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Jbisca
Aug 19, 2020Copper Contributor
Sum product help
Hello, I have a column of data containing numbers. Some cells contain multiple numbers separated by commas. Example: 1 2,3,4 11,4,6,8 My goal was to find the frequency that the number one is...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Aug 19, 2020Platinum Contributor
Jbisca Well, the LEFT function takes the first character if no number of characters is specified. when you do specify a number (e.g. 1 or 2 or 3) it takes either the first, the first two or the first three characters. It can not take the first for one cell and, for instance the first three in another.
If your Excel version supports the SEQUENCE function, perhaps the attached solution offers an acceptable work-around.