If I have entered a certain 4 digit number for example ,1234 how do I choose like the first 2 numbers or the last two numbers from the cell by that i mean suppose i want it to return 34 for the last two digits and I want it to return 12 for the first two digits. So anytime I change my 4 digit number it works the same way.
You may use the LEFT and RIGHT functions, e.g.
=LEFT("1234", 2)
=RIGHT("1234", 2)
If your 4-digit number is, in fact, a string you can parse the string as suggested by #Tim Biegeleisen. In my Excel 365, when I enter 1234 in a cell formatted as General I can use the same method.
=LEFT(A1, 2)
and
=Right(A1, 2)
However, this conversion of a number to text mustn't be presumed to work under all circumstances. Therefore you may prefer to convert the number to text explicitly in the formula.
=LEFT(TEXT(A1,"0000"), 2)
and
=Right(TEXT(A1,"0000"), 2)
This method has the added advantage of being able to handle numbers of less than 4 digits.
On the other hand, you can also extract first and last digits from a true number, without converting it to text.
=INT(A1/100)
and
=MOD(A1,100)
The main difference is that the results are also numbers (all partial strings are text). Therefore this would be the preferred method if you don't want to worry about strings, text, numbers, numerics and cell formats.
is it possible to custom filter in Excel so that I get the data that contain INC followed by a series of number? (numbers vary)
I would like to get data like:
Request raised (INC12460031)
email sent in order to set up SNOW ticket INC12168408
Excluding the following examples: INCorrect, INConvenience etc.
(...)37 hours are mentioned which seems to be incorrect.
Please accept our apologies for all the inconvenience caused.
You can achieve that with an Advanced Filter.
The formula in E2 excludes items where the character following "INC" isn't a number greater than 0. Observe that the created MidString has a length of only one character. You could increase that number even to the point of including the entire word. Such an increase would ensure that numbers starting with zero aren't excluded.
Trying to write a custom data validation formula that would only allow values in the following format: 2-digit year (this can be just 2 numbers), dash ("-"), then a 1 or 2 letter character(s) (would prefer upper case, but would settle for lower case), another dash ("-"), and then a 5-digit number. So the final value looks like: 17-FL-12345 ...or 16-G-00008...
I actually have a but more, but if I could get the above working, that would be terrific. I don't know if there's a way, but it would be great if additionally I could use custom formatting to get the dashes to appear when they are not entered, i.e., user enters "17FL12345" and it gets automatically formatted to "17-FL-12345". Finally, again, this isn't a deal breaker either, but it would also be great if the last 5 digits would add any leading zero's, i.e., the user enters 17-G-8 (or just 17G8) and it gets formatted to 17-G-00008.
Can't use VBA unfortunately. Some potential solutions to similar questions I've viewed include:
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/615799-data-validation-mixed-numeric-text-formula-only.html
Data VAlidation - Text Length & Character Type
Excel : Data Validation, how to force the user to enter a string that is 2 char long?
Try this:
=AND(ISNUMBER(VALUE(LEFT(A1,2))),MID(A1,3,1)="-",OR(ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,4,1),$C$1)),AND(ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,4,1),$C$1)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,5,1),$C$1)))),MID(A1,LEN(A1)-5,1)="-",ISNUMBER(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,5))),OR(LEN(A1)=11,LEN(A1)=10),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",""))=2,LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"+",""))=0,LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))=0)
Assuming, you want to validate A1. I inserted the letters in C1.
Edit:
I edited the original function, to be more secure and left out the Isnumber part and rather went digit by digit.
If you want exceed the 255 limit, you have to slice the function up.
I created 5 functions.
=AND(ISNUMBER(FIND(LEFT(A1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,2,1),$C$2)))
=MID(A1,3,1)="-"
=IF(LEN(A1)=10,AND(ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,4,1),$C$1)),MID(A1,5,1)="-"),IF(LEN(A1)=11,AND(ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,4,1),$C$1)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,5,1),$C$1)))))
=IF(LEN(A1)=10,MID(A1,5,1)="-",IF(LEN(A1)=11,MID(A1,6,1)="-"))
=IF(LEN(A1)=10,AND(ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,6,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,7,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,8,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,9,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,10,1),$C$2))),IF(LEN(A1)=11,AND(ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,7,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,8,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,9,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,10,1),$C$2)),ISNUMBER(FIND(MID(A1,11,1),$C$2)))))
Set up data validation as on the picture:
I want to force users to enter data in a specific cell in a sequence like ABCDE1234F
i.e. first five characters must me letters then four digits and last must be a letter using custom data validation.
It is quite long:
=AND(ISNUMBER(SUMPRODUCT(SEARCH("~"&MID(A1,ROW($1:$5),1),"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"))),ISNUMBER(SUMPRODUCT(SEARCH("~"&MID(A1,ROW($6:$9),1),"0123456789"))),ISNUMBER(SUMPRODUCT(SEARCH("~"&MID(A1,10,1),"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"))),LEN(A1)=10)
It goes through each of the required text characters and checks if it is a number or a string. Then it test the full range of numbers for text. It also ensures that it is ten characters long.
You may try following formula
=AND(ISTEXT(LEFT(A1,5)),ISNUMBER(MID(A1,6,4)*1),ISTEXT(MID(A1,10,1)),IF(LEN(A1)=10,TRUE,FALSE))
On a daily basis I need to load data to one of our systems. However Excel deletes the previous zeros in front of the contractor IDs. So i have to add THREE zeros manually. I normally use the CONCATENATE function however now the IDs are coming differently so some IDs now only need to have TWO zeros added.
example:
ID
911111
I use concatenate to make it look like:
000911111
I came up with the IF formula that detects if the ID starts with a number NINE, to concatenate TWO zeros and if not, then to add THREE zeros.
example:
=IF(LEFT(A32,1)="9",CONCATENATE("00",A32),CONCATENATE("000",A32))
Now I want to create this formula as a custom defined so I do not have to write down the formula ever time I work on the data every day.
Any suggestions I will really appreciate.
In addition to the formatting responses provided in the comments, you could use the RIGHT function to cut off the leading zeroes to the appropriate amount.
For example, assuming A1 holds a string of numbers, between 0 & 9 digits long. We can create text representing a 9 digit string, with as many leading zeroes as necessary, as follows:
=RIGHT(REPT("0",9) & A1,9)
REPT("0",9) tells Excel to repeat the character "0" 9 times. It then tacks on whatever text is in A1. Then it takes only the rightmost 9 characters of the concatenation.
I generally would recommend the Formatting options noted in those comments, unless you need the text to be 9 characters for other formula purposes.