I have a date "2017-09-01 00:02:01". I need to use the FIND function to identify the first space in this date. The following function gave me an error on MS-excel but worked perfectly fine on google sheets.
=FIND(" ",C2)
Why?
I tried to split the date and time in the above mentioned value. In order to do that, I wanted to use the RIGHT and LEFT functions. To use these functions, I needed to use the space as a delimiter and so I tried identifying the position at which the space is using FIND function.
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I'm building a monitoring system that takes a log (where people register their work in a set format) and returns a counter, which I can use for analysis. The monitor and log are two separate workbooks. The log has entries like this: INITALS;DATE;HOUR:RESULT|
Each cell can contain multiple entries.
My first attempt was to do a simple countif and look for a string (note that I use ; instead of , in formulas since I work on a Dutch excel):
=COUNTIF('LOCATION'!Table[LOG];"*NB;??/??/????;??:??:#A*|*")
This worked fine, but the formula only counted the number of cells where this string was present, not the actual number of occurences. I then tried this solution.
=SUM(LEN('LOCATION'!Tabel13[LOG])-LEN(SUBSTITUTE('LOCATION'!Tabel13[LOG];"NB";"")))
This indeed counted the number of times "NB" was present in the LOG. However, when I tried to use the original search string, this solution stopped working:
=SUM(LEN('LOCATION'!Tabel13[LOG])-LEN(SUBSTITUTE('LOCATION'!Tabel13[LOG];"*NB;??/??/????;??:??:#A*|*";"")))
It seems to me that SUM does not recognize symbols like ? or * which are necessary to define the correct search string. Where did I go wrong? Or can this be solved in another way? I can still look into VBA, but the workbooks are slow as hell already.
"?" and "*" are wildcards. Some functions support these (like COUNTIFS()) where others don't. Like you found out, SUBSTITUTE() does not.
Here is one way to count, assuming ms365:
Formula in C1:
=REDUCE(0,A1:A2,LAMBDA(a,b,a+LET(X,SEQUENCE(LEN(b)),SUM(--(IFERROR(SEARCH("NB;??/??/????;??:??:#A*|*",b,X),0)=X)))))
Note: I removed the asterisk in front of "NB" just to make searching for a position valid in comparison to what i called variable "X".
I am in charge of adding new employees to our speech recognition and gamification systems.
When I get a batch of tickets, I compile a bunch of data into a spreadsheet that I then reference when adding those users to the systems (Which unfortunately do not have a JSON/CSV upload option or anything similar)
To save some time with compiling, I've started exporting a bunch of data from our database and our HR management system into that sheet, and then using the new employee's email to XLOOKUP all the other data fields.
For one of our systems, it has a strict character limit, and the format for the username is "cde\firstname.lastname". This is no problem to CONCATENATE normally, but it has a strict character limit, so if the user has a hyphenated last name, I will basically dump everything after the hyphen.
At first I tried a simple formula using a combination of LEFT and FIND -1 to find the hyphen, and then take everything to the left of it. This obviously doesn't end up working because I get a #VALUE! for anyone without a hyphen in their last name.
I tried using IFERROR to say "OK try to return the last name without a hyphen, otherwise just return the last name", but for some reason when I put the reference in the Return_If_Error portion, it doesn't recognize it as a reference.
So I am looking for a formula that will work with a LOOKUP'd value and only give me what's before a hyphen, but otherwise will still just give me the last name.
The baseline formula I have, that just looks up and concatenates the first and last into the "cde\firstname.lastname" is:
=CONCATENATE("cde\",LOWER(XLOOKUP(G578,Sheet4!M:M,Sheet4!B:B)),".",LOWER(XLOOKUP(G578,Sheet4!M:M,Sheet4!C:C)))
To expand on the comments, you've got the right idea, just use an IF statement for testing if the string contains "-", then use the normal string functions like FIND, LEFT, etc. to pick out the things you want.
