Is there a way to add a blank column to a query in Query Studio? I tried to use a calculation on an existing column but the only options that I get are for First Characters, Last Characters, Concatenation, and Remove Trailing Spaces. None of these options allow you to enter a decode, case or IF statement.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
It's a bit of a hack as Query Studio is really all about making it easy to get data and doing anything with layout is really a job for Report Studio, but you can do the following:
a) create a calculated column on a text field. Select 'Concatenation' as the operation and put a space as the preceding text. Click ok
b1) right-click on the new column and select 'Format', then 'Text' and enter 1 for the number of characters
or
b2) create another calculated column from the first calculated column, set it to 'first characters' and enter 1 for the number of characters. The first calculated column can now be deleted.
Both of these approaches will give a column that only contains a single space - not actually blank but close enough for most purposes. The first approach is a little quicker but may result in the text still existing in some output versions (e.g. csv) - I'd need to do more testing to confirm.
The column title can be edited (to be set to blank) by double clicking it, of course.
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Can Not Get My VLookUp In Excel To Return The Requested Data
I am trying to pull data from another sheet based on data selected from a dropdown on the main sheet.
All the formatting is "General"
=VLOOKUP(F15737,'Location Master'!$A:$J,2,FALSE)
It just keeps returning me #N/A
Try using the Index Match method. It's an alternative to Vlookup which doesn't require data to be sorted and can therefore be of more use.
The typical structure of this method is (the text inside the asterisk will give the ranges specific to your sheet:
=INDEX (**Column from which you want to return a value**, (MATCH(**Lookup Value**, **Column against which you want to lookup**,0))
In this case, if I've understood your workbook structure, the formula should look like this:
=INDEX('Location Master'!$B:$B,(MATCH(F15737,'Location Master'!$A:$A,0)))
This is a common problem with VLOOKUP(). Most likely you have some whitespace (A tab character or some spaces) after one of the values. Click on F15737 and see if there are any spaces at the end of it. Likewise, manually find the value in 'Location Master'!$A and check it for spaces or tabs after the value.
If the whitespace is found in F15737 then you can change your vlookup to be:
=VLOOKUP(TRIM(F15737),'Location Master'!$A:$J,2,FALSE)
If the whitespace is in the range to which you are looking up, then you'll need to trim all of those values, which you can do pretty quickly in a new column with the TRIM() formula.
If this doesn't solve the problem then you might have a number stored as text. Generally excel will tell you if this is the case within the cell with a little green corner indicator. To get Excel to automagically change a column from a "Number stored as Text" to a proper number you can:
Highlight the column
Go to Data>>Text To Columns
Click "Fixed Width"
Click "Finished"
Excel will then format everything automatically (dates to dates, numbers to numbers, text to text, time to time, etc.)
I have a large column of texts (5 digit integers concatenated with two letters, like: 12345AB ) and values (up to 8 digit positive integers, like: 12345678) . The list is around 12,200 total and when I do remove duplicates, it reduces to 7015 total. If I sort the result and then do another remove duplicates, I am left with 6324 entries. On the other hand if I sort first and then do remove duplicates, I am left with 6324 entries.
Is this a common issue that when number and text are mixed up that removing duplicates works only after sorting.
I can upload my file if this is not a common issue and is a problem with my file. I'm guessing if the row starts with numbers (text) then the excel search algorithm only goes down the column till such a point that it stops seeing numbers (text) and we miss out on the duplicates that show up later?
I shudder at the thought that I've been using remove duplicates incorrectly all this while.
Please help. Thanks.
EDIT To Include the actual file I am working with:
Link here
seems like you want to ensure is that they're all the same type, no? an easy way to coerce a cell to be text is:
=A1 & ""
and a number is:
=A1 * 1
I was able to accomplish this by using the Text to Columns option.
Select column (B)
Select Text to Columns on the Data Tab
Select delimited click next
Click next as there are no delimiters
Under column data format select Text
Then remove duplicates
I ran into this issue with VLookup before as well it ensures proper formatting of all data in the column.
I have individual cells in excel with the following content in each of them
http://www.teng.mossdemo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/images/products/m1423.jpg|http://www.teng.mossdemo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/images/products/m1423.jpg
http://www.teng.mossdemo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/images/products/rt2899.jpg|http://www.teng.mossdemo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/images/products/rt2899.jpg
This is one cell in a long row for a dump of data for products within an ecommerce site. A data migration has somehow added the same image more than once to the same product. Each separate image image is separated by the Pipe "|" symbol.
I want to search each cell in this column of the sheet and remove the duplicated image reference and the Pipe symbol.
So the examples above become
http://www.teng.mossdemo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/images/products/m1423.jpg
and
http://www.teng.mossdemo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/images/products/rt2899.jpg
The suggested answer of finding the pipe with SEARCH is a good general answer, however in this instance as the source string is always twice the length of the desired we can just chop it in half with the formula below and drag it down.
=LEFT(A1,(LEN(A1)-1)/2)
In addition to a formula, you can use Data>Text to Columns, which is a good thing to know about. Select the entire column and then you up the dialog. In step one choose "Delimited" and in step two choose the pipe symbol:
When you're finished, delete the first column.
I figured out that this works for some more complex scenarios. I think it should work for this one as well.
=IFERROR(LEFT(C2,(FIND(LEFT(C2,20),C2,2)-2)),C2)
I entered this into D2 and copied it all the way down the column. I then copied and pasted the values back into Column C.
