How to swap text in Excel-colums เธรดต่อผู้เขียนข้อความ: Heinrich Pesch
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Heinrich Pesch 
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I have a glossar with source and target colums. Part of the target cells are empty, these I should translate. So I would like to write a formula for the column C, that looks, if the cell in column B is empty and copies the content from column A, otherwise it copies the content of cell B.
But I seem to have forgotten the syntax. I tried
=IF(A1="";A1;B1)
But that copies content of column A to all cells.
Help!
Regards
Heinrich
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=IF(B1="";(A1);B1)
Best regards,
Cecilia
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Heinrich Pesch
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TOPIC STARTER | Thanks, but i can't make it work | Sep 28, 2007 |
=IF(A2="";(B2);A2)
does the same as
=IF(A2="";B2;A2)
it copies the content from A though there is text in B.
More ideas?
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Hello again, Henirich,
It should say;
=IF(B1="";(A1);B1)
not
=IF(A1="";(A1);B1)
This works for me. BTW, thanks for this idea, never thought of it myself, but I will find plenty of use for it .
Best regards,
Cecilia
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Heinrich Pesch
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How stupid of me. Thanks a lot, Cecilia.
Heinrich
But how can I achieve, that excel copies also the formatting? I thouhgt I could define fontcolor red to the A-column, so I would see, which item comes from A and which from B. Then I could define the red stuff as nontranslatable.
Can it be done?
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| Not stupid ;-) | Sep 28, 2007 |
I make these kind of mistakes EVERY time I create macros, and once you spot the error you can't understand how you could have missed it...
Have a nice weekend!
Cecilia
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| Conditional Formatting | Sep 28, 2007 |
Hi again,
You could do this by using Conditional Formatting:
Select Cell C1.
Choose Format>Conditional Formatting.
Set the following condition:
cell value: Does not Equal
Then click on Cell A1.
It now says: =$A$1
Delete the two $:
So it says: =A1
Click Format and choose for example red as the color.
Click OK and OK again.
Then drag the formatting down through the column. Now ... See more Hi again,
You could do this by using Conditional Formatting:
Select Cell C1.
Choose Format>Conditional Formatting.
Set the following condition:
cell value: Does not Equal
Then click on Cell A1.
It now says: =$A$1
Delete the two $:
So it says: =A1
Click Format and choose for example red as the color.
Click OK and OK again.
Then drag the formatting down through the column. Now all cells that are already translated will show up in red in Column C.
Best regards,
Cecilia
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Heinrich Pesch
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TOPIC STARTER | Thank your very much! | Sep 28, 2007 |
This is very useful.
Regards
Heinrich
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| Great idea, thank you both! | Sep 28, 2007 |
I have only used excel formulas for calculation so far.
This is just great! It will be very helpful.
Heinrich and Cecilia, thanks for asking and answering!
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