[mso] Re: Excel-A Tough One

  • From: "Green" <1z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:40:12 +0100

Oops... Sorry Herbert... A function won't do it... Many apologies... I
didn't read the whole message.

I think you still have to use VBA though with a similar mechanism.    :-)

Lisa
 
 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a bit of a toughy on my hands. Can anybody tell me how 
> to split data in the following format into single lines eg.
> 
> Data is like this:
> 
> Beans 256, 376, 384-392
> Oils 384-392 
> 
> I have a very long spreadsheet like this and I need to 
> convert to the following as an example:
> 
> Beans 256
> Beans 376
> Beans 384
> Beans 385
> Beans 386
> Beans 387  etc
> 
> 
> The complication is that the data can be separated by commas, 
> hyphens and just depends on the line.
> 
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Herbert

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