Please help on an Excel spreadsheet for work

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Hayden Fox

Sorry to have posted this in 2 places but after my first post I realize
that this board is the better one to post on as it states on the mai
page.

Here is my problem.

In COLUMN A, there is a list of cells containing numeric & tex
information. For example:

Column A/Row 1 = 123456 Keyboards, Black
Column A/Row 2 = 1234 Mice, Black
Column A/Row 3 = 12345 Monitors, Gray

In COLUMN B, there is a repeated list of text all the way down th
column. For example:

Column B/Row 1 = Text""Text
Column B/Row 2 = Text""Text
Column B/Row 3 = Text""Text

My goal here is to take the numeric portion from each cell in Column
and place that numeric portion in between the Quotation Marks ("") i
the corresponding cell in Column B.

I tried to use the Help feature but after one hour of trying that stil
have no luck. Please help me if you can. I will pay you back someda
somehow if you do
 
Hi!

Here's a formula method that requires an additional column.

In C1 enter this formula:

=LEFT(B1,FIND("""",B1)-1)&""""&LEFT(A1,FIND("
",A1)-1)&""""&MID(B1,FIND("""""",B1)+2,255)

Copy down as needed.

Biff
 
Try this formula in Column C. Assuming all of your data follows the formats
you provided, this should work:

=MID(B1,1,FIND("""",B1,1))&MID(A1,1,FIND("
",A1,1)-1)&MID(B1,FIND("""",B1,1)+1,1024)

HTH,
Elkar
 
Depending on how you view these groups, the formula may be affected by line
wrap. I use OE and this is the case.

In the 2nd FIND function there is a space between the quotes:

.......LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1).......

Biff
 
This formula would go in column C (and if you wanted, you could copy
pastespecial values to column B.) This assumes that the cells in A always
start with the number and a space:

=LEFT(B1,FIND("""",B1)-1)& """" & LEFT(A1, FIND(" ",A1)-1) & """" &
RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-(FIND("""",B1)+1))

If the text in column B was as constant as your example implies, you could
enter the following formula in Column B and copy down:

="Text"& """" & LEFT(A1, FIND(" ",A1)-1) & """" & "Text"
 
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