Cuts string of list of items
An old lesson to one of my early classes to show how can we cut a string having list of items into its parts. (At least 1st three parts) using formulas only.
Category: LEFT
Cells with additional spaces
Detect which cells has additional spaces added by mistake by user. =IF(AND(Left(F2, 2) = “No”, LEN(F2) >2, “Space at end”, “”)
Always get 1st name (or last)
Formula to get first name from 2 formats either (Lastname, First) or (Firstname Last) formats.
VALUE() of LEFT()
I have been in a lot of situation needing to convert a number came out from a string into actual numbers. Sometimes N() worked, sometimes not, others VALUE() worked, but I did not see a function-does-all solution.
Get column name (columnname as A,B,C, etc) as input inside cell
Excel already has the formula ROW() =Row() Which as we may already know will give us the number of the row we are in, if you add no parameters However, the COLUMN() is kind of tricky Because of the fact that cell addresses (or references) are based on the old style of R1C1 =Column()
iframe in Excel (XLiFrame)
This is the iframe in Excel, if you are familiar with the HTML concept of iframe, you will understand this one right away, it is basically the same project as HoScrollArea but with vertical scroll too. Formulas used to bring actual data is: =IF(OFFSET(INDIRECT(“‘”&$F$2&”‘!$A$1″),$D7-1,$D$6-6+COLUMN())=””,””,OFFSET(INDIRECT(“‘”&$F$2&”‘!$A$1”),$D7-1,$D$6-6+COLUMN())) While formula used to bring header labels: