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Looking for alpha characters in a field
Good Morning,
I have a listing in Excel where I have a field that should only contain dates using number characters. The issue is that if part of the date is missing or unknown, they will be keyed using either "M" or "U" for the missing or unknown values. What I am looking for is a solution for identifying records that contain alpha characters. Thank you for your help! Fred |
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Looking for alpha characters in a field
Hi,
I'm not sure I understand the format of this field but the simplest test would be =ISTEXT(A1) This would return true if A1 contained any Alpha characters Mike "fgwiii" wrote: Good Morning, I have a listing in Excel where I have a field that should only contain dates using number characters. The issue is that if part of the date is missing or unknown, they will be keyed using either "M" or "U" for the missing or unknown values. What I am looking for is a solution for identifying records that contain alpha characters. Thank you for your help! Fred |
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