The number of letters may be 2-9. I want to modfiy my lookup formula so that COM-123 returns the value COM. Or ABCD-13, returns the value ABCD. Any help appreciated. . |
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