Hi!
I have a large database in excel that among other things contain a lot of names (both fornames, additional names, surnames, nick names and patronymics). I want to see how many people have a certain name, for example i want to know how many have the name Per, but not Casper or Persson. To make things more complicated there are multiple names in each cell.
Is it possible to make a search like this?
/Karl-Oskar
Use wildcards, like "?" or "*" and "space" in your search criteria, and some other things: char(32) or (char(160). I don't have your data so it's only assumption.
i.e. "space"Per"space"
regards
sandy
Karl, welcome to the forum
To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.
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Ford
Thank you for your help! I´ve tried to use space, but the problem is that the names can be both in the beginning, in the middle or at the end. I´ve attached just the names (they are coming from a database with genealogical research, and are names of people living in the 18-19th century. I´m trying to get good statistics about the different names and how often they are used.
Thanks again for your help!
/Karl-Oskar
1. in B2 =CLEAN(TRIM(A2)) and copy down
2. in C2 = IF($C$1=0,0, (LEN(B2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B2,$C$1,"")))/LEN($C$1)) with Ctrl+Shift+Enter and copy down (or double click on right down corner of selected cell C2)
where C1 is yours criteria field, i.e.: spacePERspace (this formula is case sensitive)
3. in D1 =COUNTIF(C2:C100138,"1") range can be different
you can use filter also
hope it will help
btw, you should reorganize your data by removing non-data rows, formats, etc...
here is a link to file not from forum because it is too big
Namn2
regards
sandy
Last edited by sandy666; 03-18-2015 at 07:03 PM.
Can you show some samples of your expected outcome?
Thanks a lot for your help! I will test your formula now in the weekend Sandy and see if I can get the hang of it. The full database contains more fields as cause of death, age, occupation and a lot more. In the long term I am going to make statistics with all this data!
/Karl-Oskar
I used B2 cell but you can change it to what you want (i.e. with Data Validation support). But like I said before you need to "clean" your database from formats, non-printable characters, empty rows, etc.... Will be faster and easier
regards
sandy
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