Does anyone knows any formula to extract the number with separation (dot, comma) from cell A1 to cell B1?
Example, I want to extract 2,590.00 from cell A1 which has the following value:
[sum: 2,590.00]
I got the formula below that works nice, however is just getting all numbers e.g. 259000
{=TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,IFERROR((MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1)*1),""))}
I appreciate every support
Under O365 you can try the following in cell B1 which is a very concise approach:
=TEXTAFTER(TEXTBEFORE(A1,"]"), "sum: ")
Here is the output:
For excel-2019, similar idea but using SUBSTITUTE instead to remove the prefix ([sum: ) and the suffix (]):
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"[sum: ",""),"]","")
You can use a formula like as below:
• Formula used in cell B1
=MAX(IFERROR(--MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"]",""),ROW($ZZ1:INDEX($ZZ:$ZZ,LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)),0))
• With OFFICE 365, you can try this in cell C1
=--INDEX(TEXTSPLIT(A1,{":","[","]"},,1),,2)
• Formula used in cell D1
=SUBSTITUTE(TEXTAFTER(A1," "),"]","")*1
Is there any way to use cells of excel in my mathematical equations? I'd like a way to just change the numbers and the equations automaticlly update with them. I tried concatenating strings but it's not that pretty. Or maybe is there any other way to easily show equations step by step in excel?
You say that concatenation of strings is not that pretty, so I assume you have done something like:
in cell A1 : "Hello"
in cell A2 : "World"
in cell A3 : =A1&A2
And in cell A3, you see "HelloWorld", without any space (which is indeed not pretty).
You can solve this in two ways in A3:
=A1&" "&A2
=TEXTJOIN(A1:A2, " ")
(I'm not entirely sure about the syntax of the second one.)
In the first formula, you concatenate both cells A1 and A2 and you specifically mention to put a space between those two.
In the second you do the same, but you mention that the space must be used everywhere.
The difference can be seen in following example:
In cell A1: "Hello"
In cell A2: "Lovely"
In cell A3: "World"
In cell A4, you can put: =A1&" "&A2&" "&A" for getting "Hello Lovely World": you need to mention the space character twice.
In cell A4, you can put: =TEXTJOIN(A1:A3, " ") for getting the same result. As you see you only need to mention the space character once.
Is this what you are looking for?
I have a scenario where I want my Microsoft excel field to have the same length of the longest word in the column.
Basically lets say if I have:
ACBBASDBBADSAD
BADFDFDDF
So here I want to have the second word with less characters to have white spaces at its end to match the length of the first word.
=&" " this definitely helps but I am unable to achieve the above scenario
Consider this screenshot:
In column B the length of each cell of column A is established with the formula =len(A1) copied down.
Cell D2 has the range name MaximumLength and the formula =max(B:B).
With that in place, you can create the padded values with this formula in cell G1, copied down:
=A1&REPT("*",MaximumLength-LEN(A1))
If you don't want to use the helper column and helper cell, you can use this array formula instead:
=A2&REPT("*",MAX(LEN(A1:A15))-LEN(A2))
This formula must be confirmed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter. It is advisable to use defined ranges, not whole columns in array formulas, hence the range in LEN(A1:A15). Adjust as desired.
I've used the "*" character so it is visible. Replace it with a space " " in your scenario.
You can add this formula to count maximum characters and use on some cell, because you will need to press a command for it to work, so every cell can't contain this formula, let's say it is on Z1:
=MAX(LEN($A:$A))
Certify to press ctrl+shift+enter on the formula
Then you use this formula on your cells:=REPT(" ";Z1-LEN(A2))&A2
Edit: Sorry, anwsered late, teylyn is more complete.
I'm trying to extract a word from a sentence if it starts with one of the following letters.Dell** or Samsung** or Apple**. The position of the words may vary in the cell.
A1: Dell2622 Retail34792 Lenovo StoreQuantity4
A2: Retail9858 Qty8 Samsung783546 Android
A3: Retail21512 Apple3411 StoreQty15 Macintosh
I am trying to use the following formula to extract the Dell** or Samsung** or Apple** if it's present int the cell.
=MID(A1, SEARCH({"Dell","Samsung","Apple"},A1), SEARCH(" ",A1, SEARCH({"Dell","Samsung","Apple"},A1))- SEARCH({"Dell","Samsung","Apple"},A1))
It works for the cell A1, but everything else returns #VALUE!. I guess it doesn't recognize that i want it to check for either or and extract either or. The result I'm trying to achieve is:
A1: Dell2622
A2: Samsung783546
A3: Apple3411
Later on i may need to add more things to search for, so I'm trying to keep it easily modifiable. I guess since it finds the first instance, then it's just a matter of tweaking something to ensure that if it didn't find the first value it looks for second, etc.
