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How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

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    Post How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell and substitute the word from another cell.
    example:

    A1 > apple
    A2 > banana
    A3 > carrot
    .
    .
    A100 > grape

    B1 > I ate food this morning (using ONLY cell B1 as source of sentence)

    **this is the OUTPUT after replacing word "food"
    C1 > I ate apple this morning
    C2 > I ate banana this morning
    C3 > I ate carrot this morning
    .
    .
    C100 > I ate grape this morning
    Last edited by rionoah; 09-11-2012 at 08:03 AM. Reason: missing statement

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    replace "food" with value from cell A

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    Hi,

    Try
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    Then of course just drag the formula down as far as it needs to go.

    Hope this helps,

    Danny
    Last edited by DannyJ; 09-11-2012 at 08:18 AM. Reason: Added more detail to the post

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    Yes...DannyJ is abslutely right.
    However in case if you want to use the formula only then below might help

    =SUBSTITUTE($B$1,"food",$A1)

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    Thanks Nested,

    Your way would probably work smoother overall. Just to make it clearer for rionoah, B1 has I ate food this morning and C1 is the word you want to substitute in. I know it's obvious, you can never make something too easy!

    Regards

    Danny

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    Thank you very much Danny for your help.

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    No worries.

    I would suggest using Nested's way of doing it though as it is much simpler. If you want an example of how to do it that way I will be happy to knock one up.

    If your question is answered please make to sure to mark the topic solved.

    Thanks

    Danny

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    Re: How can I replace a word from a sentence in a cell & substitute word from another cell

    Thanyou for your help.

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