I would like to cut out all a specific strong from 4000+ rows in Excel - but preserve a value from the string that I cut out.
The original:
(#partname )
Which I would like to be the following:
partname
These links/hyperlinks/codes are not in all the cells, but in some of the cells its present more than once. And in others not present at all.
I´m using Excel 2007.
I have however also tested in Excel 2010 - and tried to use the automatic tool to wipe out hyperlinks - it didn't work.
HERE ONE OF THE CELL-INFO (From cell A1):
<h2>PPC-308 Bright indictor</h2>
<h3>Original part for PPC</h3> <h3>This part fits all these models:</h3>
Model 1<br />
Model 2<br />
Model 3<br />
Model 4<br />
Model 5<br />
Model 6<br />
<p>PPC Bright Indicator will give you instant information as to your vehicles status. Once installed, simply turn your CSM battery on and the indicator will show you the power level of your battery. The SDF level indicator should only be used with hump back battery packs.
Adding the PPC <strong>Battery Pack</strong> (#2012 ) to your Machine increases stability performance and time.<strong> TXX </strong>(#87022) is recommended to support the battery.</p>
<p>The Battery Level Indicator is designed for battery packs such as the #A222 Hump Installer Pack. Kit includes:
<ul> <li>IDICATOR</li>
<li>MAGASINE</li> <li>COVER PLATE</li></ul>
This solution will need to be adjusted depending on the formatting with multiple hyperlinks. With one or none, this is fine.
I would insert two columns to the right of column with the hyperlink.
In the first column, I would insert a function =Right(Insert cell reference A1,13).
In the second column, I would insert the following functions =IF(Insert cell reference A1=Insert your hyperlink text,Left(Insert cell reference B1,9),"partname")
I would then copy and paste special values over the original and delete the two columns.
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I recently wanted to create an excel table to note all my electric components that I have so I can easily find the right component without searching every time for it.
The problem is, especially with capacitors, they come with a wide range of values generally for me between 220uF and 10pF, and I want to create a custom format to display the values properly in excel, for example if I put in a cell 0.00022 it shows 220uF or maybe 0.22mF (but 220uF is better) and not 2.2E-04 or any other format.
I tried the custom tool but I don't know how to add the micros, nanos and picos.
You can add conditions to the formatting, like:
[<0.00001] 0.00%%% "pF";[<0.001] 0.00% "uF";#
This will show 2.20%% uF in the cell (so you can multiply by using the percent sign, more details here).
Drawback: the percent signs are shown, and the Ctrl+J trick described on the link does not really work for me (and I personally find it as an ugly solution).
If I were you I'd add a new column called "Formatted" where I multiply the values with formulas. Like
=IF(A1<0.00001,A1*1000000 & "pF",IF(A1<0.001,A1*10000 & "uF"))
It's easier then to search in both columns (one is by formatted, like all "uF", other is by real Farad value. Also you could use the original column for sorting.
I have an Excel sheet with a very wide table on it. Due to developer friendlyness I'd like to use a certain style of column header naming (much like proper Hungarian notation), where I suffix each header name with "column type" tags. This allows me to easily spot where e.g. apples and oranges are compared. There are also pivot table reports based on this table.
An example to illustrate this: say you have 2 monetary columns, column A being expressed in another currency than column B. The model should thus never combine them without first applying appropriate exchange rates. To spot this I name these columns e.g. Earned - Cur1 and Saved - Cur2. Any calculation like =[#[Earned - Cur1]] + [#[Saved - Cur2]] is illegal, but due to the tags this can be picked up easily in an audit. I have several such tag groups in use already, and they already prevented some errors creeping in.
However...
The file also needs to be distributed to lots of not-so-savvy end users, and they need to fill in this table and refer to some of the outcome columns. Most intermediate columns we already hide, but the column names are now far from being user-friendly (like: fill out Actual - NK/Q1/EC/%, please?).
And this needs to run in Excel 2010.
What are my options?
Option 1
Add an extra row above the table, putting human readable names in there, and just hide the table header row. This works, but not the users can't sort and filter the table anymore, so that's a no-go.
Option 2
Augment option 1 by prepending a newline to each column name, and make the table header row 1 character high. The header cells would still be there to drive sorting and filtering and the users have human readable names in the row above. The actual header cells would appear like 'empty' buttons. Could work, but then the complex formulas become unreadable due to all the newlines from the column names all over the place.