Assuming you have a data setup similar to the picture below, with your strings in column A, the formula in column B, and the words to look for in column D:
The formula in cell B2 and copied down is:
=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A2,MIN(INDEX(SEARCH($D$2:$D$4,A2&$D$2:$D$4),)),255)," ",REPT(" ",255)),255))
And per your request to not use a range reference and instead have the list of words directly in the formula:
=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A3,MIN(INDEX(SEARCH({"Dell","Samsung","Apple"},A3&{"Dell","Samsung","Apple"}),)),255)," ",REPT(" ",255)),255))
I have a column filled with data that has a path. I'd like to get the last element in the path, the second last element, and the first element. For example, for the following data:
\Product\Release\Iteration
\Product\Folder1\Folder2\Anotherfolder\Release2\Iteration5
\Product
\Product\Somefolder\Release3\Iteration5
I'd like to get the following in cells
In cell B1: "Product", cell C1: "Release", cell D1: "Iteration"
In cell B2: "Product", cell C2: "Release2", cell D2: "Iteration5"
In cell B3: "Product", cell C3: blank, cell D3: blank
In cell B4: "Product", cell C4: "Release3", cell D4: "Iteration5"
Getting the first and the last component is easy. I'm mostly just struggling with getting the second to last component (column C in the example above).
In B1 and copied down:
=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",REPT(" ",99)),99,99))
In C1 and copied down:
=IF(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",""))=2,TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",REPT(" ",99)),99)),IF(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",""))>2,TRIM(LEFT(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",REPT(" ",99)),198),99)),""))
In D1 and copied down:
=IF(OR(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",""))={1,2}),"",TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",REPT(" ",99)),99)))
Assuming your data is in ColumnA use Text to Columns with \ as delimiter to split across columns B:G. Assuming a maximum of 8 elements, put =B1 in K1 and in L1:
=IF(AND(ISBLANK(D1),ISBLANK(C1)),"",IF(ISBLANK($D1),$C1,IF(ISBLANK(C1),"",INDIRECT("R"&ROW()&"C"&COLUMN()-COUNTBLANK($B1:$I1)-4,0))))
Copy L1 to M1 and K1:M1 down to suit.
Copy Paste Special Values over the top and delete columns A:I.
Made up two formulas to retrieve any part of the path you want:
Taking the first as starting from the left:
=IFERROR(MID(A3,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",CHAR(1),C$2))+1,IFERROR(FIND("\",A3,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",CHAR(1),C$2))+1)-FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",CHAR(1),C$2))-1,LEN(A3))),"")
Taking the first as starting from the right:
=IFERROR(MID(A3,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",CHAR(1),LEN(A3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",""))+1-D$2))+1,IFERROR(FIND("\",A3,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",CHAR(1),LEN(A3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",""))+1-D$2))+1)-FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",CHAR(1),LEN(A3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A3,"\",""))+1-D$2))-1,LEN(A3))),"")
And here's a google spreadsheet where you can see how it's working.
Note: I had to make a few changes to the formulae to make it google-spreadsheet-compatible, namely:
Change CHAR(1) to something else, I used "/" as substitute
Add an IF() to check for SUBSTITUTE(,,,0) (the 0 parameter) since this gives an error in MS Excel but not on google spreadsheet.
If you just need to parse the data to cells, you could import a text file into Excel with '\' delimitor. Otherwise, you need to loop through with CHARINDEX() and SUBSTRING to find the position of each backslash and parse out the data in between.
You could also use SSIS and set up a text file transformation with '\' delimitor to Excel for automation. With TSQL, you need to loop as I suggested
This has an excellent example that uses the split command. You just need to change the | character to \ and use the loop to put the individual values in the places you want.
Break string based on a character in VBA 2010
This should work for you (assuming you don't use * in your file names which I don't think is allowed in windows anyways):
=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","*",(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","")))-1),1))
That is for the second last element.
You can get any element you want by changing the bold number:
=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","",(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","")))-3),1))
EDIT/ADDITION
If you want to get rid of the values to the right of the nth element in the formulas above, you can do it like this:
=IFERROR(LEFT(RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","*",(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","")))-1),1)),FIND("\",RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND("*",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","*",(LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"\","")))-1),1)),1)-1),"error checking, lol")