Unsure if this is the right platform to ask this...
I want to remove the leading 3 zeros from a column in Excel.
The numbers in the column look like this:
000123456-001
000023568-001
000568975-001
000000235-001
I was able to format the column into text, but that's where I'm stuck. I don't see any way to format the cells to remove the first 3 zeros.
How do I remove the leading 3 zeros?
What about =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-3)
Would that work for you?
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I have a column in my excel that includes authors name and it looks as follows:
My goal is to remove the dates + the last comma from all of these rows to make it something like this:
Is there a way I can do it in excel?
Based on your example, in which there are multiple commas in one cell, I would go with determining the position of the last comma first (in order to know where to slice the content of said cell). Then it's a matter of IF formula based on condition in which the last 4 characters in the cell are digits:
=IF(ISNUMBER(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,4))),LEFT(A1,FIND("#",SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","#",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""))))-1),A1)
FYI: The "#" substitution is targeted at knowing exactly where the last comma occurs in the cell. Any other unique, not-appearing-in-the-string character would have done the same job.
I've tested the formula on below examples:
I am working on an excel sheet that tracks report numbers. The report numbers all follow the same sequence.
XX########X##, where X is a letter and # is a digit 0 thru 9. All report numbers are 2 letters followed by 8 digits, then 1 letter and then 2 more digits.
The numbers/letters are not random but identify what is contained in the report. So, it's custom to refer to them in a specific cadence which is:
XX ### ##### X##.
As you can see, this pattern is so much easier on the brain than the above.
Like how phone numbers are all said in a specific ###-#### pattern or SS is ### ## ####.
Anyway, I would like the column that these report numbers are in to "display" with spaces. I put display in quotations because I don't want to actually have a space character in the cell. This will affect other parts of the spreadsheet downstream.
Excel has built in cell formatting options (Format Cells > Custom). I am able to use to create a spacing pattern using zero (0).
E.g. if my file reports were all numbers "1234567891234" I can input a custom pattern as "00 000 00000 000" and it will "display" "12 345 67891 234". However, I cannot get this to work with text and numbers. I have tried "*", "#", "?" but no luck. I am unable to find a solution in VBA but I suspect that is the way to go.
Thanks!
The cells contain text. Text formatting cannot be changed with a number format. Text will always shows as entered in the cell. If you want to see spaces, there will need to be spaces in the cell.
You don't specify where the data comes from. If it is not entered manually, but loaded from another system, you could use a formula to add the spaces in the specific places and then hide the original column.
=LEFT(A1,2)&" "&MID(A1,3,3)&" "&MID(A1,6,5)&" "&RIGHT(A1,3)
or
=REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(A1,11,0," "),6,0," "),3,0," ")
I have a column in Excel with values that looks like this:
01.01
01.02
01.03
01.04
01.05
01.06
0101.2
0101.21.00
0101.21.00.00
0101.29.00
0101.29.00.10
I am trying to remove the "." in the 4 digit cells i.e. 01.01 01.02 etc. so that they will show 0101, 0102 instead. The current cells indicated "General" format. I changed it to "text". Then tried to do a replace "." to blank. However, it will change from 01.01 to 101. I have tried several methods including "custom" format to no avail.
I filtered the column so only those cells with length=5 show up. I then applied a "custom" format 0000 to the cells. It changed. However, I then tried to sort the column, it will not sort properly. The custom formatted 4-digit cells are conflicting with other cells.
I only need to remove the "." for those 4-digit cells and keeping the leading zero. Seems like an easy task but I am pulling my hair. Any advise is appreciated.
Different interpretation:
=IF(MID(A1,3,1)=".",REPLACE(A1,3,1,),A1)
May sort as you require.
Change ,s for ;s if necessary for your configuration.
When A1 is your target cell,
B1=SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")
In my photo Column A is formatted as Text and Column B is good ol' fashion General
I have a list of 64 product codes all similar to SDAC30610.
I have also had to append 2 digits on to the end of each cell, and have done that using =sourceA2&"PA", but cannot figure out how to change an existing digit in each cell.
How do I change the 3 to a 4 in all 64 cells?
Can't you try just find and replace all?
Find "SDAC3" and replace with "SDAC4"
Or use replace function, see https://www.exceltip.com/working-with-formulas/replace-a-particular-character-at-specific-position.html
Something like this should work:
=IF((MID(A2,5,1))=”3”,REPLACE(A2,5,1,4),A2)
Then you should be able copy that for all rows in that column.
I have a row of numbers that are zip codes but because they all start with a zero (NJ) the zero gets dropped. ie. 07749 only shows as 7749. What formula can I write in another cell that will add a zero to the beginning of each of these? Thanks, Jerry.'Jeff
You can use TEXT like this with 5 zeros:
=TEXT(A1,"00000")