I am trying to lookup one of 3 strings (Blue, Red, Green) in column A. In column A I have:
row1: "Robert has Blue shorts"
row2: "Maria has a Red dress"
row3: "John has a Green car"
Whenever I find one of those 3 words in column A, I want to populate column B with the found instance (Green, Red, Blue).
There will always be one of these 3 words in column A, never more than one and the position of the words can be anywhere in the string.
I know how to put this in Python or SQL but I am struggling with Excel.
Can anyone share a solution if they used this in past?
You can use this array formula:
=INDEX({"Red","Blue","Green"},MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH({" Red "," Blue "," Green "}," " & A1 & " ")),0))
Being an array formula it must be confirmed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter when exiting edit mode. If done correctly then Excel will put {} around the formula.
As a note:
You can also replace the {"Red","Blue","Green"} with a range reference. So if the three words were in D1:D3 the formula would be:
=INDEX($D$1:$D$3,MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(" " & $D$1:$D$3 & " "," " & A1 & " ")),0))
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Hello good afternoon community. I have an Excel question
I have this table
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I can't find a way to determine which is the combination that is repeated the most but in both directions.
I mean, with the function count.si.set I can count how many Italy vs Portugal there were (12) but it doesn't give me how many Italy vs Portugal + Portugal vs Italy there were (14)
What is the step that I am missing?
You can use the greater than operator to check which word comes first alphabetically. Eg, IF(A1>A2,1,0) will return a 1 if the word in Cell A2 is alphabetically Earlier than the word in Cell A1.
Use this in the "Enfrentamientos" column with the following formula:
IF(A1 < B1, A1 & " " & " " B1, B1 & " " & A1)
This cells output will be the words in A1 and B1 concatenated in alphabetical order, so your Argentina & Germany pairs will come out the same as your Germany & Argentina Pairs.
Copy that formula down to the lower rows so it applies to each pair
Hope this helped!
does anyone know how to write TWO excel formulas that would change (A) and (B) respectively into (C)? I have hundreds of rolls of author names like (A) and (B). There are different numbers of author names in each string.
(A) Smith, John; Green, Yennis; Black, Eva; Brown, Robyn
(B) J. Smith; Y. Green. Black; R. Brown
(C) Smith J, Green Y, Black E & Brown R
(A) Smith, John; Green, Yennis
(B) J. Smith; Y. Green
(C) Smith J & Green Y
(A) Smith, John
(B) J. Smith
(C) Smith J
One way to approach this using formulas would be to split the data using the "Text to columns" on ";" delimiter. This will give 1 name per cell.
To convert "Smith, John" in cell A1 to "Smith J" you could use the formula
LEFT(REPLACE(A1,FIND(",",A1),1,""), FIND(" ",A1,1) )
To convert "J. Smith" in cell A1 to "Smith J" you could use the formula
MID(A1,FIND(".",A1) + 1, LEN(A1)-FIND(".", A1)) & " " & LEFT(A1,1)
Depending on how much the length varies, you could filter the data to remove empty cells and create formulas based on length.
B2 & ", " & D2 & " & " & E2 for 3 names, assuming you inserted a column to apply formulas to the right of each name. Or replace the cell reference with formulas if you don't want to insert columns.
I have excel sheet with data, ex: is bellow
A B
Text 1 Text 3 Text 1 Text 5
Text 2 Text 6 Text 9 Text 7
Text 3 Text 2 Text 4 Text 8
Text 4
Text 5
Text 6
Text 7
Text 8
Text 9
I want to joint column A value in column B randomly but values must unique (no repeat same value ). As you can see in my above ex: column A values random joint in column B . i search on internet unable to find any formula or answer. im new so dont now which formula work for this.
In C1 enter:
=RANDBETWEEN(1,9)
In C2 enter:
=LARGE(IF(ISNA(MATCH({1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9},$C$1:C1,0)),{1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9}),RANDBETWEEN(1,9-ROWS(C$2:C2)))
and copy downwards.
Column C represents a randomization of the digits 1 through 9 (with no repeats).
Then in B1 through B3 enter the formulas:
=INDEX(A:A,C1) & " " & INDEX(A:A,C2) & " " & INDEX(A:A,C3)
=INDEX(A:A,C4) & " " & INDEX(A:A,C5) & " " & INDEX(A:A,C6)
=INDEX(A:A,C7) & " " & INDEX(A:A,C8) & " " & INDEX(A:A,C9)
Suppose Sheet1 has the following table ( data range Cell A1 to B4)
Fruits | Colors
======= | =======
Apple | Red
Mango | Green
Banana | Yellow
Suppose in sheet2, Cell A1 has following values ( Apple Mango Banana) separated based on space.
How to use VLookup in Cell B2 based on A1 value which can give you the results in the same order ( Red Green Yellow)
This formula in Sheet2!B2 does it:
=INDEX(sheet1!B:B,MATCH(TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1, " ", REPT(" ", 100)),25)),sheet1!A:A,0)) & " " &
INDEX(sheet1!B:B,MATCH(TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",100)),100,25)),sheet1!A:A,0)) & " " &
INDEX(sheet1!B:B,MATCH(TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1, " ", REPT(" ", 100)),25)),sheet1!A:A,0))
This formula works fine when you have 3 values to match (in case there are 2 only, the second one will be repeated). It can be further complicated to treat any number of values.
Of course it can be simpler in VBA using the Split function, and it would take into account any number of keys, yielding the joined values. You can use this in a macro:
Sheet2.Range("B1").value = Join(Application.index(Sheet1.Columns("B"), _
Application.match(Split(Sheet2.Range("A1")), Sheet1.Columns("A"), 0)), " ")
Of course you can adjust it to any cell in column B, using Range("B" & i) and Range("A" & i)...
I am trying to find the duplicates between Table 1 and Table 2. The entires in column 'A' and 'B'together has to match the entries in column 'C' and 'D'
Looking for a formula that will highlight the duplicates in the given scenario.
![Table 1 has 2 columns, A and B. Table 2 has two columns, B and C. The formula should highlight the text in A and B together to text in B and C together][using excel]
Maybe create "key" columns to make things easier: Column X = A & B, Column Y = C & D
Then you can either use vlookup(A&B,Y...) or vlookup(C&D,X...)
Or Match(A&B, Y...( etc will give you the row number which could be useful, plus is a lot quicker than vlookup if you have heaps of rows (plus you don't need to lookup anything so why not? Or even if you did Index(Match..)) is still quicker...
Or you could even use Countif(A&B, Y) and vice versa...
Thats a hell of a lot of pseudo formulas lol so maybe something like:
Sheet2.D1 Formula: "=CountIf(Sheet1!$C$1:$C$1000, A1 & B1)" and do the same on the other:
Sheet1.D1 Formula: "=CountIf(Sheet2!$C$1:$C$1000, A1 & B1)"
Sheet1!C1 Formula = "=A1 & B1"
Sheet2!C1 Formula = "=A1 & B1"
Or if you only have one duplicate and want to know the row number:
Sheet1.D1 Formula: "=If(isna(match(A1 & B1,Sheet2!$C$1:$C$1000,0)),"","Duplicate on row: " & match(A1 & B1,Sheet2!$C$1:$C$1000,0))"