The problem I had was that not all of the cells in my column had duplicate text. Of those that did, the duplications were not delineated by any unique character (There was a single space in front of each duplication.), and the duplicated text was often an incomplete duplication so the length was not consistently symmetrical.
The "20" is an arbitrary number of characters I picked for excel to use from the front of the text to identify where the text started to repeat. There are enough people here who know excel better than I who can explain what the rest of the formula does. I figured it out by poking around.
I really tried a LOT with in-built functions and also with google search but none of the ways doesn't worked out for expected result.
My exact problem is:
I've few numeric columns which i got from a website and copied directly into excel.
In those columns there is a SINGLE Leading space at the beginning of each number in the cell of the entire column. Example 523946.00. In this number there is a single space before the digit 5.
I tried a lot with TRIM and SUBSTITUTE in-built functions but nothing able to resolve my problem of removing spaces.
And also my expectation is when i select two or multiple cells in the same column(spaces removed) then automatically Excel should show or display the AVERAGE: <Average value> SUM: <total Sum> COUNT: <count value> at the below status bar or bottom ribbon.
Say, AVERAGE: 175.49 COUNT: 2 SUM: 350.98
This type of information is not showing at the bottom. Only i'm able to see COUNT: 2 alone....why?
I want in General Format only. No any special formats.
I'm using MS Excel 2013
Edit:
You can actually just use find and replace.
Copy one of the trouble cells.
Select all the cells containing non break space, and select find and replace.
Paste the copied cell into the find bar, delete everything but the last character (asuming that is the non breaking space).
Leave the replace bar empty and press replace all.
This removes all non breaking spaces. :)
**Old Solution:**You can add nothing with paste special to the whole column where the spaces occur.
First copy an completely empty cell. (! remember this step)
Then select all cells in the column and right click and select paste special.
Then select "add" almost at the bottom (see picture) and press ok.
This will make excel reevaluate the values as if you had modified in and entered the value manually. Excel then correctly converts them to numbers. :)
First make sure you have the column Formatted as you would like. Make sure it is a number with 2 decimal places (or how ever many you need), then also make sure that there is no Indents (Maybe you think the Indent is a space?) And that you have it Aligned to the Left, Or where you want the Data To be. This alone should take care of your issue.
If that doesn't work here a list of possible solutions.
=Value(Trim(A1)) ' Removes all white space before and after the text in A1
=Value(Clean(A1)) 'Removes all non printable Charactersin A1
=Value(SUBSTITUTE(I3," ","")) 'Substitutes(Replaces) all instances of " "(Space) with ""(nothing)
'****Note: With Substitute you can also specify how many
' Substitutes(Replaces) to make of the value
=Value(SUBSTITUTE(I3," ","",1)) ' Same as above but with only remove the FIRST space
=Value(Trim(Clean(A1))) ' Removes all white space before and after the text
' after removing all Non-Printable Characters
=Value(Trim(Clean(Substitute(A1," ","")))) ' Removes all white space before and after the
'after removing all Non-Printable Characters
' And after replaceing all spaces with nothing
=Value(Right(A1, Len(A1)-1)) ' This takes the End of your text by the number of characters
' in the value Except the First (In your case should be the Space)
=Value(SUBSTITUTE(I6,CHAR(160),"")) 'To help with the non breaking spaces also.
If nothing works could you please share Why you would like to remove the space? As in what you are trying to do with the data? As maybe that will open more solutions
With Ole Henrik Skogstrøm's Suggestion added Value around the functions to get the result as a value.
It may be Excel is treating your cells as text data. Is the fun Green Triangle present?
This is a common problem in excel. Forcing numeric is easier than text. Just format a column as number or General and then put in the function value() into the cells.
Things can be cleaned up from there with Copy/Paste Special values and then remove the original column.
Using Excel 2007
brettdj answered this for me. This is what worked for me and it was SIMPLE!!
To remove the CHAR(160) directly without a workaround formula go to
Find & Replace
in the Find What hold ALT and type 0160 using the numeric keypad
then Leave Replace With as blank and select Replace All
In your case, since you always have a string of numbers, where you want to remove just the first character (a space), this formula should work:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)
The numbers can vary in length, important is only, that you want to remove just 1, (or 2, or 3 etc) characters. It will still work. {If you had 2 empty spaces in front, then you would use in the formula -2, if three -3, etc)
However, if you had always a different amount of blanks in your string of numbers, like I had, you could use this formula, which worked for me:
=VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1),CHAR(160),""))
,assuming that the issue you are facing is code "160".
That you can find by typing: =code(A1), which in my case gave me the result "160". Therefore char(160) in the formula above.
So I have a csv file of around 15,000 rows. I only need to edit one of the 10 columns which is a Postcode. None of the columns have headers. It is currently in the format 'AB101AA' which I need to change to 'AB10 1AA'.
First off, is there a method for which I can do this for every row?
Then it gets more complicated in that Postcodes vary in format to these four types;
'A1 1AA',
'A10 1AA',
'AB1 1AA' and
'AB10 1AA'.
What I'm trying to do is to find a way to run through every row and first of all test the format to check whether it is as above and then edit if needs be, to force that space.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
How about opening it in Excel, then
Use a formula to add a column which takes the first LENGTH(A1)-3 characters, a space, and the last three characters (copy/paste, or drag the + on the lower right corner of the cell, to make sure the formula is replicated in every row of that new column)
Copy the extra column
Paste the values over the original column
Delete the extra column