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Formula Needed to Omit Characters
Is there a formula that would recognize and omit specific characters within a field? Example: Data Field has the following 9 characters "R0502AA01". Only the following 7 characters: "R0502--01" should be picked up or recognized. What formula will pick up the 1st-5th and the 8th-9th characters and bypass the 6th & 7th characters? Addie -- addie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ addie's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25526 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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Formula Needed to Omit Characters
No sure what is meant by 'recognized'
=LEFT(A1,5) =RIGHT(A1,2) =MID(A1,1,5) =SUBSTITUTE(A1,"AA","--") Any help? -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "addie" wrote in message ... Is there a formula that would recognize and omit specific characters within a field? Example: Data Field has the following 9 characters "R0502AA01". Only the following 7 characters: "R0502--01" should be picked up or recognized. What formula will pick up the 1st-5th and the 8th-9th characters and bypass the 6th & 7th characters? Addie -- addie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ addie's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25526 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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Formula Needed to Omit Characters
And you could experiment with Data | Text to Columns
best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme remove caps from email "addie" wrote in message ... Is there a formula that would recognize and omit specific characters within a field? Example: Data Field has the following 9 characters "R0502AA01". Only the following 7 characters: "R0502--01" should be picked up or recognized. What formula will pick up the 1st-5th and the 8th-9th characters and bypass the 6th & 7th characters? Addie -- addie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ addie's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25526 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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Formula Needed to Omit Characters
Addie, As long as your data is always in the same format (9 characters with the 6th & 7th being the data to omit), =SUBSTITUTE(A1,MID(A1,6,2),"") HTH Steve -- SteveG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SteveG's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=7571 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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Formula Needed to Omit Characters
Another option, if your numbers are inconsitently formatted where some have 1 letter in the 6th position, 2 letters in 6th & 7th or no letters then try, =CHOOSE(LEN(A1)-6,A1,SUBSTITUTE(A1,MID(A1,6,1),""),SUBSTITUTE(A1,M ID(A1,6,2),"")) This only works if the smallest number of characters you'll have is 7. HTH Steve -- SteveG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SteveG's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=7571 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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Steve, Thanks. You were a great help! Addie -- addie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ addie's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=25526 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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Glad it was what you needed. Steve -- SteveG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SteveG's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=7571 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=513674 |
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