Option 3
Add a macro that switches the headers in the table by alternative headers in another row above the table. The macro should be ran just before sending out the file to the users, and ran again when they return them filled in and all. I happily coded this option into the file, and it works wonderfully! But then I realized this (and thus option 2 as well) breaks all the derived pivot tables, since Excel links the data by the names used in the table - update the name, and that section of the pivot will be dropped...
I'd really like the option of having our development-oriented column names in there when we ourselves work with the file, but being able to switch out the headers when needed. And of course without rebuilding all the pivots after each such switch.
An opening here would be that pivots seem to only drop the columns once they're refreshed. I could use this to update the header names, then do some magic on the pivots to remap their fields, and only then refresh them, but it seems there's no way from within VBA to accomplish that (PivotField.SourceName is read only).
Hopefully someone can think of an alternative, or am I SOL? I'm totally open to other workarounds.
Workaround 1
Insert null-terminating characters in the header names such that they do not show normally in the formulas, but do not show in the table header row. If only it were that simple though... Turns out Excel throws up from a =Char(0)&"abc", and things like =Char(8)&"abc" (tab anyone?) give Unicode replacement characters when pasted into a header cell... (?)
Workaround 2
A last resort seems to be to unzip the excel file, and plough through the xml data to update everything in one go there, then rezip the file. But this code also needs to be executed by less skilled users, and I see too many ifs and buts to make me feel safe using this setup.
Workaround 3
For now I just use a variation on option 2; I have some VBA that 'empties' the header cells instead of prepending a newline to them. By 'emptying' I mean setting the font size to 1, subscript, non-bold, and then make the font color identical to the background color, followed by setting it's row height to the default 14.5. The cryptic names do leak out however; column header cell drop down arrows for sorting&filtering show the cryptic name, as well as the pivot field settings and of course the formula bar when you just click such a cell. But I guess it's the best I can do?
And then again I'm probably just perfectionizing this thing faaar to much :) But from this point on it's about the challenge!
Make sure you Tick the Box "Add this data to the DataModel" when creating your pivot(s)
AFAIK when your Pivots are connected to the Datamodel instead of directly to the Range/Table you can change your column-names in the Table and your Pivot will stay fine. You could even use other names in your Pivot.
I know that you can query a cube by connecting from Excel to Analysis database and using formulas like cubevalue() or cubemember().
I also know that after converting the power pivot to formulas, you can access the attribute and the value related only by writing a text.
Example: for Branch Dimension, instead of writing
cubemember("connections";"[DimBranch].[Name].[All].[London])" )
you can write in the cell only "London". However, this won't work if you have a parent-child dimension and want to retrieve the amount for one of the intermediate levels.
Did anyone know about how can you avoid writing these formulas directly by the end-user ?
I´ve done this several times. I can describe the approach I´ve used in the past.
You need to define the input from the user, for example Fiscal Year, Fiscal Period,... and create a tab with a friendly layout for this solely purpose.
After that you create your pivot/pivots against the cube/s you want to query with the data extraction that you need (obiously these pivots will refer to the Fiscal Year and Period). Define the desired layout for these pivots (as you want them you be shown). Once You´ve done this, you need to convert into formulas these pivots, including parameters. You´ll see that values placed in the measure box contain a formula cubevalue which makes reference to the connection itself and several cubemembers. It makes reference to the measure as well.
The trickiest part comes now, when you need to modify your cubemember function to take value from the input, something like cubemember("connections";"[DimBranch].[Name].[All].["+MyReferenceCell+")" ), and you have your dimension picked up from a value entered by a user.
If you have as a matter of fact, serveral pivots referencing common dimensions, you need to make the reference this modified cubemember cell affected by user input, otherwise you have to modify all affected cubemembers in your pivots converted to formulas.
This has a really good advantage: depending on the excel´s version, all pivots are automatically recalulated if you change the value in the user´s input cell without hitting the refresh all button.
On the other hand, the disadvantage comes when your report in excel contains a list of values from a dimension which can grow. After converting pivots into formulas those new values for the dimension are lost. That´s why you can always place a control if you have the total value int he pivots regardless the dimension value.
I hope this helps.
Regards
One of the reports that wastes a bunch of my time at work is the Roster. It's a multi-site, multi-contract listing of every employee currently assigned to a specific client. Currently, it has a little over 6,000 lines by 20-something columns, indexed against 3 different datasets. Not the largest mess in the world, but still a pain. And it's almost all in excel, because I somehow don't have a business case for Access.
But one part of this monster stands apart. One tab per site Site Totals, listing off every time any agent has gone through training. A second tab (again, one per site) Site Data displaying only the most recent training class, and the credentials they had during that class.
