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Subject: Questions about Excel
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: jake8008-ga
List Price: $15.00
Posted: 21 Sep 2004 16:48 PDT
Expires: 21 Oct 2004 16:48 PDT
Question ID: 404414
I would like to know:

1 - How do you delete cells with dupicate content throughout an entire worksheet

2 - How do I delete cells that don't have certain criteria

Ex. I want to delete all cells that don't have the word "shoes". Or,
that do have the word shoes

3 - How do I filter all cells with certain criteria out from the rest.

Ex. I want to move all cells that have the word "trees" together and
separate from the rest of the cells - like at the top or bottom or to
another column.
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Subject: Re: Questions about Excel
From: dreamboat-ga on 22 Sep 2004 00:06 PDT
 
All of these questions would require custom VBA programming code. Is
that what you are looking for?
Subject: Re: Questions about Excel
From: dreamboat-ga on 22 Sep 2004 00:09 PDT
 
Complete instructions on how to delete duplicates in ONE column are here:
http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=135

If you have any VBA experience, perhaps you can edit that code to suit
your needs. ;)
Subject: Re: Questions about Excel
From: gareththewormevans-ga on 22 Sep 2004 02:57 PDT
 
If it's just for viewing purposes an 'Auto filter' will suffice for
some of your needs.

>Data >Filter >Auto Filter

Once you have the filter in place you can use the custom filter to
view words that don't contain a certain phrase (shoes), then select
them and delete!
Subject: Re: Questions about Excel
From: hummer-ga on 23 Sep 2004 07:50 PDT
 
Hi  jake8008,

1 - How do you delete cells with dupicate content throughout an entire worksheet

Ctrl + H (Replace)
Find What?:  Type whatever it is you want to delete
Replace With?: leave blank
By Rows or Columns (doesn't matter)
Replace All

2 - How do I delete cells that don't have certain criteria

Ex. I want to delete all cells that have the word shoes

Ctrl + H (Replace)
Find What?:  Shoes
Replace With?: leave blank
By Rows or Columns (doesn't matter)
Replace All

Hope this helps,
hummer
Subject: Re: Questions about Excel
From: interhubact-ga on 01 Oct 2004 17:54 PDT
 
Do it with regular e expression.

A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text
string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular
expressions as wildcards on steroids. You are probably familiar with
wildcard notations such as *.txt to find all text files in a file
manager. The regex equivalent is .*\.txt .

But you can do much more with regular expressions. In a text editor
like EditPad Pro or a specialized text processing tool like PowerGREP,
you could use the regular expression
\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9._%-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b  to search for an email
address. Any email address, to be exact.

Regards

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