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I am trying to abbreviate text in my description column.
I have created a service and product list for a our company. I am trying to
abbreviate the description of the service or product in order to fit it in our service or product ID Number column. Does anyone have a formula to preform such tasks. I have of 3000 different items that I need to abbreviate. |
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I am trying to abbreviate text in my description column.
If you want to abbreviate it to the first 10 characters, for example, use
=LEFT(A1,10) -- David Biddulph "Antonio" wrote in message ... I have created a service and product list for a our company. I am trying to abbreviate the description of the service or product in order to fit it in our service or product ID Number column. Does anyone have a formula to preform such tasks. I have of 3000 different items that I need to abbreviate. |
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I am trying to abbreviate text in my description column.
I appreciate the help. Is there a way to the take the first couple letters in each work of the description? Example: Description Holly-Blue Maid BB 5' ID# holblmabb5 "David Biddulph" wrote: If you want to abbreviate it to the first 10 characters, for example, use =LEFT(A1,10) -- David Biddulph "Antonio" wrote in message ... I have created a service and product list for a our company. I am trying to abbreviate the description of the service or product in order to fit it in our service or product ID Number column. Does anyone have a formula to preform such tasks. I have of 3000 different items that I need to abbreviate. |
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I am trying to abbreviate text in my description column.
"Antonio" wrote:
.. Is there a way to the take the first couple letters in each work of the description? Example: Description Holly-Blue Maid BB 5' ID# holblmabb5 If you can live with just abbreviating the first letters, eg in A1: Description Holly-Blue Maid BB 5', result in B1: DHMB5 then one way is to use this fine UDF (FrstLtrs) by Ron Rosenfeld Here's the extract from Ron's posting to get you going .. " .. Hi, I want to extract the 1st letter of each word in a string. So for eg, in the string "my name is fred" I want to extract "mnif" .... It's easy with a User Defined Function. <alt<F11 opens the VB Editor. Ensure your project is highlighted in the project explorer window, then Insert/Module and paste the code below into the window. To use this UDF, enter a formula of the type =FrstLtrs(A1) where your string is in A1. '=========== Function FrstLtrs(str As String) As String Dim temp Dim i As Long temp = Split(Trim(str)) For i = 0 To UBound(temp) FrstLtrs = FrstLtrs & Left(temp(i), 1) Next i End Function '============ --ron ..." With Ron's UDF implemented in your file, Place in B1: =FrstLtrs(A1) Copy down -- Max Singapore http://savefile.com/projects/236895 xdemechanik --- |
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