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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

Worksheet name, dynamically using formula

Posted on April 3, 2018 By ANmar
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 …

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CELL, MID, SEARCH

Text-to-Columns, dynamically using formulas

Posted on April 3, 2018 By ANmar
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

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IFERROR, Len, MID, SEARCH

Extract current (Active) workbook name

Posted on September 14, 2015 By ANmar
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,…

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CELL, Formulas - combined functions, Information, Lookup and References, MID, SEARCH, 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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Formulas - combined functions, LEFT, Lookup and References, MID, OFFSET, ROW, SEARCH, Standard functions, Texts and Strings

CamelCase to Camel Case

Posted on January 26, 2012 By ANmar No Comments on CamelCase to Camel Case
CamelCase to Camel Case

Here is a good practice for combining functions to get a full smartsheet It basically add a space before any capital letter in a text, helpful when you have strings without spaces and want to convert them. It is all in formulas. Put additional spaces before any upper case letter. made specially for custom request….

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CHAR, FIND, Formulas - combined functions, IF, Information, ISERROR, Logical, Math and Trig, MID, SMALL, Standard functions, Texts and Strings, TRIM

MID + SEARCH to convert cell to rows

Posted on January 23, 2012 By ANmar No Comments on MID + SEARCH to convert cell to rows
MID + SEARCH to convert cell to rows

I have been there and done that more than once before This time I had a really large cell, more than 3k characters need to be converted into rows, and here is how you can do it. This one uses MID with SEARCH to do that Use one column to get the character number of…

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MID, SEARCH, Standard functions, STRING, Texts and Strings

Hyperlink usage and HyperlinkOf UDF

Posted on January 21, 2012 By ANmar No Comments on Hyperlink usage and HyperlinkOf UDF
Hyperlink usage and HyperlinkOf UDF

The Hyperlink function is really powerful and yet not widely used. You can create a whole navigation system with Hyperlink fx or create a custom jump to link to take user to certain area. Of course the “Jump-to” link need other functions, like Match, Indirect and Index Here is a sample of what we can do…

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CELL, Formulas - combined functions, HYPERLINK, HyperlinkOf, Information, Lookup and References, MID, Standard functions, User-Defined f(x)s = UDF

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