Re: Excel 2003 question: How to update data in a column conditionally

Hi Dan,

If this is a one time deal, you can temporarily insert a new column and paste this formula into the rows of that column:

=IF(AND(ISERROR(SEARCH(D1,"SRC3 UUMC PN FCR1")),A1=22),LEFT(J1,2) & "78" & MID(J1,5,6),J1)

Then select those values and Copy them to the clipboard, and Paste just the values back to column J, and finally, delete the temporary column.

Or you could write a macro, something like:

Sub FixColJ()

' Conditionally fix values in column J

Dim A1value As String
Dim D1value As String

For Each c In Selection
A1value = c.Offset(0, -9)
D1value = c.Offset(0, -6)
If InStr(D1value, "SRC3 UUMC PN FCR1") = 0 And A1value = 22 Then
c.Value = Left(c.Value, 2) & "78" & Mid(c.Value, 5, 6)
End If
Next
MsgBox "J1 column modified"

End Sub

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On 11/16/2010 7:36 AM, Dan wrote:

I have a spreadsheet with approx. 500 rows of data. I need to update a
substring in a column conditioned by values in that column and in another
column. If it were SQL, I might use:

Update "worksheet"
set J1 = substr(J1, 1, 2) + '78' + substr(J1, 5, 6)
where D1 not in ('SRC3', 'UUMC', 'PN', 'FCR1')
and A1 = 22

where J1, D1,& A1 are individual cells in the same row (#1); and I need
this repeated for all 500 rows of data. Essentially, I need to replace the
3rd& 4th character in J1 with '78' when certain conditions are met.

I have no idea how to accomplish this in Excel. I'm guessing a macro is
involved, but my knowledge of them is limited.

Any help or even links to online pointers would be greatly appreciated. I
googled a bunch of terms, but came up with a lot of external data import,
ODBC type of stuff.

- Dan