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Can I recognize the specific letters in a cell using formulas?
How can I recognize the first 2 letters in a cell using formulas? I want to
be able to recognize cells which contain certain initials from employees. Example would be if C1=SS Glass, C2=AF Metal and C3=SS Paper, I need to know that SS had 2 entries. I am using Office 2003 w/ SP3. Thanks, Steve |
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Can I recognize the specific letters in a cell using formulas?
You can use this:
=LEFT(C1,2) to extract the first 2 characters of cell C1, and then copy it down. In another cell you could have: =COUNTIF(C:C,"SS") to count the number of SS values. Hope this helps. Pete On Mar 26, 11:01*am, Stevo wrote: How can I recognize the first 2 letters in a cell using formulas? I want to be able to recognize cells which contain certain initials from employees. Example would be if C1=SS Glass, C2=AF Metal and C3=SS Paper, I need to know that SS had 2 entries. I am using Office 2003 w/ SP3. Thanks, Steve |
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Can I recognize the specific letters in a cell using formulas?
Hi,
Try this =SUM(IF(LEFT(C1:C20,2)="ss",1,0)) It's an array so commit with Ctrl+Shift+Enter Mike "Stevo" wrote: How can I recognize the first 2 letters in a cell using formulas? I want to be able to recognize cells which contain certain initials from employees. Example would be if C1=SS Glass, C2=AF Metal and C3=SS Paper, I need to know that SS had 2 entries. I am using Office 2003 w/ SP3. Thanks, Steve |
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Can I recognize the specific letters in a cell using formulas?
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:01:01 -0700, Stevo
wrote: How can I recognize the first 2 letters in a cell using formulas? I want to be able to recognize cells which contain certain initials from employees. Example would be if C1=SS Glass, C2=AF Metal and C3=SS Paper, I need to know that SS had 2 entries. I am using Office 2003 w/ SP3. Thanks, Steve =COUNTIF(C1:C3,"SS *") or, with some initials in D1 =COUNTIF(C1:C3,D1 & " *") --ron |
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