Selective Column deletion

[mattrane]

Hi,
I'm not real familiar with writing code in Excel, so my question is
probably fairly simple.

I'm working with Census data and before importing it into SAS I want to
clean it up a bit in Excel. The problem is that the Census summary
tables give me three columns of information (an upper, lower, and
estimate), when I only need one (estimate). The matrices I work with a
usually in the 52x2000 range, so it gets very tedious to delete them by
hand. Can excel handle a 'delete if' or 'select if, then delete' type
of command.
something like:
delete if (column(contains(upper OR lower));

Thanks for any help.

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Matthew Hall
Population Research Institute
The Pennsylvania State University

 

[Dave Peterson]

Select the column with that description stuff.

Data|Filter|Autofilter
Now use the arrow to apply a custom filter.
Choose Custom
Does not equal Estimate

Select the visible rows and
edit|delete

 

[Dave Peterson]

And then use
Data|filter|autofilter
to remove the filter (and see all the data)

 

[mattrane]

Thanks Dave,

The thing is the column 'description' (upper lower estimate) is a
cell. For example. I have these three columns:
Northern Europe, United Kingdom (Estimate); Northern Europe, United
Kingdom (Lower); Northern Europe, United Kingdom (Upper); in cells, say
A1, A2, A3. I want to delete A2 and A3 and all of the information below
them (the values for particular states).

Thanks

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't understand the layout of your data.

You may want to post a typical example and what should happen to that example.

(Just plain text--please don't attach a workbook.)