I am working with a large spreadsheet that is a price listing, containing 4 columns. Part number, description, list price, and net price. The description column has roughly 3000 descriptions with the letters NLA (meaning no longer available) I need to filter these out or at least sort them to the top or bottom so I can delete them. The letters are typically at the end of the description and the descriptions are of various lengths. Any ideas? Thank you.
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2012-04-19 10:47Sorting for specific letters
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2012-04-19 11:13WW,
One way would be to add a 5th column with the formula =Right(B1,3)
Copy it down then Sort on it and you'll have all the NLAs together and they can be deleted.
Note: This assumes none of the regular descriptions end in NLA!
This could also be done with VBA code. I wrote something similar the other day for the Lounge but I'm currently working on my laptop as I'm imaging my desktop so I don't have access to the file right now.
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2012-04-19 13:36
Thank You
That is great thank you very much it worked perfectly.
