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    Using a helper cell to return a month value

    Hi, I have a column of date windows formatted as "mm/dd--mm/dd" (so, not in an actual "date" format recognizable by Excel), and I want to use a helper cell to pull the first two numbers from that column, and then another column to pull that number, and return it in "mmm" format. For example...
  2. D

    Find lowest value with conditions

    Hi all, I am trying to find the way to obtain the minimum value from a range, with some conditions. So I have column A with some list of products, and each one have a list of countries (column B). Column A therefor has many duplicates, and Column B should be unique values, per each Col A...
  3. JEH105

    Conditional Formatting for Triple+ Values in Column

    Hello and help! I am trying to set up a conditional formatting formula that highlights similar values in the same column (Column U) listed more than 2 times. The issue is that I need the formula to only match the text before the "/" character, since the number will always be unique. Example...
  4. Jyggalag

    How to do LEFT/RIGHT/some other formula to return only top part of text from a box?

    Hi all, I have a lot of cells that look like this: Now, what I would like, is to have a formula that returns ONLY the top part of cell A3 I have separated the texts by pressing ALT + ENTER and then typing: Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 instead of Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Is there a way in which I...
  5. Jyggalag

    How to use OR formula in Excel correctly? With IF and LEFT

    Hi all, I am currently trying out this formula: Copy of my formula: =if(A5=Left(A5;5)="Bob G"OR(A5=Left(A5;5)="George G");"This formula works!";"This formula does not work!") Essentially, what I want to achieve is for my formula to return "This formula works!" if the value in cell A5 is...
  6. Jyggalag

    Remove unnecessary commas and space from cells

    Hi all, I currently have a very large data sheet that looks like this: In this example, I've just put in a format of: Date,Name,Gender Please note that some of the cells however might only have Date,Gender or Name,Gender or Date,Gender etc. My ideal format would be: Date,Name,Gender...
  7. Jyggalag

    Remove ONE value from a cell?

    Hi all, I am currently working with a data set that looks like this: I would like a formula that takes all the values in column A, and if they begin with a comma (","), it should remove this So the result should be like this: Does anybody have a formula for this? It would be greatly...
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    Sum formula & Lookup on another column

    Hi all. I'm attempting match col A with embedded name on column E. so far i have extracted the match, but I want to add up all the values pertaining to the hardcoded list in A:A. also the number after the name is always one space apart from the end of the name. like "dsgdf 100" See below...
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    Removing Part of Cell/Text

    Hello - Trying to come up with formula that will give me the number from a different cell, but the cell I am trying to reference also had letters, Example: The cell referenced, lets call it A1, contains: '4 yrs'. I would like cell A2 to calculate 4. I tried doing a =LEFT(A1,1), but the issue I...
  10. S

    Count if query

    I am wondering if someone can help assemble a formula. I have a rota and wish to count the amount of people on night shift. Easy enough to separate and total them with a "countif" however, when people mobilise, instead of the usual "NS" for nightshift or "1" for Day shift, we now have the...
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    countifs starts with

    Hi! I have the formula COUNTIFS(INDIRECT("'"&$E12&"'!$I:$I");"A*") but instead of A* (to say that it should select the values that start with that) I want to put a cell (f4) which says A. How can I do that? Thank you very much
  12. S

    VBA to extract string between 2 special characters (where spec. characters appear twice)

    I'm looking for some VBA to extract the text: 1620011017 from the below string; Inv_1620056384_1620011017_1034258 There could be any number of characters, so I think I would need to define it based on the fact it's the string between the 2 underscores. I think starting from the right of the...
  13. A

    Using mid/len/left/right/find

    I need excel formulas that will help me differentiate each piece of these cells. Here are examples of the cells Elephant12-8Wb CAT193-45M I already have the formula to get Elephant and CAT on their own. But then I need formulas to get 12 and 193, 8 and 45, and Wb and M on their own. Thank you...
  14. D

    Unable to convert date+time (yy/mm/dd hh:mm) format to excel date

    I have the following column with dates, that I need to convert for excel to recognize them as dates: 21/02/12 15:34 21/02/15 21:18 21/02/17 22:06 21/02/15 21:37 21/02/15 16:05 21/02/17 20:53 21/02/17 00:55 21/02/17 02:34 21/02/19 05:31 I have tried using DATEVALUE, TEXT...
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    VBA copy LEFT function / formula down all cells in column

    Hi guys! Long time reader, first time poster. Getting very frustrated with my VBA so any help is appreciated. In my worksheet "Paste Data", I have a string of text in column G and need to use the LEFT formula to find and copy the text before the character " - " into column H. My VBA code...
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    Insert dashes within character string, within an array.

    ISO VBA command to insert a dash (hyphen) as the 5th character from the left, and 6th character from the right, in a string of varying length, within an array. For example... Column Z contains the following list of values: MSEAVIMA0013S MSEAVIRM0016S MOLPVIRM0017S MOLS130012S MSEAVIRM0011S...
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    Need help nesting a VLookup inside an index, I think?

    Hello all, I've got a problem with a table I set up. Here is the reference table: 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 Division # Div Name Division OH Division OH Division OH Division OH Division OH Division OH Division OH...
  18. M

    VBA - Need help formatting a row range based on string or format in column A

    I have the code below that works. It searches column A looking for "00" as the left most characters and then formats that cell with white text and black interior. Dim cel As Range For Each cel In Range("A6:A300") If Left(cel.Value, 2) = "00" Then cel.Font.Color = vbWhite cel.Interior.Color =...
  19. R

    Extract more than 2 words into various cells

    I have a string of text in Google Sheets - I would assume is the same formula I can get the first 2 words - but not sure how to expand to get 3rd + In Cell F2 I have typed: (no bold) Wall panels for interior wall FIRST WORD =LEFT(F2; SEARCH(" ";F2;1)-1) SECOND WORD =MID(F2; SEARCH(" ";F2) +...
  20. tourless

    Removing the Last Two...

    Hi Folks, I know this has been asked a thousand times and I'm trying to implement some of the solutions I've found but I just can't seem to get this to work. I have values in column I that four decimal places deep and I simply want to remove the last two characters. The problem I'm noticing...

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