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    Question Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Hi All,

    I've got a small problem that i hope that someone will be able to help with.

    Here goes:

    I have the following text in a cell: CORPO POM BEANIE
    (Corpo Pom is the product name & Beanie is the product)

    I want to be able to remove the word 'BEANIE' from the cell by a formula that will look up the word BEANIE from a table of products in another tab and remove it from the cell leaving me with CORPO POM so that i can have just the product name in the cell.

    I have attacehed a sample of what im trying to do, The product list is 1000's of lines long so you can see why i would like a formula to do this

    Any questions please shout and i will try to help

    I am using Excel 2007

    Many thanks

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Hmm...?
    Your posted sample workbook appears to be empty ...

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Opps, not sure how that happend.

    Hopefully its now attached
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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Without seeing the other tabs, I'm not sure if this is all you need.

    Sounds like all you need to do is a "find and replace" on each term -with only 35 terms would be pretty simple to do w/o anything fancy.

    Just press cntrl+F,
    in the Find What box enter Beanie with a space in front of it (like " Beanie"), leave the Relace With box empty.

    Under options select Within Workbook and press Replace All.

    For that size of list that should do the trick.

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    I had thought of doing that as an option but this is only a sample as the whole list of products that needs to be removed is in the 100's and the actual products with names is a list of 1000's!!

    Thank you for your surgestion though.

    Jamie

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    How doo we know when a company name ends?
    Is it when the text colour changes to a colour other than black?

    If so try this UDF
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    You can then copy the results and Paste Special > Values if you need to.
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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Hi Marcol,

    I think ive confused matters by making parts of the text red, this was just to show which parts of the cell needed to be deleted from the orinal text and how it could be found in table that will be another tab.

    I have been using the below fro another part of my spreadsheet:

    =IFERROR(INDEX(Table,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX(NOT(ISERROR(SEARCH(Foxtype,B2))),0),0),2),"Missing from table")

    I have a string of text in cell B2 'Concept Shoe BLACK/GREEN 8' (its a stock list) and lots of other random produt names in column B, what i need to do is get the formula in C2 to look at B2 for a certain word that i have in a table (foxtable - Fox is the clothing brand and i have a list in there of the key words to search i.e Shoe, Jean, Pant, Tee, Knit, Polo ect this is on a seperate tab) and then return a word that is in the next column of that table (Table is the combination of Foxtable on another tab in colum A with what i need returned in Column B)

    And i need something similar that just takes away a bit of text and leaves everything else and that word would be looked up from a table.

    Im afraid that VBA is a bit beyond me at the moment and im only just starting to touch on the basic.

    Many thanks

    Jamie

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    =LEFT(B2,LOOKUP(9.99999999E+307,SEARCH($B$29:$B$63,B2,1))-1) this will do for most of your list. I say most, because some of the words in the Product table have a different spelling to the word requiring to be referenced from the Product name and Products table. For instance EIGHTY SIX BOARDSHORT & Boardshorts the extra "s" in the second list, will that be the same in your real data? or is that just typos from your sample?

    If it's the case there will be words spelled differently as per your sample, you need to incorporate all the possible variations of the words to be removed into the list then reference the whole list in the first part of the Search argument

    If your going to be using the word that your left with in a Vlookup or similar afterwards, then I suggest wrapping in the Trim function to remove the leading space your list has

    TRIM(IFERROR(LEFT(B2,LOOKUP(9.99999999E+307,SEARCH($B$29:$B$63,B2,1))-1),""))
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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    I see..the 35 products were just an example...you could try using this kind of macro (I've run it on your original sheet and attached the results.

    As you can see, the trick will be getting the list of words to remove

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    sorry, here is the file (attached) you can see what got left behind.

    you will have to build the list of words to remove to include all product variations...boardshort & boardshorts..etc.
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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Quote Originally Posted by scottylad2 View Post
    =LEFT(B2,LOOKUP(9.99999999E+307,SEARCH($B$29:$B$63,B2,1))-1) this will do for most of your list. I say most, because some of the words in the Product table have a different spelling to the word requiring to be referenced from the Product name and Products table. For instance EIGHTY SIX BOARDSHORT & Boardshorts the extra "s" in the second list, will that be the same in your real data? or is that just typos from your sample?

    If it's the case there will be words spelled differently as per your sample, you need to incorporate all the possible variations of the words to be removed into the list then reference the whole list in the first part of the Search argument

    If your going to be using the word that your left with in a Vlookup or similar afterwards, then I suggest wrapping in the Trim function to remove the leading space your list has

    TRIM(IFERROR(LEFT(B2,LOOKUP(9.99999999E+307,SEARCH($B$29:$B$63,B2,1))-1),""))
    That works great!!

    Yes i will have to add every possable text variation.

    Thank you

    One last thing, where do i put 'Proper' in the formula to change it to Proper?

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Quote Originally Posted by jamieray View Post
    That works great!!

    One last thing, where do i put 'Proper' in the formula to change it to Proper?
    Do you mean change the case? are you wanting Proper or UPPER Proper will give you a leading capital letter at every word, UPPER will return all the words in Upper case? is that what you mean?

    For Proper use

    =PROPER(TRIM(IFERROR(LEFT(B2,LOOKUP(9.99999999E+307,SEARCH($B$29:$B$63,B2,1))-1),"")))

    To return the entire selection as UPPER case use
    =UPPER(TRIM(IFERROR(LEFT(B2,LOOKUP(9.99999999E+307,SEARCH($B$29:$B$63,B2,1))-1),"")))
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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

    Hi,

    anyone can help me on this....

    [email protected]PYA Sddh ([email protected])
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    i have thousands of row to deal with, need to know how to delete the wording from SMTP onwards to make the content of the cell a valid email?

    Please help...Thanks

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    Re: Formula to remove part of a text from a cell by lookin at a table

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