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Replacing cells that have 2-3 letters: Sorry for the vague question
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I need to replace the cells that have 2-3 letters is: "Not A Defect Code!!!" I have a sheet that has many different defect codes such as: MC WP MPI,ect,ect All of these will be change to the defect code they represent. I could not figure out how to change a defect code that was improperl entered in such as: "FC": to "Not A Defect Code!!!" thank you for the help Dre -- drew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- drewd's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=1474 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=26371 |
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Replacing cells that have 2-3 letters: Sorry for the vague question
I have done something similar by using Vlookup() , you could have table with the short codes and their descriptions. Then insert column in your data with a Vlookup formula that looks up the short cod in your table, Make sure that you enter the last Parameter of th Vlookup as 'FALSE' this will then lookup the long description for you codes but will produce '#NA' for codes that do not appear in you lookup table. If You need to replace the '#NA' with your error message, an IF formul could be used, something along the lines of =IF(ISNA(D5),"Not A Vali Code!",D5) Someone may well be along soon with a more elegant solution : -- dave_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- dave_d's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=1460 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=26371 |
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