Showing posts with label Cloud Computing post by Christopher Neu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cloud Computing post by Christopher Neu. Show all posts

Sunday, September 7, 2014

yogi_Split A Cell By Multiple Critria

                      Google Spreadsheet   Post  #1753
Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E.      ANAND Enterprises LLC -- Rochester Hills MI     www.energyefficientbuild.com.   Sep-07-2014
post by Christopher Neu:
(https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/docs/Meeting$20Tracker/docs/RZ58ASj7mYU)
Split a cell by multiple criteria
I am trying to make a meeting tracker using a Google form for someone.  The fields will include who was in attendance and meeting notes.  The meetings will have a varying number of attendees.  To simply the input I am telling the person to input the attendees by "FirstName LastName (Company Name), FirstName2 LastName2 (Company Name 2)" in succession in one field.  I know how to perform a split by one delimiter (in this case the comma) but m wondering how to be able to separate the values into three columns so that each row has:

     A                   B                  C                   D                  E
1   Meeting#      MeetNotes    FirstName     LastName    CompanyName
2                                             FirstName2   LastName2  CompanyName2


The meeting# field will be done from a dropdown of the meetings and the MeetNotes will be populated from that selection via index(match()).  I have no doubt I can sort out matching up the attendees correctly as well but I just cant get the attendees to properly split as needed.  Any help would be fantastic.  

Thank you in advance,
Chris

Here is a link to the test sheet I am working with:

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