Macro idendifying keywords

[Sandeman]

Excel gurus...

I have a spreadsheet that in Column C has descriptive data all in text form. The data might say something like "Paul is an Italian basketball player."

What I need is for a macro to recognize the word "Italian" and place the word "Italy" in Column E to the right of the data column. Then I'd like to have another macro to recognize "basketball" and place "basketball" in Column F.

However, sometimes there won't be information for Column E, in which case the data in Column F needs to move over to Column E if E is blank.

And it needs to run for the entire set of rows.

Is this possible? Many thanks in advance.

Sandeman

[Tom Ogilvy]

Sub ProcessWords()
Dim v as Variant, v1 as Variant
Dim rng as Range, cell as Range
Dim i as Long, col as long
v = Array("Italian","BasketBall")
v1 = Array("Italy","BasketBall)
set rng = Range(Cells(1,3),Cells(rows.count,3).End(xlup))
for each cell in rng
col = 4
for i = lbound(v) to ubound(v)
if Instr(1,cell.Value,v(i).vbTextCompare) then
cells(cell.row,col).Value = v1(i)
col = col + 1
end if
Next
Next
End Sub

Modify v to include all the key words and v1 to include the words you want
placed to the right if a keyword is found

Code is untested and may contain typos, but should suggest a workable approach

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Sandeman" wrote:

>
> Excel gurus...
>
> I have a spreadsheet that in Column C has descriptive data all in text
> form. The data might say something like "Paul is an Italian basketball
> player."
>
> What I need is for a macro to recognize the word "Italian" and place
> the word "Italy" in Column E to the right of the data column. Then I'd
> like to have another macro to recognize "basketball" and place
> "basketball" in Column F.
>
> However, sometimes there won't be information for Column E, in which
> case the data in Column F needs to move over to Column E if E is blank.
>
>
> And it needs to run for the entire set of rows.
>
> Is this possible? Many thanks in advance.
>
> Sandeman
>
>
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[Sandeman]

Very cool Tom. Thank you. The If, Then line is not working out and I'm not sure what's wrong with it. Any ideas?

Sub ProcessWords()
Dim v as Variant, v1 as Variant
Dim rng as Range, cell as Range
Dim i as Long, col as long
v = Array("Italian","BasketBall")
v1 = Array("Italy","BasketBall)
set rng = Range(Cells(1,3),Cells(rows.count,3).End(xlup))
for each cell in rng
col = 4
for i = lbound(v) to ubound(v)
if Instr(1,cell.Value,v(i).vbTextCompare) then
cells(cell.row,col).Value = v1(i)
col = col + 1
end if
Next
Next
End Sub

Modify v to include all the key words and v1 to include the words you want
placed to the right if a keyword is found

Code is untested and may contain typos, but should suggest a workable approach

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Sandeman" wrote:

>
> Excel gurus...
>
> I have a spreadsheet that in Column C has descriptive data all in text
> form. The data might say something like "Paul is an Italian basketball
> player."
>
> What I need is for a macro to recognize the word "Italian" and place
> the word "Italy" in Column E to the right of the data column. Then I'd
> like to have another macro to recognize "basketball" and place
> "basketball" in Column F.
>
> However, sometimes there won't be information for Column E, in which
> case the data in Column F needs to move over to Column E if E is blank.
>
>
> And it needs to run for the entire set of rows.
>
> Is this possible? Many thanks in advance.
>
> Sandeman
>
>
> --
> Sandeman
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sandeman's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=32440
> View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=522153
>
>

[Tom Ogilvy]

As I said, it my contain typos - in this case, it contained two. Here is a
tested version (based on your description).

Sub ProcessWords()
Dim v As Variant, v1 As Variant
Dim rng As Range, cell As Range
Dim i As Long, col As Long
v = Array("Italian", "BasketBall")
v1 = Array("Italy", "BasketBall")
Set rng = Range(Cells(1, 3), _
Cells(Rows.Count, 3).End(xlUp))
For Each cell In rng
col = 4
For i = LBound(v) To UBound(v)
If InStr(1, cell.Value, v(i), _
vbTextCompare) Then
Cells(cell.Row, col).Value = v1(i)
col = col + 1
End If
Next
Next
End Sub

"Sandeman" wrote:

>
> Very cool Tom. Thank you. The If, Then line is not working out and I'm
> not sure what's wrong with it. Any ideas?
>
>

[Sandeman]

Super. How you and others acquire this expertise, I'll never know. This is working very well. Now I've run into an unforeseen issue. If in the description I search for the word "Italian," the word Italy is placed in a cell to the right. If I also look for the word "Italy," the word Italy is then placed two cells to the right. That means "Italy" has been listed twice. Would it be possible to add code that states if "Italy" has been found once, skip the next variations of the word "Italy" and move on to the next group (e.g. basketball)? There should be come work around perhaps?

As I said, it my contain typos - in this case, it contained two. Here is a
tested version (based on your description).

Sub ProcessWords()
Dim v As Variant, v1 As Variant
Dim rng As Range, cell As Range
Dim i As Long, col As Long
v = Array("Italian", "BasketBall")
v1 = Array("Italy", "BasketBall")
Set rng = Range(Cells(1, 3), _
Cells(Rows.Count, 3).End(xlUp))
For Each cell In rng
col = 4
For i = LBound(v) To UBound(v)
If InStr(1, cell.Value, v(i), _
vbTextCompare) Then
Cells(cell.Row, col).Value = v1(i)
col = col + 1
End If
Next
Next
End Sub

"Sandeman" wrote:

>
> Very cool Tom. Thank you. The If, Then line is not working out and I'm
> not sure what's wrong with it. Any ideas?
>
>

[Sandeman]

Looks as if I need to make some changes to the macro structure. What I need the following macro to do is the following. If the macro looks at a description and identifies the word "Italian", it places the word "Italy" in a cell three columns over (column is "nation"). If it also identifies the word "basketball," it places the word "Basketball" in a cell four columns over (column is for "sport"). There are multiple identifiers I want to use, but I can set that up as long as I get the gist on how to edit the following to do this. Thanks!

Sub ProcessWords()
Dim v As Variant, v1 As Variant
Dim rng As Range, cell As Range
Dim i As Long, col As Long
v = Array("Italian", "BasketBall")
v1 = Array("Italy", "BasketBall")
Set rng = Range(Cells(1, 3), _
Cells(Rows.Count, 3).End(xlUp))
For Each cell In rng
col = 4
For i = LBound(v) To UBound(v)
If InStr(1, cell.Value, v(i), _
vbTextCompare) Then
Cells(cell.Row, col).Value = v1(i)
col = col + 1
End If
Next
Next
End Sub

[Sandeman]

I have solved the problem.