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

Hi Peter,

Re the one-time deal: I didn't think what was pasted back into the column
would be the derived values, I thought it would just copy the formulas.
When you say copy to clipboard, are you suggesting to select the new column
with formulas, use Ctrl-C, select the column I want to replace, then use
Ctrl-V?

Re the macro: I am seriously lacking in VBA skills. I used the code you
suggested, selected the cells in column J I wanted to modify, but got a
"Run-time error '13': Type mismatch", which is very helpful (not). Whoops,
wait, A1value needs to be defined as an Integer, and this did the trick.
Sweet! Question: Is 'c' (as in "For each c" and "c.offset") a special
representation of the selected cell? Is its definition implied by its use
in the "in Selection"?

Any advice where I can find more information on VBA programming? Preferably
free and online?

Thanks for your help!
- Dan


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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