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I know we can easily convert or change the attribute to of data in a cell quickly and there are shortcuts for it but is there a way to check if a data or list of data in a column is saved as an int/string/date/etc?
I would like to be able to just quickly check if the data I have in a column is saved in the correct format/attribute without having to convert/change it again just to make sure.
Excel will make assumptions of what the data is automatically. There is no datatype like in python or other coding languages. There are functions for testing cells values.
Functions to look at istext(), isblank(), isnumber(), islogical(), iserr(), ...
so if you want to know the data type in B5.
=IFS(ISTEXT(B5),"String",ISBLANK(B5),"Null",ISNUMBER(B5),"Number",ISLOGICAL(B5),"Boolean",ISERR(B5),"Error")
To convert a number to a string use the single quote mark prior to the number like '50. A date in excel is also a number. To convert a number stored as a string into a number multiply by 1.
Edit---
There is a fuction =Cell() see the details here
=CELL("format",B5)
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I want to return all rows in a particular dataset, with the value in a particular column. Without writing multiple vlookup statements and manually filtering the data. Can I do this using VBA, where it selects the data and creates new excel workbooks with this data?
I tried indexing, but it doesn't quite do what I want
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I'm trying to find an average of a large array of candidates compensation. Some of the cells contain text with multiple numbers showing a range such as, "$100k - $120k". Others are labeled as TC("120k TC") for total composition.
How would I be able to find the average of these numbers by using a something along the lines of substituting letters or parsing the string into a number WITHOUT changing the actual values listed? I do NOT want to mutate the original cell value of I only want to find an average of them all through a formula to bypass the additional "k", "TC" and "-" rendering them un-averageable as they are not parsed as numbers.
Would need to clean up the texts in stages.
find if a certain text is present: eg.
=IF(IFERROR(FIND("-",A1,1),"")<>"","- is present","")
=IF(IFERROR(FIND("TC",A1,1),"")<>"","TC is present","")
=IF(IFERROR(FIND("$",A1,1),"")<>"","$ is present","")
then split left and right price values if "-" is present: eg.
=LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1,1))
=RIGHT(A1,FIND("-",A1,1))
then if texts are present, remove those texts: eg.
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"$","")
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"k","")
then can use trim() to remove spaces on ends, value() to convert text to number etc...
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I am looking for a way to automate checking a demographic sheet filled in by a trainee against an answer key.
Our sheet currently has data validation built in to return TRUE or FALSE on whether the answer matches the answer key, but I'm looking for a way to then display the exact text string, so as to provide feedback on the exact error.
For example the way it currently functions is:
Sheet1!A1=Cat
Sheet2!A1=Dog
Sheet3!A1=FALSE
What I'm looking for, is a to utilize VBA to generate a comment balloon on Sheet3!A1 and see the exact error for easier feedback.
I'm new to working with advanced functions in Excel, so if anyone has a pointer in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it!!
I Suppose your want to check Sheet1 = Sheet2 in sheet3, and show the error if does not match.
To make it simple, just use formula in sheet 3,
=IF(Sheet1!A1=Sheet2!A1,"",Sheet1!A1 & "|" &Sheet2!A1)
if they match, nothing will be show, if they don't match, it will show Sheet1figure|Sheet2figure
this is easier than showing True/False
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I have data of order 4096*2 in excel. Second column contains all alphanumeric values of the kind 10ABC1101, 10CDE1101 and 20FGH2345. I am looking for a method (using Excel functions only and not VBA) to assign a unique integer value to each alphanumeric value in column 2.
Plan is to take data into Matlab for some analysis (and avoid String handling within Matrices) and bring it back to Excel and convert integers into original alphanumeric strings.
Ps: I am new to both Matlab and Excel.
Clearly separating numbers from strings will not help me because that does not assign unique value.
Many Thanks.
For non-consecutive Unique IDs you can use (in column C)
=MATCH(B:B,B:B,0)
To get the string back
=INDEX(B:B,C:C)
Note: these formulas use Implicit Intersection see here for some info
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I have a Excel spreadsheet in which one column is for accession numbers. While importing the accession numbers, the person imported the filenames instead of just numbers. So now the accession 'numbers' look like:
SRA002989.sra
SRA002986.sra
....
Is there a way to strip off the extensions and just keep the first part like SRA002989, SRA002986 etc.?
Try using the SUBSTITUTE() function. If your data is in Column A, the following will work and can be copied around as necessary.
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,".sra","")
The simplest approach would be to select the column, press CTRL + H for search and replace and to search for ".sra" and replace it with an empty value (just leave the second field empty).