I would like to search for a string with multiple matches in my Excel document, basically its a summary of inventory transactions, so in my case I'm looking for string "Summa" (EN: sum) in cells E2:E3000, there are one sum for each article, so it will be about 500 matches. For every match I would like to paste a formula and a conditional format into the cell next to the sum. Is there someone who can help me with this? Thanks in advance.
Use the Search & Replace feature from excel (open it via ctrl+f). Here you have to press on "options"; with this you can search for strings inside formulas.
For example search for =sum and replace with =sum'#yourString'.
You can also add conditional format to all replaced values. For this and the other above mentioned steps see the yellow highlights on the picture below.
Find & Replace Example
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I am trying to use SUMIF to calculate based on TEXT (within a string of text) found in Column A. This part is working no problem. I am using =SUMIF(A2:A2000,"*RVSR*",I2:I2000)
I run into an issue because the next TEXT I need to search for is "VSR". So, the SUM comes back incorrect because it sums all VSR and RVSR cells.
Using wildcards is necessary because the search word/term is within a bunch of other text like "US Team VSR 1".
How do I force the equation to omit when ever 'RVSR' comes up?
Thanks
I want to convert the numbers from text format to numbers so tha i can make the average or sum of the whole columns.
I tried all the possible ways asfar as i read in many blogs, but nothing works.
There is no Green mark on the cell nor a quote '
Tried copying an empty cell and select required cells and paste special methods also.
It looks like you are using a French version of Excel. In this case a number should be 6,04 and not 6.04
Do a find and replace of . for , and you should be able to change the format to a number if it is not done automatically.
You can either:
change the values to numbers
use a formula that can handle text-type numeric values
Say we have data in column A that is Text. This formula:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A:A))
can give you the sum without having to convert first:
I have a short question about Excel. I have to find words in a Excel-sheet with many rows. So I need to search for multiple words at a time. With the normal filter and the search function it is not possible to search for more then one word.
The words I have to search for are like this: "AA2454, AA43242, AA9595"
Please use the below formula in conditional formatting to highlight all rows which contains the required strings that you have mentioned,
=OR((COUNTIF(1:1,"AA2454")>0),(COUNTIF(1:1,"AA43242")>0),(COUNTIF(1:1,"AA9595")>0))
Let me know if its not working
This question will be almost exactly like the question below, but I need a slight change to it for my application and I can't quite figure it out:
excel: how can I identify rows containing text keywords taken from a list of keywords
If a row of several text filled cells contains any keyword from a list of keywords, I would like to add that keyword to the end of the row. Each row will be the same number of cells, but some can be blank and they are not necessarily all the same data type, some could be numbers or dates etc. Even more, I would like to add every keyword that appears in the row of text to the end of the row in separate cells.
Relating to the example post that almost answers my question, I am using the more complicated formula for multiple matches, but in that example they only have one column of data they are looking for keywords in. I have several that would be formatted similar to their column A. I tried changing some of the ranges around with no luck specifically where the formula posted has: IF(COUNTIF($A1,"*"&$B$1:$B$10&"*") I changed $A1, to $A1:$D1 with no luck.
The problem showed up because I have several large spreadsheets of text based data about failure modes of different tools and I would like to categorize them in a little more of a controlled way than free form text in every cell and assigning controlled keywords that apply seems like a decent way to do this.
Example case
Expected result
The keyword list shown in Example Case is not shown in the Expected result. The range of keywords is K2:K6
Another feature that would be useful is if I could assign additional words that when found would trigger one of the key words. For example if the key word is "Gear wear" then "Gear wear" would trigger a hit but "stripped gears" would also trigger a hit. I would imagine the keyword list would be set up as a 2D Range with the first column being the actual key word and the cells to the right of each row would be additional words that trigger the key word. I suspect I am getting to the point where I would need to create a VBA macro to do this. If there is a way to accomplish this without writing code it would make it more repeatable on other user's computers.
Enter following formula in Cell F1 then drag/copy across and down as required.
=IFERROR(INDEX($K$2:$K$6,SMALL(IF(COUNTIF($A1:$D1,"*"&$K$2:$K$6&"*"),ROW($K$2:$K$6)-ROW($A$1)),COLUMNS($A1:A1))),"")
This is an array formula so commit it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter
See the image for reference
This formula is derived from the link mentioned in your question.
hope you can help with an Excel or Google Spreadsheet question.
In one column I have different words, which I would like to search for in a certain area in the spreadshet. Fx. is B3 present from B50:B678 is B4 present from B50:B678 and so on. The text is not an exact match. That means that sometimes the searchwords is placed in the whole sentes. See this data for an excample: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MX8WsnwcxEety-sv2ttEcUqgAgEUbpUd_xD18cG20lk/edit#gid=574850130
Hope you can help. With no succes I have tried these formulas:
=ifError(filter($B$775:$B$7887,ifError(search(B4,$B$775:$B$7887),false)))
=IFERROR(IF(UNIQUE(FILTER(B776:B7888,B776:B7888=B3))="text","Found","Not Found"),"Not Found")
=search(B3,J3:J98)
But the formulas don´t work if there is no excact match...Hope you can help
Best regards
Kåre Kildall Rysgaard
Datajournalist, Analystik.dk
In Google Spreadsheet count the number of occurrences of your search string within the test range by embedding the test string within wildcard characters:
=if(countif(A$15:A$2100,ʺ*ʺ&A4&ʺ*ʺ)>0,ʺFoundʺ,ʺNot Foundʺ)
The answer in Excel is similar but note that double quotes in Excel use a different character to that in Google Spreadsheet:
=IF(COUNTIF(A$15:A$2100,"*"&A4&"*")>0,"Found","Not Found")
It appears that Google Spreadsheet uses ANSI 63 for double quotes while Excel uses ANSI 34.