Pulling a word from text out of a cell

[Ravens Fan]

I don't know if this can be done? But, here it goes.

I have a cell that has a line of text in it. I need to be able to search the
text string and look for certain words and copy the word into another cell.

Example:

Cell "R2": runs 1/11, raw material issue

I need to look at that cell and find the words raw material and copy "raw
material" into another cell.

I'll also be looking for other words in the cells to differientate reasoning
for issues.

Words like:

Pail issue, Art Work, etc.

I don't nessarily need to copy the words if that's an issue. I could code
the different words with numbers. So if I'm looking for the words "raw
material", I could code it as equal to "1". If this makes it easier.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Pete_UK]

So, you have the following in cell R2:

runs 1/11, raw material issue

and you want the words "raw material" to appear in , say, S2 because
they are present in R2 ?? If so, try this in S2:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("raw material",R2)),"raw material","")

Not sure about the rest of your question, but hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

You don't need to extract it, just look if it there

=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("raw material",R2)),"","Raw material")

Mike

 

[Ravens Fan]

Yes it worked great.

The second part is:

"R2" could also say:

runs 1/11, raw material issue

or

Art Work not delivered.


So, what I'm trying to do is look for the different scenerios and capturing
words.

In this example, R2 could say anyone of the three examples. So, I am looking
in the cell and searching for different scenerios, "raw material", "pail
issue" or "Art Work" and copy what it finds into "S2"

Pail issue, delivery 1/31

or

 

[Pete_UK]

Glad it worked for you.

If you want to look for three items of text, then you can just combine
three IFs as follows:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("raw material",R2)),"raw
material",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("pail issue",R2)),"pail
issue",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("art work",R2)),"art work","")))

If you have more than 3 items then this approach will become more
unwieldly, so you would probably be better using MATCH.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Ravens Fan]

Yea, I do have a lot of different scenarios with words. There is no easy way
around it either.

I thought there might be a way to have a list of words and if it finds any
of them, it would return that particular word.

I'm looking at the "match" command in the help section and it's not a lot of
help.

 

[Pete_UK]

Well, post the list of words you are interested in here, then I can
get some idea of the size of the problem. Maybe a SUMIF array formula
might be better.

Pete

 

[Ravens Fan]

Here is the list I have so far. There will probably be a few more, which I
could add later. Also, I shortened some of the word searches.

raw
make to order
line priority
pail
label
sales ahead
scc
deploy

Thanks again for your help. This is saving me a ton of time.

 

[Pete_UK]

So, imagine that you put this list somewhere on the sheet, eg in
Z1:Z8. Then in S2 try this array* formula:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(Z1:Z8,R2)),Z1:Z8,"")

*As this is an array formula, then once you have typed it in, or
subsequently edit it, you must commit it using CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER (CSE)
rather than the usual ENTER. If you do this correctly, then Excel will
wrap curly braces { } around the formula when viewed in the formula
bar - you must not type these yourself.

I'm not exactly certain that it will work - give examples of what
happens if it does not.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Ravens Fan]

I setup the list in column "Z". in column "V" I put the array:

{if(isnumber(search($z$2:$z$9,r2)),$z$1:$z$9,"")}

The list is in this order:

raw
make to order
line priority
pail
label
sales ahead
scc
deploy

It returns a 0 when it sees the word raw, but, does nothing when any of the
other words show up (the cell is blank).

 

[Pete_UK]

I did say that I didn't think it would work !! It's a bit late here,
but I'll have another look at it tomorrow.

Pete

 

[Ron Rosenfeld]

I don't know if this can be done? But, here it goes.

I have a cell that has a line of text in it. I need to be able to search the
text string and look for certain words and copy the word into another cell.

Example:

Cell "R2": runs 1/11, raw material issue

I need to look at that cell and find the words raw material and copy "raw
material" into another cell.

I'll also be looking for other words in the cells to differientate reasoning
for issues.

Words like:

Pail issue, Art Work, etc.

I don't nessarily need to copy the words if that's an issue. I could code
the different words with numbers. So if I'm looking for the words "raw
material", I could code it as equal to "1". If this makes it easier.

Thanks in advance.

Here's one method that will return the desired phrase if it is present in the
source text.

This assumes the source text is less than 256 characters long. If it is
longer, we can certainly rewrite the routine to handle it.

Download and install Longre's free (and easily distributable by embedding in
the workbook) morefunc.xll add-in from:

http://xcell05.free.fr/morefunc/english/index.htm

Set up your list of Phrases to search for in a column (which I NAME'd Phrase).

Then use this formula (with your test sentence in A1):

=REGEX.MID(A1,MCONCAT(Phrases,"|"),,FALSE)
--ron