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Hello.
I have a large spreadsheet that lists many text strings in a single column. The text strings include the name of a company, product, platform, and language. I would like to isolate the language from the text string and populate the cells in another column with only the name of that language. The text string does not follow a consistent format where there are the same number of words or where the language is always in the same position in the sequence. There are 24 different languages that are used in the text strings, and some of the languages are more than one word, such as "Chinese Traditional" or "Chinese Simplified." Using the formula =IF(SEARCH("German",D44),"German") works if the word German is part of the text string in cell D44. However, I need to be able to add all of the other languages into a single formula to verify line by line what language is in the text string. When I try to add other languages to the formula, such as =IF(SEARCH("German",D44),"German"),IF(SEARCH("Dani sh",D44),"Danish"), the result is #VALUE!, which is not what I want. Can this be accomplished through a formula, and if so, how? Would it work better to set this up as a macro? If so, any guidance on how to do that would be much appreciated. Thank you! |
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