Excel assign sequence number to duplicate records

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to assign sequence number to duplicate records using COUNTIF Function. Excel assign sequence number to duplicate records Suppose you have two sales transactions on the same date but you don't have any transaction timestamp (but records are in ascending order of time), you may want to add a number to each transaction so that you can easily identify and filter the first transaction, 2nd transaction, etc. Assigning sequence number can also facilitate to use SQL to...

Excel extract text in brackets

Posted on December 25, 2016December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to extract text in brackets or in defined text in Excel spreadsheet and VBA. Extract text in brackets in Excel spreadsheet In the previous post, I demonstrated how to remove text in brackets or in any defined text, in this post I will explain how to extract the text in brackets or in any defined text. In Excel spreadsheet, you can extract any substring using Mid Function. To recap the syntax of Mid Function MID( text, start_position, number_of_characte...

Access Excel capitalize first letter in a sentence

Posted on December 19, 2016December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This Access Excel tutorial explains how to capitalize first letter in a sentence using VBA custom Function. Capitalize first letter in a sentence In Excel spreadsheet, there is a Function called Proper, which converts all the first letter of each word to capital letter. Example Using Proper Function he is a boy. she is a girl. He Is A Boy. She Is A Girl. he is a boy. his name is John. mary is a girl. He Is A Boy. His Name Is John. Mary Is A Girl. Mr. smith is happy ...

Access Excel extract file name from file path

Posted on December 7, 2015December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to extract file name from file path using VBA and without VBA. Excel Access VBA extract percentage from text Access Excel VBA extract number from text or extract alphabet Excel Extract Time from Date Time or Extract Date Excel extract file name from file path Assume that you have a file path such as C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\a.jpg If you want to extract file name a.jpg from the path in Excel, first we need to think about how to de...

Excel Access VBA extract percentage from text

Posted on September 1, 2015December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This Excel / Access tutorial explains how to extract percentage from text. Access Excel VBA extract number from text or extract alphabet Excel Extract Time from Date Time or Extract Date Access Excel extract file name from file path Excel Access VBA extract percentage from text Recently I got a report that contains percentage but it is mixed with other text. For example, Salary increased by 10% We are unable to do any calculation unless we extract the 10% or 10 out from the text. ...

Access Excel remove line break and carriage return

Posted on August 22, 2015December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This Access / Excel tutorial explains how to remove carriage return and remove line break in a text. You may also want to read: Excel VBA separate line break data into different rows Access Excel remove carriage return and remove line break Recently our company uploaded employee data in spreadsheet data to the new system. One user reported that her home address shows some special code (something like hex code) that is supposed to be a space. Since the code appears after a comma, I suspec...

Access Excel add leading zero

Posted on May 5, 2015December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This Access / Excel tutorial explains how to add leading zero using Text Function or using custom Function to pad other text in suffix or prefix. Excel add leading zero (non-VBA) Number in Excel can come in two forms - Text or Number. For number in Number format, you may not add zero in prefix For number in Text format, you can add a zero in prefix In order to convert a Number to Text, add a ' in the prefix. For example, instead of typing 00123, type '00123 Sometimes you receive ...

Access Excel custom split Function to delimit text

Posted on February 22, 2015December 26, 2016 by Wyman W

This tutorial shows how to create a custom Access Excel VBA custom Function to delimit text with the help of VBA "Split" Function instead of "Text to Columns". Delimit text in Excel (non-VBA) In Excel worksheet, there is a function called "Text to Columns" (Data > Text to Columns) to separate a text by delimiter. For example, Cell A1 contains "a,b,c" and after split by comma, A1 contains "a", B1 contains "b" and C1 contains "c". An alternative way to do that is using Left Function with...