Tags: LOOKUP

Convert a text entry into its number equivalent

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Consider this simple two column table showing text entries in column A and the corresponding numbers in column.  Assume this data is in range A2:B11 (headings are in A1:B1). text Value A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5 F 6 G 7 H 8 I 9 J 0 The objective is to […]

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Remove special characters from a string

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Hi, Assume a column of names as follows: Name Mohammed Zia-Ul Haque Steven Thomas – ,-Rohit Sunil Ahir-Chowdhary.- Anuj ———– Sameer — ..,Mohit — Rajeev Nair. Monalisa . Das Vijeta … –,.Anjana. M.U..,- Please observe that there are special characters before the name, within the name and after the name.  The task is to remove […]

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Compute potential Sales of a retail outlet

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The objective is to assist a Store Manager with computing potential sales across different products and colours.  To start with let’s assume two datasets: 1. Customer-Colour dataset – a two column table which lists down the colour preference of each customer; and 2. Colour-Product-Price dataset – a three column table which lists down the multiple […]

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Extract City, State and Pin code from an address string

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For a lot of Excel users, a common problem is to extract City, State and Pin Code from an address string.  What compounds the issue is that there is no standardisation in an address string.  For e.g., one may end the address with a Pin code, while others may end it with a State and Country.  […]

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Remove abbreviations appearing before a name

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Assume there is a list of names appearing in range A2:A9.  Before these names, there are abbreviations such as Dr., Mr. Mrs. etc.  To worsen the situation, there may/may not be a space after the abbreviation.  A sample dataset may look like this: Mr.Ramakrishna Mr Ramakrishna Mr. Ramakrishna MrRamakrishna PhD.Saurav Dr (Mrs.) Indu Sharma Dr. (Mr) […]

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Perform an iterative sum of Top n values across multiple columns

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A tournament has 18 participating teams with 25 players in each team.  Each team has to play five rounds of the Tournament and not all players play all rounds.  Scores earned by each player in each round are shown in individual cells.  If a player does not play a round, that cell is left empty. The task […]

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Show granular as well as total figures on the Summary sheet

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Assume there is data for complaints received and complaints resolved for two years – 2009 and 2010 for some regions regions.  Each Region has its own worksheet.  There are three headings on each sheet – Particulars, 2009 and 2010.  While the Particulars column has the text “Complaints received” and “Complaints resolved”, the year columns have number of complaints received […]

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Sum data from a particular cell of last n sheets only

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A number is entered in cell A1 of every sheet in a multi sheet workbook.  The task is to sum numbers in cell C2 of the Summary sheet from cell A1 of last x sheets – x is the number of sheets (mentioned in cell B2 of the Summary sheet) from which numbers have to be summed […]

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Extract specific number of characters from an alphanumeric string without breaking any word

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When downloading data from an ERP into Excel, a Remarks column has entries which can be as lengthy as 300 characters per cell.  Before uploading this data into another database, entries in the Remarks column need to be split into multiple cells of upto 50 characters per cell.  Furthermore, when splitting data into multiple cells, it should […]

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Return an exact value via the LOOKUP() function

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Assume a two column database in range A3:B6.  Headings are in A2:B2.  In range A3:A6 are numbers, say 60,30,20 and 10.  In range B3:B6 are some names, say Ashish, Sameer, Gautam and Sanjay. In cell A7, enter any name, say Sameer.  The task is to extract the corresponding number from the range (A3:B6) into cell B7.  […]

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