I have a cell range (A1:A4) that contains the following information

When Assigned Organization is XYZ, change Assigned POC to Black, Jack,
change Assigned Alt. POC to Doe, Jane, and change Substitute POC to
White, Jack
When Assigned Department is X-A/7, change Assigned POC to Young, Jim,
change Assigned Alt. POC to Brown, Frank, and change Substitute POC to
Stewart, Rod
When Assigned Group is X-B (XMO/ABC), change Assigned POC to Simon,
Paul, change Assigned Alt. POC to Bowie, David, and change Substitute
POC to Miller, Steve
When Assigned Staff is Staffing Personnel (SP), change Assigned POC to
Simon, Paul, change Assigned Alt. POC to Bowie, David, and change
Substitute POC to Miller, Steve

I need to split this cell range into several different columns. I
need cells B1:B4 to contain the string of characters between “When”
and “is”. For example, B1:B4 will contain the following:

Assigned Organization
Assigned Department
Assigned Group
Assigned Staff

I need cells C1:C4 to contain the string of characters between “is”
and the first “,”. C1:C4 will contain the following:
XYZ
X-A/7
X-B (XMO/ABC)
Staffing Personnel (SP)

D1:D4 will contain the “Assigned POC”. E1:E4 will contain the
“Assigned Alt. POC” and F1:F4 will contain the “Substitute POC”

I’ve tried the RIGHT, LEFT, LEN and FIND functions but I can’t get the
correct combination to solve this. Can anyone help?

Thanks for your help in advance

I would suggest a macro using selectcase. Send file to dguillett1
@gmail.com with this msg and examples

On Dec 1, 10:25*am, Willie wrote:
I have a cell range (A1:A4) that contains the following information

When Assigned Organization is XYZ, change Assigned POC to Black, Jack,
change Assigned Alt. POC to Doe, Jane, and change Substitute POC to
White, Jack
When Assigned Department is X-A/7, change Assigned POC to Young, Jim,
change Assigned Alt. POC to Brown, Frank, and change Substitute POC to
Stewart, Rod
When Assigned Group is X-B (XMO/ABC), change Assigned POC to Simon,
Paul, change Assigned Alt. POC to Bowie, David, and change Substitute
POC to Miller, Steve
When Assigned Staff is Staffing Personnel (SP), change Assigned POC to
Simon, Paul, change Assigned Alt. POC to Bowie, David, and change
Substitute POC to Miller, Steve

I need to split this cell range into several different columns. *I
need cells B1:B4 to contain the string of characters between “When”
and “is”. *For example, B1:B4 will contain the following:

Assigned Organization
Assigned Department
Assigned Group
Assigned Staff

I need cells C1:C4 to contain the string of characters between “is”
and the first “,”. *C1:C4 will contain the following:
XYZ
X-A/7
X-B (XMO/ABC)
Staffing Personnel (SP)

D1:D4 will contain the “Assigned POC”. *E1:E4 will contain the
“Assigned Alt. POC” and F1:F4 will contain the “Substitute POC”

I’ve tried the RIGHT, LEFT, LEN and FIND functions but I can’t get the
correct combination to solve this. *Can anyone help?

Thanks for your help in advance

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:25:51 -0800 (PST), Willie wrote:

I have a cell range (A1:A4) that contains the following information

When Assigned Organization is XYZ, change Assigned POC to Black, Jack,
change Assigned Alt. POC to Doe, Jane, and change Substitute POC to
White, Jack
When Assigned Department is X-A/7, change Assigned POC to Young, Jim,
change Assigned Alt. POC to Brown, Frank, and change Substitute POC to
Stewart, Rod
When Assigned Group is X-B (XMO/ABC), change Assigned POC to Simon,
Paul, change Assigned Alt. POC to Bowie, David, and change Substitute
POC to Miller, Steve
When Assigned Staff is Staffing Personnel (SP), change Assigned POC to
Simon, Paul, change Assigned Alt. POC to Bowie, David, and change
Substitute POC to Miller, Steve

I need to split this cell range into several different columns. I
need cells B1:B4 to contain the string of characters between “When”
and “is”. For example, B1:B4 will contain the following:

Assigned Organization
Assigned Department
Assigned Group
Assigned Staff

I need cells C1:C4 to contain the string of characters between “is”
and the first “,”. C1:C4 will contain the following:
XYZ
X-A/7
X-B (XMO/ABC)
Staffing Personnel (SP)

D1:D4 will contain the “Assigned POC”. E1:E4 will contain the
“Assigned Alt. POC” and F1:F4 will contain the “Substitute POC”

I’ve tried the RIGHT, LEFT, LEN and FIND functions but I can’t get the
correct combination to solve this. Can anyone help?

Thanks for your help in advance

The following VBA Macro will parse the contents of each cell in column A in accordance with your specifications, given data as you have presented.

Important: As written, it will also clear the contents in columns B:F for any cell in column A that is not blank. This could be changed.

sPat is an array that contains the various regular expression patterns to match your text strings and extract the desired substring.

To enter this Macro (Sub), <alt-F11 opens the Visual Basic Editor.
Ensure your project is highlighted in the Project Explorer window.
Then, from the top menu, select Insert/Module and
paste the code below into the window that opens.

To use this Macro (Sub), <alt-F8 opens the macro dialog box. Select the macro by name, and <RUN.

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Option Explicit
Sub ParsePOC()
Dim rg As Range, c As Range
Dim re As Object, mc As Object
Dim s As String
Dim i As Long, j As Long
Dim sPat As Variant
Set rg = Range("A1", Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp))
Set re = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
With re
.Global = True
.MultiLine = True
.ignorecase = True
End With
sPat = Array("When\s+([\s\S]+?)(?=\s+is)", _
"is\s+([^,]+)", _
"Assigned\s+POC\s+to\s+([\s\S]+?)(?=,\s+change)", _
"Alt\.\s+POC\s+to+\s+([\s\S]+?)(?=,\s+and)", _
"Substitute\s+POC\s+to\s+([\s\S]+)$")

Range(rg(1, 2), rg(rg.Rows.Count - 1, 6)).ClearContents
For Each c In rg
re.Pattern = "[\r\n]+"
s = Trim(re.Replace(c.Text, " "))
For i = LBound(sPat) To UBound(sPat)
re.Pattern = sPat(i)
If re.test(s) = True Then
Set mc = re.Execute(s)
c(1, i - LBound(sPat) + 2).Value = mc(0).submatches(0)
End If
Next i
Next c

End Sub
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