For example:
="cde/"&
LEFT(H1,FIND(".",H1)-1)&
IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("-",H1)),MID(H1,FIND(".",H1),FIND("-",H1)-FIND(".",H1)),
MID(H1,FIND(".",H1),FIND("#",H1)-FIND(".",H1)))
I'm trying to do a search for multiple strings in a cell with an OR-condition in Excel 2016.
E.g. I have a string abcd1234 and I want to find ab OR 12.
I'm using the german version where the function SEARCH is called SUCHEN and it should behave the same way.
I found this answer which suggests this solution:
SEARCH({"Gingrich","Obama","Romney"},C1).
I also found this website which suggests the same syntax:
SEARCH({"red","blue","green"},B5)
Same with this website:
SEARCH({"mt","msa","county","unemployment","|nsa|"},[#Tags])
So they basically say make a list of search terms separated by commas enclosed by curly braces and you're good.
But putting these into Excel 2016 just results in the usual meaningless Excel error message which says there was an error with the formula and it's always highlighting the whole part in curly braces.
Taking the first example the only way I could get Excel to not throw its error message was to change the syntax like this:
=SEARCH({"Gingrich";"Obama";"Romney"};C1)
But separating the search terms with semicolons doesn't apply the OR-condition correctly, so this is not the solution.
I'm aware from this answer that I could make separate searches and string them together with a condition, but I would like to avoid that, and I also want to know why the syntax that is supposed to work as confirmed by multiple sources is not working for me.
EDIT:
Okay, I'm starting to understand this, thanks to Solar Mike:
The code =IF(COUNT(SEARCH({"Romney","Obama","Gingrich"},A1)),1,"") works indeed perfectly fine.
Also =COUNT(SEARCH({"Romney","Obama","Gingrich"},A1)) works.
But =SEARCH({"Romney","Obama","Gingrich"},A1) does not.
Also =ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"Gingrich","Obama","Romney"},A1)) does not work.
I'd love to know the reason why.
Ok, so this works:
OR(IFERROR(FIND("ab",A1,1),0),IFERROR(FIND("12",A1,1),0))
tested here :
I followed one of the links and the version like this:
=IF(COUNT(SEARCH({"Romney","Obama","Gingrich"},C1)),1,"")
worked as expected for me, but if the search is isolated it then fails and I have not found an explanation ...
Like other array-style formulas, the part that delivers the array has to be enclosed in some sort of aggregate function to make it scan through the array - otherwise it only looks at the first element of the array. So anything like COUNT, SUM, SUMPRODUCT will do the trick.
My preferred one is
=OR(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"a","b","c"},A1)))
because you can easily change it to this if you want AND logic:
=AND(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"a","b","c"},A1)))
I am trying to get a value or all values similar to below in excel:
#123 maybe some text and date 12/17/209
#048309 maybe some text and date 12/17/209
#9385 maybe some text and date 12/17/209
I want to get the value proceeding the # however, I am not sure if there is an easier function? I want it to find the # then get however many numbers proceeds it. I am familiar with regex not with excel functions unfortunately.
Sorry for vagueness:
I was trying to use an IF() supplying a # as the find operation for the character I just couldnt manage to get the number as I was trying to use RIGHT() to filter after the #. What I found with the RIGHT() function is that it expects a parameter for count and so would have to be dynamic so I dropped that idea.
This formula will get the numbers directly after #:
=--MID(A1,FIND("#",A1)+1,FIND(" ",A1,FIND("#",A1))-FIND("#",A1))
I recently took over an Excel file. And now I try to modify the VBA codes at the back end. I cannot find Ceiling_Math function in Excel, can anybody tell me where to find the details of this function?
I cannot find the details anywhere.
Ceiling_Math is a rounding function that, when used with multiple arguments, lets you round up to multiples.
However in the example you gave, it appears to be only using only one argument, so I assume there is a default behaviour that means: round up to the nearest integer.
If that is the use case, consider switching it for the Excel ROUNDUP function.