Hello there,

I have a large list of police records and one of the fields contains their,
ID Code, Area and Rank seperated by spaces. I know there is a LEN and FIND
fuction but how do I conbine these??

Thankyou in advance

Judith

Hi

Why don't you insert the necessary columns (2 in this case), then do
Data|Text to Columns, select delimited, select Space (and unselect Tab) to
split it into columns

"JudithJubilee" wrote:

Hello there,

I have a large list of police records and one of the fields contains their,
ID Code, Area and Rank seperated by spaces. I know there is a LEN and FIND
fuction but how do I conbine these??

Thankyou in advance

Judith

find will enable you to get the location of the blank spaces in the text
string, which can then be used with =left, =right, =mid and =len. The
resulting formulae can be a bit cumbersome but if the ID and area code
are always the same number of characters they can be simplified.

These should work for variable lengths:

Cell A1 is: 1531 dorset constable
=LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)) returns 1531
=MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,FIND(" ",A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1)-FIND(" ",A1))
returns Dorset
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1)) returns Constable

Hope this helps


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