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Middle name + 1st name

Posted on February 3, 2024 By ANmar
Middle name + 1st name

Get the initial (middle name) from a triple name in a cell.
C4 The cell contains the triple name separated with spaces.
=LEFT(C4,1) & "." & MID(C4, SEARCH(" ", C4, 1) + 1, 1) & "." & MID(C4, SEARCH(" ", C4, SEARCH(" ", C4, 1) + 1) + 1, 1) & "."

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Basic Math, Formulas - combined functions, LEFT, MID, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

Cuts string of list of items

Posted on August 17, 2022 By ANmar
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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Formulas - combined functions, LEFT, MID, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

Cells with additional spaces

Posted on August 4, 2022 By ANmar
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", "")

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AND, IF, LEFT, Len, Logical, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

Always get 1st name (or last)

Posted on July 23, 2022 By ANmar
Always get 1st name (or last)

Formula to get first name from 2 formats either (Lastname, First) or (Firstname Last) formats.

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Formulas - combined functions, IF, ISERROR, LEFT, Len, Logical, RIGHT, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings, TRIM

VALUE() of LEFT()

Posted on July 7, 2022 By ANmar
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.

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Formulas - combined functions, IF, IFERROR, Information, LEFT, Logical, N, Standard functions, Texts and Strings, VALUE

Get column name (columnname as A,B,C, etc) as input inside cell

Posted on April 6, 2015 By ANmar
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

4-6-2015 9-25-15 AM

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()

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ADDRESS, CHAR, COLUMN, Formulas - combined functions, LEFT, Lookup and References, ROW, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

iframe in Excel (XLiFrame)

Posted on February 19, 2012 By ANmar No Comments on iframe in Excel (XLiFrame)
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:

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ADDRESS, COLUMN, Formulas - combined functions, IF, INDIRECT, LEFT, Lookup and References, OFFSET, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

Extract Address into table

Posted on February 10, 2012 By ANmar No Comments on Extract Address into table
Extract Address into table

Convert US addresses from cells (one column with 1 line for Name, 1 line for address, one line for City, State and Zip code) into table

Now, say you have multiple addresses in column B, structured as line per cell, like screenshot above

Which is usually what you got from any list of addresses online, and you want to convert it to table.

This is exactly what one of clients had and needed, so here is the file that does that.

Basically you need to have 5 columns with formula in column G as:

=OFFSET($B$1,(ROW()-5)*4+4,0)

to extract first line (Starting from cell B5

Then in column H as:

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