Deleting some content of a cell
 

I have a column that has two words that are divided by the / sign.

I want to delete the first part; for example:
A1 reads: Excel / Access
I want to write a formula that will take the Excel /
And then A1 will equal to Access only.

Please help.

Thanks

Paola

Deleting some content of a cell
 

Hi!

Select the range of cells in question

Goto DataText to Columns
Select Delimited
Click Next
For delimiters, select: space and other
In the little box beside "other" enter a backslash /
Make sure "Treat consecutive delimiters as one" is checked
Click Next
Select: "Do not import column (skip)"
Click Finish

Biff

"PaolaAndrea" wrote in message
...
I have a column that has two words that are divided by the / sign.

I want to delete the first part; for example:
A1 reads: Excel / Access
I want to write a formula that will take the Excel /
And then A1 will equal to Access only.

Please help.

Thanks

Paola

Deleting some content of a cell
 

I have a problem, the column is not consistant and some of the cells are
missing the first part. For Example:

Carlos / Villa
Erica / Puerta
Gallo
Jorge / Sanin

I want Gallo to go to cell B but it stays in cell A because is missing the
/. Is there a way to tell excel to move the content to B is / is missin?

Please advise?

Thank you.

Paola

"Biff" wrote:

Hi!

Select the range of cells in question

Goto DataText to Columns
Select Delimited
Click Next
For delimiters, select: space and other
In the little box beside "other" enter a backslash /
Make sure "Treat consecutive delimiters as one" is checked
Click Next
Select: "Do not import column (skip)"
Click Finish

Biff

"PaolaAndrea" wrote in message
...
I have a column that has two words that are divided by the / sign.

I want to delete the first part; for example:
A1 reads: Excel / Access
I want to write a formula that will take the Excel /
And then A1 will equal to Access only.

Please help.

Thanks

Paola

Deleting some content of a cell
 

Ok, try this formula:

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("/",A1)),A1,MID(A1,FIND("/",A1)+2,255))

Copy down as needed.

Biff

"PaolaAndrea" wrote in message
...
I have a problem, the column is not consistant and some of the cells are
missing the first part. For Example:

Carlos / Villa
Erica / Puerta
Gallo
Jorge / Sanin

I want Gallo to go to cell B but it stays in cell A because is missing the
/. Is there a way to tell excel to move the content to B is / is missin?

Please advise?

Thank you.

Paola

"Biff" wrote:

Hi!

Select the range of cells in question

Goto DataText to Columns
Select Delimited
Click Next
For delimiters, select: space and other
In the little box beside "other" enter a backslash /
Make sure "Treat consecutive delimiters as one" is checked
Click Next
Select: "Do not import column (skip)"
Click Finish

Biff

"PaolaAndrea" wrote in message
...
I have a column that has two words that are divided by the / sign.

I want to delete the first part; for example:
A1 reads: Excel / Access
I want to write a formula that will take the Excel /
And then A1 will equal to Access only.

Please help.

Thanks

Paola

Deleting some content of a cell
 

Paola

a different approach ...

assuming the data starts in cell A1, put this formula in a cell on Row 1,
for example, into cell B1

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("/",A1)),A1,RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("/",A1)-1))

Copy it down. Now copy all the data in the new column and Paste Special |
Values over the original data. You can then delete the new column

Regards

Trevor

"PaolaAndrea" wrote in message
...
I have a problem, the column is not consistant and some of the cells are
missing the first part. For Example:

Carlos / Villa
Erica / Puerta
Gallo
Jorge / Sanin

I want Gallo to go to cell B but it stays in cell A because is missing the
/. Is there a way to tell excel to move the content to B is / is missin?

Please advise?

Thank you.

Paola

"Biff" wrote:

Hi!

Select the range of cells in question

Goto DataText to Columns
Select Delimited
Click Next
For delimiters, select: space and other
In the little box beside "other" enter a backslash /
Make sure "Treat consecutive delimiters as one" is checked
Click Next
Select: "Do not import column (skip)"
Click Finish

Biff

"PaolaAndrea" wrote in message
...
I have a column that has two words that are divided by the / sign.

I want to delete the first part; for example:
A1 reads: Excel / Access
I want to write a formula that will take the Excel /
And then A1 will equal to Access only.

Please help.

Thanks

Paola