Comments on: Counting Characters

By: Ian handley

Ian handley — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:38:00 +0000

Thanks for that Dick I think that’ll work because the software this spreadsheet is uploaded to forces the font to the appropriate size it’s just that 30 characters is the limit. Thanks again Ian

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:55:00 +0000

Ian: Code won't run while you're editing a cell, so I don't think there's any way to do this.

You could set your font to a monospace font, like Courier, and set your column width appropriately to tell you when you're getting close.

By: Ian handley

Ian handley — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Hi I have to enter text into a column of cells in an excel sheet but up to a maximum of 30 characters in each cell, is there any way to get a live countdown of the characters used or left to use?? I can limit the number of characters using validation but dont know if I’ve over texted until I hit return or count every character as I’m typing and I have thousands to do!!! Ian

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:02:00 +0000

in excel, the “SEARCH” function is *not* case sensitive, while the “FIND” function is.

By: Peroxe

Peroxe — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:22:00 +0000

Thanks for hints on “To count only lower case ‘s’”. I would highly appreciate to have excel formula for “To count both lower case ‘s’ and upper case ‘S’.

By: Stac

Stac — Fri, 21 May 2004 15:23:00 +0000

Kevin--
I sent you a email direct. I had a question that I didn't want the world to see.

Just a heads up.

Stac

By: Kevin DeWhitt

Kevin DeWhitt — Fri, 21 May 2004 06:18:00 +0000

I am familiar with UPS, having used their software for about 1 year to manage our shipping. Of course, anyone who knows the UPS “secret” (characters 3 – can harvest your UPS account number and perform all sorts of havoc. It never happened to us, though. It would be nice to know who is doing it – either they are completely misinformed or are petty thieves…

To get back on topic, the UPS software is based on MS Access, and can give you a direct dump to Excel of any field(s) you want. I made great use of this in my company. Look for “exporting data to excel” in the help files.

Kevin

By: stac

stac — Thu, 20 May 2004 19:54:00 +0000

Thanks, Kevin. It worked perfectly. Now if UPS will only give me the company names...

They are charging our corp accounts, but I don't know who they are. I just keep sending them to the rep, who passes them to someone else, who knows what they are doing. By the time I get the information back, it has been rinsed with a dummy filter and makes no sense...The joy of UPS. Thanks for the rant.

stac

By: Kevin DeWhitt

Kevin DeWhitt — Wed, 19 May 2004 22:36:00 +0000

Stac: Try using the MID function, as in =MID(cell address,3,6). This should return six characters, starting at position 3 (ignoring the first two, in other words). HTH

By: Stac

Stac — Wed, 19 May 2004 22:02:00 +0000

I have a string of numbers -- a UPS tracking number actually.

The first two numbers are meaningless, but the next six are meaningful -- they id the company making the shipment.

I've been using a left,a1,8 and then right,a2,6 to get them out. Is there an easier way?

Thanks for the help.

stac