Is it Possible
Is is possible to determine the number of blank characters entered in a
cell? What I mean by Blank, is when the user uses the spacebar to clear the contents of the cell I have used =LEN but that returns a value for all characters blank and otherwise. Thanks |
Is it Possible
=LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))
-- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "John" wrote in message ... Is is possible to determine the number of blank characters entered in a cell? What I mean by Blank, is when the user uses the spacebar to clear the contents of the cell I have used =LEN but that returns a value for all characters blank and otherwise. Thanks |
Is it Possible
Thanks Bob, very very clever
"Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")) -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "John" wrote in message ... Is is possible to determine the number of blank characters entered in a cell? What I mean by Blank, is when the user uses the spacebar to clear the contents of the cell I have used =LEN but that returns a value for all characters blank and otherwise. Thanks |
Is it Possible
One twist on this Bob, is that, is it possible to just count the Blanks to
the left of the first word. In my cell two words entered are valid but that means a blank between the first and second, so I would have to allow that. My idea is that when I get a value 0 then I delete the contents of A1, but if two words are typed in that would return 1 and in that case I would incorrectly delete. Thus blanks before the first word are the entries that are invalid "John" wrote in message ... Thanks Bob, very very clever "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")) -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "John" wrote in message ... Is is possible to determine the number of blank characters entered in a cell? What I mean by Blank, is when the user uses the spacebar to clear the contents of the cell I have used =LEN but that returns a value for all characters blank and otherwise. Thanks |
Is it Possible
"John" wrote...
One twist on this Bob, is that, is it possible to just count the Blanks to the left of the first word. In my cell two words entered are valid but that means a blank between the first and second, so I would have to allow that. My idea is that when I get a value 0 then I delete the contents of A1, but if two words are typed in that would return 1 and in that case I would incorrectly delete. Thus blanks before the first word are the entries that are invalid .... If you want to eliminate leading spaces and would also accept eliminating any trailing spaces and compressing any sequences of multiple spaces between words into single spaces, use the TRIM function. If you really want just the number of leading spaces, try =FIND(LEFT(TRIM(A1),1),A1)-1 |
Is it Possible
Thanks Harlan, I can work with that
"Harlan Grove" wrote in message ... "John" wrote... One twist on this Bob, is that, is it possible to just count the Blanks to the left of the first word. In my cell two words entered are valid but that means a blank between the first and second, so I would have to allow that. My idea is that when I get a value 0 then I delete the contents of A1, but if two words are typed in that would return 1 and in that case I would incorrectly delete. Thus blanks before the first word are the entries that are invalid ... If you want to eliminate leading spaces and would also accept eliminating any trailing spaces and compressing any sequences of multiple spaces between words into single spaces, use the TRIM function. If you really want just the number of leading spaces, try =FIND(LEFT(TRIM(A1),1),A1)-1 |
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