Calculate differences between text cells?

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Calculate differences between text cells?

05-18-2012, 03:39 PM

Colin Legg Colin Legg is offline

Windows 7 32bit Calculate differences between text cells?

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Hi,

If they're always 6 characters long then the usual, native formula approach can be simplified to this:

Code:

=SUM(--(MID(A3,{1,2,3,4,5,6},1)=MID(A2,{1,2,3,4,5,6},1)))

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