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Old 08-17-2009, 09:55 AM
themangoagent themangoagent is offline IF statement that adds text to a cell Windows XP IF statement that adds text to a cell Office 2003
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So I am using web query to import data from a web source. These are all either doctors, or facilities. The doctors's names are all imported with last name then first name, ex: SMITH, JOHN. Facilities are not the problem. I want to create an IF statement that will recognize the comma between the last and first name, and then if there is one (because there's only a comma in the doctors's names, not the facilities) to add DR. before the name.
I am then mail merging this to a letter. So maybe it (the word "DR." )doesn't necessarily need to be in the same cell as the doctors's name.

Thanks for checking this out!



Maybe something like this: =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*dog*",A1)),"dog","")

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Old 08-19-2009, 09:22 PM
MikeWM MikeWM is offline IF statement that adds text to a cell Windows XP IF statement that adds text to a cell Office 2003
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Try this.

=IF(FIND(",",A1)>1,"Dr. " & LEFT(A1,((FIND(",",A1)-1))))

It goes a step further and extracts the entire surname.

Otherwise, just use the find the command to identify the comma. Find returns the number of characters up to the search term (,). So if the result is > 0 then, you have found a doctor.

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Old 08-24-2009, 08:41 AM
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Thanks MikeWM! It's working quite well, except that Excel really doesn't like it if there isn't a comma. It returns an error: #VALUE!
Which is fine, but is there any way for it to copy the cell to the new column if there isn't any comma?
Example: Smith, John copies to the column as Dr. Smith, while Disneyland returns the error. Anyway to just copy Disneyland straight to the cell if there's no comma in the cell?
Thanks for your help!
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Old 08-24-2009, 04:05 PM
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Sure, just insert an error check:

=IF(ISERR(FIND(",",A1)),A1,"Dr. "&LEFT(A1,((FIND(",",A1)-1))))


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Old 08-26-2009, 08:07 AM
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Thanks a lot for your help, MikeWM!
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