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.
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Always get 1st name (or last)
Formula to get first name from 2 formats either (Lastname, First) or (Firstname Last) formats.
Worksheet name, dynamically using formula
Get the name of the active worksheet in active workbook, using formulas only This function needs to have workbook saved Then, you just paste below formula into any cell …
Text-to-Columns, dynamically using formulas
I often use the technique of concatenating columns into 1 cell with separators. Something like the CSV, 1 line that has all values for a single row (all columns for that row) into 1 text block. And then, because of that, I need to extract that back, into table
Extract current (Active) workbook name
I need that more often than I thought It is basically extract the full workbook name that we are in, with no folders, and with no extension =MID(CELL(“filename”,A1),SEARCH(“[“,CELL(“filename”,A1))+1,SEARCH(“]”,CELL(“filename”,A1))-SEARCH(“[“,CELL(“filename”,A1))-6) So, here it is…. And if we want to go 1 step further, I often have the version of the tool as part of the filename, […]
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()