How can Excel check that a text string is even-numbered or not?

[StargateFan]

I've been searching the archives but don't even know where to begin
because I don't know what function would be used in Excel to do this.
After some time, it just occurred to me that even conditional
formatting would work. An odd number of characters (I have code to
remove punctuation and spaces that I'd run on the text string first),
would make the cell turn red and even number of characters would turn
the cell background green because I need even-numbered text strings
and this would test for that before I go further.

I know something can be done because of this one message I managed to
find:
http://groups.google.ca/group/micro...q=even-numbered&rnum=1&hl=en#b6a1f0de1cf496d2
but that's all there seems to be as Excel users are usu. concerned
with odd- and even-numbered rows rather than the length of a string of
text. tia! D

 

[StargateFan]

I've been searching the archives but don't even know where to begin
because I don't know what function would be used in Excel to do this.
After some time, it just occurred to me that even conditional
formatting would work. An odd number of characters (I have code to
remove punctuation and spaces that I'd run on the text string first),
would make the cell turn red and even number of characters would turn
the cell background green because I need even-numbered text strings
and this would test for that before I go further.

I know something can be done because of this one message I managed to
find:
http://groups.google.ca/group/micro...q=even-numbered&rnum=1&hl=en#b6a1f0de1cf496d2
but that's all there seems to be as Excel users are usu. concerned
with odd- and even-numbered rows rather than the length of a string of
text. tia! D

p.s., it wouldn't have to necessarily be conditional formatting, nor
would it have to be changing the cell background colour, btw. That
was just a thought. Anything that indicates when a text string is an
even number of characters in length would be fine.

(Also, the example in the URL above deals with a macro. Hoping I
didn't confuse the issue with that.)

Thanks! D

 

[Jim Cone]

Everything gets counted, including spaces and it requires
the Analysis TookPak be enabled in Tools | Add-ins...
=ISEVEN(LEN(B3))
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware


"StargateFan"
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On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:01:06 -0400, StargateFan

p.s., it wouldn't have to necessarily be conditional formatting, nor
would it have to be changing the cell background colour, btw. That
was just a thought. Anything that indicates when a text string is an
even number of characters in length would be fine.

(Also, the example in the URL above deals with a macro. Hoping I
didn't confuse the issue with that.)
Thanks! D

 

[StargateFan]

Everything gets counted, including spaces and it requires
the Analysis TookPak be enabled in Tools | Add-ins...
=ISEVEN(LEN(B3))

Any way to do this without an addin?? Thanks.

 

[Norman Jones]

Hi StargateFen,

Alternatively, without the ATp addin, the formula:

=MOD(LEN(A1),2)=0

will return True or False or even and odd length strings.

If you wish to use Conduitional formatting, use the above
formala for one conditiona and use the following formula
for a second condition:

=MOD(LEN(A1),2)=1 (odd)

 

[Norman Jones]

will return True or False or even and odd length strings.

Should read:

will return True or False for even and odd length strings.

 

[Jim Cone]

=MOD(LEN(B3),2)=0
--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware

"StargateFan"
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Any way to do this without an addin?? Thanks.