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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 08:17 PM   #1
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Hi It will be great if anyone could help me with this!

Suppose the file name is 'AA 26 Mar 02'
In Cell A1 (say) I have text 'BB 26 Mar 02'

If I save the file with new name to 'AA 27 Mar 02' how can Cell A1(say) change to 'BB 27 Mar 02' such that whenever I change the date within the filename will automatically change the date in Cell A1.

Thanks every one!!

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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 08:31 PM   #2
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Hi,

You can try to insert the following formula into cell A1, but I am not too sure whether there are better ideas.

=MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("[",D12)+1,FIND("]",D12)-FIND("[",D12)-1)

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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 08:34 PM   #3
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Thanks Tiger.. But I am not too sure what does D12 means in your suggestion
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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 08:41 PM   #4
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oh tiger.. I try using that formula but it returns #Value!

What has gone wrong?
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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 08:50 PM   #5
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Chaju
Try this one. If you are removing more than 2 characters at the start of the filename, you will need to change the 2 at the end of the formula. You could replace the hard coded "BB" with a cell ref to give you flexibility, which I think might be what BabyTiger is referring to. This builds on BabyTigers idea.

"BB"&RIGHT(CELL("filename"),LEN(CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))-2)

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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 09:05 PM   #6
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thank.. but it has shown "BB 26 Mar 02.xls]Sheet1" instead of the intended BB 26 Mar 02


Any more advise?
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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 09:10 PM   #7
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Sorry Chaju, was testing in cell D12, that's why D12 showed up in the previous post. You can try the following, what I did was to replace D12 with Cell("filename"):

=MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("[",CELL("filename"))+1,FIND("]",CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))-1)

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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 09:12 PM   #8
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The formula I have hyst posted would show BB 26 Mar 02.xls, if you don't want to see '.xls' as well, then try the following:

=MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("[",CELL("filename"))+1,FIND("]",CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))-5)

HTH

NP RichardS, but your formula is the correct one anyway, I have missed the "BB" part, silly me.

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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 09:14 PM   #9
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Sorry, TigerBaby closer than me. Try
="BB"&MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("[",CELL("filename"))+1,FIND("]",CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))-1)
Richard

Sorry BabyTiger, messing around while you were posting

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Old Mar 26th, 2002, 10:29 PM   #10
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Thanks for both of you... but funny enough..

Tiger, Your
=MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("[",CELL("filename"))+1,FIND("]",CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))-5)

will produce AA 27 Mar 02

And RichardS, your
="BB"&MID(CELL("filename"),FIND("[",CELL("filename"))+1,FIND("]",CELL("filename"))-FIND("[",CELL("filename"))-1)

will produce BBAA 27 Mar02.xls

Sorry for the advise needed again!!

I look forward to hearing both of you soon
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