Good morning, what a great site!
I wonder if you could help
I have to sort through different reports from different departments on a monthly basis & turn them into something which (hopefully!) makes sense.
One issue we have is that I have to go through the different (unconfirmed) descriptions that people give to different enquiries & boil them down to a set of approved descriptions (the approved set is now about 20,000 but is added to all of the time)
I have suggested to the powers-that-be that they could use some data validation or drop-down menus in order to get people to use a set of approved descriptions. But apparently the different departments NEED this free text type option (& yup, they answered in capitals!)
Im wondering if theres a piece of code which would allow me to something like this:
1. Show the incoming list of unconfirmed descriptions in one column (generally 100,000 different descriptions but can be more or less)
2. Display on each row the different approved descriptions which are contained in that text.
NB I should have mentioned that the text can also contain digits, slashes, dashes etc)
So for example, Column A contains the set of approved descriptions, Column C contains the set of unconfirmed descriptions and then Columns D, E, F, G etc contain the approved descriptions which are contained inside that text.
And no entries if there it contains zero "approved!
EG:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]approved[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]unconfirmed descriptions[/TD]
[TD]approved 1[/TD]
[TD]approved 2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]2 inch nut with special thread[/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]plate[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]bolt - TBC[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]insert[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]backplate[/TD]
[TD]plate[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]insert assembly with nut[/TD]
[TD]insert[/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
If anybody could point me in the right direction, Id be eternally grateful. And may even stop thinking terrible thoughts about the people that type in 25 massive nails one week, then 26 massive nails the next, then 27, then blah blah the following week lol!!!!
Many thanks
Neil.
I have to sort through different reports from different departments on a monthly basis & turn them into something which (hopefully!) makes sense.
One issue we have is that I have to go through the different (unconfirmed) descriptions that people give to different enquiries & boil them down to a set of approved descriptions (the approved set is now about 20,000 but is added to all of the time)
I have suggested to the powers-that-be that they could use some data validation or drop-down menus in order to get people to use a set of approved descriptions. But apparently the different departments NEED this free text type option (& yup, they answered in capitals!)
Im wondering if theres a piece of code which would allow me to something like this:
1. Show the incoming list of unconfirmed descriptions in one column (generally 100,000 different descriptions but can be more or less)
2. Display on each row the different approved descriptions which are contained in that text.
NB I should have mentioned that the text can also contain digits, slashes, dashes etc)
So for example, Column A contains the set of approved descriptions, Column C contains the set of unconfirmed descriptions and then Columns D, E, F, G etc contain the approved descriptions which are contained inside that text.
And no entries if there it contains zero "approved!
EG:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]approved[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]unconfirmed descriptions[/TD]
[TD]approved 1[/TD]
[TD]approved 2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]2 inch nut with special thread[/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]plate[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]bolt - TBC[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]insert[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]backplate[/TD]
[TD]plate[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]insert assembly with nut[/TD]
[TD]insert[/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD]nut[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
If anybody could point me in the right direction, Id be eternally grateful. And may even stop thinking terrible thoughts about the people that type in 25 massive nails one week, then 26 massive nails the next, then 27, then blah blah the following week lol!!!!
Many thanks
Neil.