That second tab is driven by variations of this array formula - Last_Row is a named range on another tab, and column A is a pivot of the UID column on Site Totals. I've broken it apart for readability:
=IF(INDEX('Site Totals'!B:B,LARGE(($A2=INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row))*
(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!B1:B"&Last_Row)<>"")*
ROW(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row)),1))="Trainer",
"",
INDEX('Site Totals'!B:B,LARGE(($A2=INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row))*
(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!B1:B"&Last_Row)<>"")*
ROW(INDIRECT("'Site Totals'!$A$1:$A$"&Last_Row)),1)))
I know what this formula does, but I don't know how to improve it. This formula needs to be changed, because it currently is on the order of 500 Million calculations (I'm not allowed to delete historical data), and it takes me 3 hours to calculate the workbook ... if it doesn't crash Excel first.
I'm open to VBA and / or custom functions, but would prefer to have native Excel functions. I'm not able to install anything, so any solution must be native Excel, and Must be compatible to Excel 2007.
If your source is a pivot table, try is the GETPIVOTDATA function. You might be able to accomplish what you want without INDIRECT and INDEX.
What i have understood is that every person has/has not attended a training and you want to retrive the name of that training, in case he has not, you want a blank space in the cell. If this description is correct you can try this formua, press ctrl+shift+enter to execute.
=IFERROR(INDEX('Site Totals'!B$1:B$12,MATCH(A2&"Trainer",'Site Totals'!A$1:A$12&'Site Totals'!B$1:B$12)),"")
Here A2 contians the name of the person. I can be more precise with this formula if you can provide some sample data butI would recommend to not to use entire B & Columns in Site Total workssheete as this will definately slow down computing process, instead you can use B1:B8000 or smaller range, to speed up process. Hope that helps.
I have a sheet (let's go with wines as an example) that lists every bottle of wine in my cellar, when I bought it, how much I paid etc.
There's a column that describes the wine in comma-separated tags such as "Fruity, White".
I've created a pivot table from that data, with the description as a filter column. However I can't filter it by "White". I have to find every description that contains "White" such as "Dry, White", "White, Crisp" etc.
Being from an RDBMS background, my natural inclination is to put the tags in their own table keyed against the wine row so there's zero-or-more tag rows per wine row.
How, how on earth can I use that to filter the wine rows?
Yes you can do it within Excel and the description fields can remain as "Dry, White" etc as you do not need to split the comma separated values.
Lets say the Table source comprises a text column for Description, a number column for Value and a number column for Year Bought.
Your pivot is setup with the the following
Fields: Description, Value and Year Bought.
Column labels: Year Bought
Row Labels: Description
Sum of values: Sum of Value
There is a drop down label filter on the row labels - click on this and there should be an option to select Label Filters. Select this and then select Contains. You can enter say "White" which will select all your descriptions that contain white e.g. "Dry, White", "White, Crisp". The filter includes ? to represent a single character and * to represent any series of characters.
There are similar label filters for "begins with" and "ends with" as well as there negation.
I tried this in Excel 2007 and it should also work in 2003. I think in Excel 2003 you could even combine the filters e.g. contains "White" and does not contain "Dry" but in 2007 I could not find a way of doing this.
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but the reason you're having problems here is that the description column is not in 1NF, and the Excel pivot interface isn't flexible enough to allow pattern-based searching.
The simplest option will be to normalise the CSV into a series of columns, each of which represents a single attribute - one column for wine colour, one for sweetness, one for country of origin and so on - and apply the filter across multiple columns. However, if (as your comment on the question suggests) wine is a metaphor for your real problem, you may not have the luxury of revisiting the design of the source data.
Another possibility might be to use a macro (or a database query - I'm not clear from your question whether you have implemented the tag system already) to pre-filter the input data on the pivot table's source sheet based on the tag values you want to search for, then re-refresh the pivot table based on that data.
A third possibility is the VBA used in this question, which looks like it will custom-filter the pivot table's visible rows.
=IF(ISERR(FIND("WHITE",UPPER(B5))),0,1)
create an extra column and add a formula. There are 2 tricks to this. One is to search for WHITE in the description column using upper - to beat the fact that excel find is case sensitive. Two is that it returns a value error if the string does not exist - so iserr will allow you to trap that and return in this example 0 if it doesn't or 1 if it does. You could substitute white and blank for 1 and 0.
you could write a script that loops through the data and adds new lines for each comma separated item in the description column. This would allow the pivot table to filter better.