Extracting data from a cell - please help

[ajw150]

Hi all,

I have a column of cells of address data. The data contains house number, street name, town and postcode. Is it possible to extract the postcode from the line easily? and place it into another cell.

Thanks

Andrew

[Richard Schollar]

Hi Andrew

It does depend to an extent on how the string is formulated (ie are the different elements separated by a delimiter such as a space or a comma) and how consistent the structure is between different records (ie is it always house number, street name, and town or may it sometimes be house number, street name, district and town?). Assuming it is fairly consistent and there is a delimiter such as a comma, then I would suggest using Data>TextToColumns and following the wizard prompts.

Does this help?

Richard

[ajw150]

Thanks, a great help. A simple but effective process. Thanks goodness for commas.

Andrew