BlackieHamel
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Friends,
I need this for a word puzzle I'm making. I have a list of 6-letter words that all contain SOU, and I want to strip out the SOU to find the remainder. But there's a twist. I need to think of these 6-letter words written underneath each other, so the SOU position in the 6-letter word may be written forward or backward, and even part at the beginning and part at the end of a word. In all cases, the SOU will appear, in that order, as the top half and the trigram I'm looking for is the remaining 3 letters. Thus, XES OUT can be written
SOU
EXT
reading clockwise, so the "correct answer" is EXT. Using a kind-of made-up word, AQUOSE, it could also be counterclockwise:
SOU
EAQ
. . . and the answer should read EAQ.
Is there a way I can do this with a formula that can then be copied? My examples don't always include SOU, and sometimes there are hundreds of possibilities, so I'm looking for a formula I can just "copy down."
Here are more examples of successful 3-letter transformations, given the 6-letter words in the first column.
[TABLE="width: 128"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"]SOURON[/TD]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"]NOR[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]SOUTER[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]RET[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]OUSELS[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]LES[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]SOUSED[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]DES[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]XESOUT[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]EXT
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
AQUOSE EAQ
I don't even know if this is possible in Excel, but if someone knows how, I bet they're here in MrExcel. Thanks!
Blackie
[TABLE="width: 128"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
I need this for a word puzzle I'm making. I have a list of 6-letter words that all contain SOU, and I want to strip out the SOU to find the remainder. But there's a twist. I need to think of these 6-letter words written underneath each other, so the SOU position in the 6-letter word may be written forward or backward, and even part at the beginning and part at the end of a word. In all cases, the SOU will appear, in that order, as the top half and the trigram I'm looking for is the remaining 3 letters. Thus, XES OUT can be written
SOU
EXT
reading clockwise, so the "correct answer" is EXT. Using a kind-of made-up word, AQUOSE, it could also be counterclockwise:
SOU
EAQ
. . . and the answer should read EAQ.
Is there a way I can do this with a formula that can then be copied? My examples don't always include SOU, and sometimes there are hundreds of possibilities, so I'm looking for a formula I can just "copy down."
Here are more examples of successful 3-letter transformations, given the 6-letter words in the first column.
[TABLE="width: 128"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"]SOURON[/TD]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"]NOR[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]SOUTER[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]RET[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]OUSELS[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]LES[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]SOUSED[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]DES[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]XESOUT[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]EXT
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
AQUOSE EAQ
I don't even know if this is possible in Excel, but if someone knows how, I bet they're here in MrExcel. Thanks!
Blackie
[TABLE="width: 128"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]