Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Working With Tables in Excel
  • Create Scatter Chart in Excel
  • Example of COUNTIFS with variable table column in Excel
  • Reverse List in Excel
  • Subtotal function in Excel

References

  • Merge tables with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • How to get address of named range in Excel
  • How to calculate two-way lookup VLOOKUP in Excel Table
  • How to get last row in mixed data with blanks in Excel
  • Last row number in range

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation don’t exceed total
  • Excel Data validation require unique number
  • Excel Data validation must not contain
  • Excel Data validation number multiple 100
  • Excel Data validation allow uppercase only

Split dimensions into two parts in Excel Worksheet

by

If you have worksheet that contains text dimensions (i.e. “50 ft x 200 ft” etc.) you can split the into two parts with formulas that use several text functions.

Explanation

Background

A common annoyance with data is that it may be represented as text instead of numbers. This is especially common with dimensions, which may appear in one text string that includes units, for example:

50 ft x 200 ft
153 ft x 324 ft
Etc.

Worked Example:   Remove file extension from filename in Excel

In a spreadsheet, it’s a lot more convenient to have actual numbers so that you can use them in calculations as you wish.

Extracting individual dimensions from a text representation can be done with formulas that combine several text functions.

Solution

In this case, it because we have both the “ft” unit and space characters (” “) included in the dimensions, it makes sense to remove these first. That will “normalize” the dimensions and simplify the formulas that do the actual extraction.

Worked Example:   How to count specific words in a range in Excel

To remove both “ft” and ” “, we are using this formula in cell C6, which contains two nested SUBSTITUTE functions:

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(B5,"ft","")," ","")

This formula takes the original text, and first strips “ft” (in the inner ), then strips spaces with the outer SUBSTITUTE function.

The result is a dimension with just the “x” separating the two parts.

Worked Example:   How to extract last two words from text string in Excel

Now we can two relatively straightforward formulas to extract each part. To get the dimension on the left, D6 contains:

=LEFT(C5,FIND("x",C5)-1)

To get the dimension on the right, E6 contains:

=RIGHT(C5,LEN(C5)-FIND("x",C5))

Both of the formulas above extract the correct dimension by using FIND to locate the “x”. For more detail, see the related function links on this page.

Post navigation

Previous Post:

Split numbers from units of measure in Excel

Next Post:

Get first name from name with comma — Manipulating NAMES in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • OR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to return blank in place of #DIV/0! error in Excel
  • IF function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Return blank if in Excel
  • Invoice status with nested if in Excel

Date Time

  • Get first day of previous month in Excel
  • Get day name from date in Excel
  • Convert Excel time to decimal hours in Excel
  • How to determine year is a leap year in Excel
  • How to Calculate Age in Excel

Grouping

  • Group numbers with VLOOKUP in Excel
  • How to randomly assign people to groups in Excel
  • How to randomly assign data to groups in Excel
  • Group arbitrary text values in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel

General

  • How to make excel worksheets print on one page?
  • Excel Default Templates
  • Lock Cells in a Worksheet Excel
  • Excel Ribbon Quick Overview For Beginners
  • How to calculate total from percentage in Excel
© 2023 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning