I would like to know about excel find and copy text in next column in excel. I have a column A with text or sentences. I want to find a particular word and copy that word into next column that is column B only if that word is available in text of Column A.
Suppose Cell 1 of column A is:
"Execution of procedure and processes".
I want to search for word as "Processes" and that should copy in Column B (cell 1) "ONLY IF" processes word is available in text.
Could you please help me out in this?
One more thing to confirm that in the same formula, does it work if I want 2 words to find. Lets say 1 is processes and other is procedure. I want a single formula for both search words and it gives a single result with one word where applicable.
For your special case:
"Execution of procedure and processes" in A1.
Formula in B1:
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("processes", A1)), "processes", "")
SEARCH("processes", A1) searches the text "processes" in cell A1. If it is found, a number holding the position is returned, if it is not found, NOTHING is returned.
ISNUMBER checks if the returned value is a number. This is only the case if the word is found. If yes, the returned value is true, otherwise it is false.
IF in cell B1 evaluates ISNUMBER's return value. If it is true, "processes" is returned, populating cell B1 with "processes". If it is false, an empty text "" is returned.
This can be summed up into the common case:
Text in A1.
Word to look for in C1.
Formula in B1:
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(C1, A1)), C1, "")
Evaluating to: if the text in C1 can be found in A1, put the text in C1 into B1, otherwise put an empty text into B1.
If you put this in column B:
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("processes", A4)), MID(A4, SEARCH("processes", A4), 9), "")
it will copy the text from column A that matches (case-insentitive) the word "processes" to column B.
kaedinger's solution shows how to "parameterise" the search with a word in column C, which is a good thing. If you wanted to copy the matching text from column A, you would need to measure the length of the word in column C, where I have hardcoded '9' above.
(ref: http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/excel-help/compare-cell-contents-HP003056130.aspx)
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I want to fill an excel column with a specific value where another column in the same sheet is not null(I've used '-' for all the empty cells). Can I automate this?
For example, in the screenshot, where ever I have a value, I want to insert 'Hi' (Only at the places with a value) and omit where there is blank space represented by '-'. Also, it should not edit the values in B column if there is anything already present in it.
You can use if function to do this task. Suppose you have data to test in Cell A1 then you can enter Formula in cell B1 as =if(A1<>"-","Hi","") this means if Data in cell A1 is not - then enter Hi in cell B1 else keep B1 empty. See Screenshot attached.
You can do the following: suppose column A is full of values and you want to fill column B with "-". First, write the value "-" in the cell "C1", then select column B and write in B1 =$C$1 and then press Ctrl+Enter Key that's it
=IFERROR(IF(B1="","-",COUNTBLANK(INDIRECT("B1:B"&ROW()-1))+1),1)
Or avoiding INDIRECT:
=IFERROR(IF(B1="","-",SUM(IF(INDEX(B:B,SEQUENCE(ROW()-1))="",1))+1),1)
I have a column compromising of text, I would like to search through that entire column to identify in which cell does the contents contain text that I am searching for.
Snip of the excel data
I need to search for the text in the first column and identify which cell in the final column contains the data I am searching for.
You use this formula,
=IfError(VLOOKUP (A2, A2:D25, 3,False),"")
This formula will search for value match with A2 in data range A2:D25, in Column 3 means in C,, if find pull the match otherwise return a Blank. U can write "Value not found" within quotes also.
Use the formula in some column , say I,
=IF(ISERROR(FIND($A$1,F1,1)),"",F1)
Drag down till the end of list. This will return what all matches A1 with column F. If you want to search for A2, change the formula to A2 and do the same. This cannot be done for all columns in A with all columns with F as there is a chance that the same string can be found in one or more cells in F.
I am unsure how I can do this. I need to be able to take a cell and search each word in that cell and check to see if that word is within a different column.
IF word in A1 is within B:B Then
copy word to C1
Next word
In this example all the words in A1 are searched within all cells in column B the words that match are copied to C1.
What's a good way to search a column of text (e.g. A1:A10) by adjecent cell (e.g. B1) and return a binary value (e.g. 0 or 1) in the next column (e.g. C1:C10)?
my 'un-elegant' approach so far: use VLOOKUP, then filter and delete all fields that return an error.
A simple MATCH will do for you
=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH("*"&B1&"*",A1:A10,0)),1,0)
if I understand your question correctly you are wanting column C to show 1 or 0 depending on whether text in column B appears in text in column A, if so:
formula in C2 to extend down =if(find(B2, A2) > 0, 1, 0)
FIND will return the location of the first occurrence of the first argument within the second
EDIT
Ok, if you want to check all of column A use this:
=OR(NOT(ISERROR(FIND(B1, A1:A8))))
Again its array formula so complete with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
So its doing a FIND for B1 against all of column A, any row that doesn't contain B1 is going to return an error. So now you have an array whose values are either ERROR or a number indicating B1 is found, you can then use the ISERROR function on each element of the array and then NOT each element, you will then have a TRUE for each row B1 appears in, then collapse it all to a single value using OR :) you can extend this formula in B1 down for the other rows but make sure to lock A1:A8 as in $A$1:$A$8
I have two columns. Each cell in column A contains a full sentences and each cell in column B contains a word or phrase. I would like to check if the contents of each cell in column B appears in one of the cells in column A---it could appear in multiple cells in column A or in no cells. The output just needs to be a yes or no (and should be spit out in column C) for my purposes, but it would be neat to return the number of times each column B word came up somewhere in Column A.
So far I haven't figured out how to take a discrete string of letters (already printed in one cell) and search across a range in a column. Not sure if this is beyond the regular excel functionality.
Thanks very much for your help!
Use array formula like this:
=SUM(IF(ISERROR(SEARCH(B1,A:A,1)),0,1))
enter in formula bar then press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.
Hope this helps.
Put formula in C.
Try This :
=countif(a:a,"*" & b2 & "*")>0 gives you result in True/Flase
To get the occurrence
=countif(a:a,"*" & b2 & "*")
To get YES/NO
=if(countif(a:a,"*" & b2 & "*")>0,"YES","NO")