Excel to create codes using the 321 system

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Mirsten Choiple

I want to use Excel to create codes using the 321 system.

B1 contains a book title. (eg French Lieutenant's Woman, The).

A1 to have the first three letters of the first word, the first two letters
of the second word and the first letter of the third word. (eg FreLiW).



If somone could help me find a formula that will do this, I'd be very
grateful indeed.



DL
 
One way:

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),3) & MID(Trim(A1), FIND(" ",TRIM(A1))+1,2) &
MID(TRIM(A1), FIND("^", SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ", "^", 2))+1,1)

Note there's no error checking - if the cell contains less than three
words, it will return an error.
 
Many thanks for your help.

In the case of a title with only two words (eg Madam Bovary).

The desired result would be (eg MadBo).

Is that a possibility?

DL
 
One way:

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),3)&IF(ISERR(FIND(" ",TRIM(A1))), "",
MID(TRIM(A1),FIND(" ", TRIM(A1))+1,2) &
IF((LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))>1, MID(TRIM(A1),
FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ","^",2))+1,1),""))
 
Ten thousand thanks; it works beautifully.

DL



JE McGimpsey said:
One way:

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),3)&IF(ISERR(FIND(" ",TRIM(A1))), "",
MID(TRIM(A1),FIND(" ", TRIM(A1))+1,2) &
IF((LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))>1, MID(TRIM(A1),
FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ","^",2))+1,1),""))
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JE McGimpsey wrote...
One way:

=LEFT(TRIM(A1),3)&IF(ISERR(FIND(" ",TRIM(A1))), "",
MID(TRIM(A1),FIND(" ", TRIM(A1))+1,2) &
IF((LEN(TRIM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","")))>1, MID(TRIM(A1),
FIND("^",SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ","^",2))+1,1),""))
Click to expand...
....

And another (a little redundancy goes a long way, or should that be a
short way),

=TRIM(LEFT(TRIM(A1),3)&MID(TRIM(A1),FIND(" ",TRIM(A1)&" ")+1,2)
&MID(TRIM(A1),FIND(" ",SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(A1)," ","",1)&" ")+2,1))
 

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