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Barbie
Hello.
I have a large spreadsheet that lists many text strings in a single column.
The text strings include the name of a company, product, platform, and
language. I would like to isolate the language from the text string and
populate the cells in another column with only the name of that language. The
text string does not follow a consistent format where there are the same
number of words or where the language is always in the same position in the
sequence. There are 24 different languages that are used in the text strings,
and some of the languages are more than one word, such as "Chinese
Traditional" or "Chinese Simplified."
Using the formula =IF(SEARCH("German",D44),"German") works if the word
German is part of the text string in cell D44. However, I need to be able to
add all of the other languages into a single formula to verify line by line
what language is in the text string.
When I try to add other languages to the formula, such as
=IF(SEARCH("German",D44),"German"),IF(SEARCH("Danish",D44),"Danish"), the
result is #VALUE!, which is not what I want.
Can this be accomplished through a formula, and if so, how? Would it work
better to set this up as a macro? If so, any guidance on how to do that would
be much appreciated.
Thank you!
I have a large spreadsheet that lists many text strings in a single column.
The text strings include the name of a company, product, platform, and
language. I would like to isolate the language from the text string and
populate the cells in another column with only the name of that language. The
text string does not follow a consistent format where there are the same
number of words or where the language is always in the same position in the
sequence. There are 24 different languages that are used in the text strings,
and some of the languages are more than one word, such as "Chinese
Traditional" or "Chinese Simplified."
Using the formula =IF(SEARCH("German",D44),"German") works if the word
German is part of the text string in cell D44. However, I need to be able to
add all of the other languages into a single formula to verify line by line
what language is in the text string.
When I try to add other languages to the formula, such as
=IF(SEARCH("German",D44),"German"),IF(SEARCH("Danish",D44),"Danish"), the
result is #VALUE!, which is not what I want.
Can this be accomplished through a formula, and if so, how? Would it work
better to set this up as a macro? If so, any guidance on how to do that would
be much appreciated.
Thank you!