string extracting

This is an additional question from post. http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/955263-extract-first-numerical-value-left-right-defined-criteria-string-text.html# I am curious on how to get the program to return additional columns if there is another instance of criteria <tbody> A...

I have been stuck on this all night and am looking for some suggestions. I essentially need to be able to find a character to the left of a string somewhere in the middle of a large text string so I can return a number value. The data is imported from an external database so I cannot change the...

I only dip into Excel on an occasional basis and have had little experience of string handling. There are some very complicated functions out there! I need a formula to extract leading numbers from a text string into a new cell. There could be a variable number of leading numbers. Generally...

I have a few hundred URLs that include campaign ID strings within them. I need a way to separate out the specific IDs from each URL. All of the campaign IDs are preceded by "?cid=" and they all follow a pattern of having seven sets of characters, each separated by a dash (e.g...

I am using the following SELECT statement to remove unwanted characters from a field. However, if the field is blank, a #Error is populated. Can anyone help me with a workaround for this? SELECT MID(table.column,Instr(table.column,"badtext")+3,LEN(table.column)-Instr(table.column,"badtext")) AS...

I have thousands of address fields that look like this: <!--StartFragment--> <colgroup><col width="567"> </colgroup><tbody> 100 Broadway, Suite 1101 New York, NY?10005 United States Sector 30, NH-8 Gurgaon, Haryana, ?122002 61 Broadway 17th floor New York, NY?10006 United States...

I am trying to leverage code written by programmer that is far beyond my own ability. The objective of this routine is to determine whether a balance exists in two variable combination(Fund and SRC). The fund and source is determined from a loop on wksProcessData. wksprocessdata example...

Hello All, In Excel VBA, I am trying to create a single macro that will A) search for a string (let's say "Bay") within an entire worksheet B) return all results of the search containing the string in a list ("Bay st", "Bay Av", "Bayview", etc.) C) allow the user to select one entry...

I have a string that looks something like this: strVar = "string1;string2;string3;string4" but sometimes strVar = "string1;string2" The variable, strVar, can have various number of strings, but always delimited by semicolon. I need to create a loop to read each string1, string2...

I'm using Google PPC to promote some live training events. I have a database full of upcoming event titles. I need to build dynamic ads using these title values as well as some other parameters. Google gives you 2 description fields to populate both with a character limit of 35 each. Many of...

Hi all, I have what I think is a simple question but can't quite get it. I have the following table and 700+ rows, what I'm looking to do is either by macro or formula find a way to remove all the chars ACDRUVQ from col E and have remaining char(s) put into col F. I have tried a combo of =MID...

Hi: How can i leave only the coordinates and supress the text from the string next string: Command: ID Specify point: X = 5068.7648 Y = 224.3896 Z = -4063.3161 When i copy this from the AutoCad, it copies it the whole text only in the first cell (A1 for example) This is for a large...

I am a VBA novice and I would greatly appreciate some help please as this is driving me mad<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I have a macro (below FIRSTSUB) which works okay. What it does is identify if a cell in Col 1 contains...

I have a range of cells that contains data in the form on strings. I need to extract a part of this string and paste it (to the empty cell on the right). Range "AV" contains the cells with strings I need to extract the data between "0" OR "0:" and till the end of the string in the cell OR till...