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I am trying to SEARCH or FIND a text string in an excel file without
any luck. The character is a hyphen (-) and the excel function (see about) says it can't see it. 28(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding (1968) My end result will be to extract the artist from the list of 500 songs. If anyone has a better approach, I would love to hear it. Thanks, HPB |
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With the data in A1 this will do it
=TRIM(LEFT(MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,255),FIND("(",MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,255))-1 )) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "harvdog" wrote in message ups.com... I am trying to SEARCH or FIND a text string in an excel file without any luck. The character is a hyphen (-) and the excel function (see about) says it can't see it. 28(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding (1968) My end result will be to extract the artist from the list of 500 songs. If anyone has a better approach, I would love to hear it. Thanks, HPB |
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Try DataText to ColumnsDelimited byOther. Enter a hyphen and Finish.
Gord Dibben Excel MVP On 16 Dec 2005 12:29:29 -0800, "harvdog" wrote: I am trying to SEARCH or FIND a text string in an excel file without any luck. The character is a hyphen (-) and the excel function (see about) says it can't see it. 28(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding (1968) My end result will be to extract the artist from the list of 500 songs. If anyone has a better approach, I would love to hear it. Thanks, HPB |
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If the data was imported from the web, there's a good chance that you might
have a "non-breaking" hyphen, same as the non-breaking spaces that one finds so often in web imported data. In the "Find What" box, Hold down <Alt, and type 0173 Using the numbers from the num keypad, *Not* the numbers under the function keys. Let us know if that works. -- HTH, RD ============================================== Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ============================================== "harvdog" wrote in message ups.com... I am trying to SEARCH or FIND a text string in an excel file without any luck. The character is a hyphen (-) and the excel function (see about) says it can't see it. 28(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding (1968) My end result will be to extract the artist from the list of 500 songs. If anyone has a better approach, I would love to hear it. Thanks, HPB |
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