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I currently have this formula in a cell. It requires people to enter x for the calculation to take place. How can I change it so it will calculate as long as any character is entered into the cell? =SUMPRODUCT(--(Q7:T7="x"),CHOOSE({1,2,3,4},E7,H7,K7,N7)) TY in advance

Hi all, Workbook Demo. As the tilte says, this is just a standard vba inputbox that I have customized with the use of the Windows API in order to validate user input dynamically as you type-in as well as masking the input with a password character (*) if required. Another cool functionality I...

I want to count in cell B1 how many times the character ";" exists in Cell A1 In cell C1 I want to calculate which number character the 2nd ; is positioned Cell A1: yes;no;maybe;google;uk

Greetings, I know how to use INSTR to see if a string contains a specific character, and I know how to use INSTR to return the index number of a character in a string. How do I search a string for a specific character at a known index number? In other words, tell me if there is a 5 at index...

Hi Everyone, I've scoured previous posts in the hopes of not creating a new thread, and found some great stuff, but it's not 100% accurate and also I'm not getting it. Here's what I'm trying to do, please: Cell A1 has the word AARDVARK. Count how many A's are in that word. We all know it's...

PROBLEM: I have 2 forms in my workbook. An entry form, and a edit form. The problem I have is with the edit form. For reasons too long to get into here, I have no blank cells within the spreadsheets range where all the data that is entered and is stored. When a cell is left blank (when...

Hey, I have a bunch of files with similar names but I only need to list the ones that contain "#" character. I tried a couple of ways but no luck. File list: Intercompany Recs Bulgaria # 0059.xlsb Intercompany Recs Bulgaria ∣ 0059 - Copy.xlsb Intercompany Recs Bulgaria ☠ 0059.xlsb Intercompany...

I've inherited a workbook with a bullseye symbol in cell A1. The curious thing is that the formula bar shows nothing in the cell other than a wide space. When I check it with the formula in B1 =CODE(A1), it returns 158. When I enter the formula =CHAR(B1) it returns the character "ž". If I...

Hello dear excel helpfull friends. İ have text in excel. but there are two : characters in one row. i want to replace second one of : character. example i have this: silav dan: merheba hevalno: çawa ne: silav gelî hevalan. i want to replace second : with ?? an must be as below: silav dan...

I am trying to write either a formula or Macro to find the last space in a string before the 38th character. My problem is that my data is not standard and I don't want to truncate in the middle of a word that falls at 37 characters. See example below. <tbody> Free-bird Real Opportunities...

Good afternoon! I pulled several thousand formulas into a spreadsheet and brought them in with the ' front of the =. Now that I have modified the formulas and am ready to calculate them all I need to get rid of the '. I've tried a dozen or more methods of doing this and have failed every time...

I have a spreadsheet with a list of Chinese names, and a macro to read all those names into a array. Most of the names worked fine, but there is one name contains the character 袝, and it become ? in the array. I'm guessing that it contains some special character in the unicode. Could somebody...

Tell me, are there any formulas that can implement this?

Hi I ma hope some one can help me with the following . I have the follow data . I need to return the size only i.e XXS, XS S M,L,XL,2XL...which starts from one character after the "-" <colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody> DS2118-O/N-AXXS DS2118-O/N-BXS DS2118-O/N-CS DS2118-O/N-DM...

Hi All, Got alot of data and only interested in the references which have a latter in the 14th character. For example, the references are LLLLLLLLLLLLLL, and say LLLLLLLLLLLLL9. Im only interested in the data where the 14th character of this reference is a letter (LLLLLLLLLLLLLL) and not a...

I searched for a similar question but I did not find another thread, so hopefully this is the right place to ask my question. In Sheet 'Text' I have one column (A) with one character in each cell (Chinese characters). In Sheet 'Dict' I have one column (A) with a personalized dictionary. Each...

I need a formula that extracts every other character from a cell. For example: 112233445566 778899,, aaBBcc## Would become: 123456 789, aBc# Any ideas? Thanks!

I have an Excel spreadsheet where I'm pulling data from a CSV file using Microsoft Query. One of the fields is an invoice #. Most of the invoices are all numeric (34046), but some have an alpha character after the # (34046A). The query pulls all the numeric values fine, but the ones with the...

Consider the following table, Table A. Table A: <tbody> A B 1 1 2 A 3 1A 4 A1 5 2 6 B 7 2B 8 B2 9 3 10 C 11 3C 12 C3 </tbody> I would like to apply a SUMPRODUCT formula for Table A that has a LEFT function argument applied to it, so that it...

I think what I'm trying to do is quite straight forward, but I just can't find the right functions or combination of functions to do - partly because some of the obvious functions don't allow wildcards. I have a column of cells which could contain one of five letters as the first character (P...