I have a spreadsheet with many names, I need to perform google search for some of them .
Is there a function that takes a keyword and converts it to a hyperlink representing the google search of the same keyword so that if i click it it will take me to the results directly ?
You can use the concat function.
Demo
The formula is:
=CONCAT("http://google.com/search?q=",A1)
You can copy that to the formula bar.
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I want the genres associated with a list of movies in Google Sheets. I am attempting to pull this info via the importxml formula with the OMDB API. However I keep getting an error.
Here is a sample sheet for reference.
I have a key for the API but that is not included in here. The error still appears to show even with the key included.
Any help with this formula or process would be much appreciated.
Or if there is a Google Apps Script that can pull this off I'd love to be pointed in that direction.
Solution:
Based on the API documentation you would need to replace spaces in the title name with +, so your formula would be like this:
=IMPORTXML("http://omdbapi.com?apikey=MYKEY&t="&SUBSTITUTE(A2," ","+")&"&r=xml","root/movie/#genre","en_US")
Of course replace MYKEY with your API key, but the other parts of the request look like this:
Reference:
SUBSTITUTE
This is your current formula:
=IMPORTXML("http://omdbapi.com?apikey=MYKEY&t="(A3)"&r=xml","root/movie/#genre");
Try using this instead:
=IMPORTXML("http://omdbapi.com?apikey=MYKEY&t=(A3)&r=xml","root/movie/#genre","en_US")
I think this has something to do with concatenation of the formula string.
I was hoping you guys could help me figure something out. I am trying to get excel to highlight every other row that contains any information in column A
so it would look like this:
I haven't been able to make any proper headway into this but I was hoping you guys might be able to give me some basic direction.
You can do this without VBA, just use conditional formatting.
Mark the Range, go to Conditional formatting, add a new rule with rule type "Use a formula to determine which cells to format" and enter
=AND($A1<>"",MOD(ROW(),2)=1)
(depending on the regional setting, you might have to exchange the "," with ";" - same syntax as a regular formula)
Then, click the "Format" button and select a fill color.
Convert a range into a table in Excel:
You can make your range of data into a table (including auto-formatting):
Select (highlight) the cells (including the heading if there is one).
Hit Ctrl+T.
Hit Enter.
There are several ways you can then customize your table, such as the options on the ribbon.
More Information:
Office.com : Create or delete an Excel table
Office.com : Overview of Excel tables
Several other tutorials and examples on Google Search.
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I would like to know how to split something like }{ )( ++ ** into 2 different cells in excel/google sheets i tried using the split function in google sheets but it requires a delimiter, i was successful in using excel's split to column toolbox but google sheets (I cant find one, it asks fore either a space , | etc or custom) but i cant be ""
data tab > text to column> fixed width > data columns
click on the arrow
and make the lines even by columns
works, question is how do i do that in google sheets?
You may try using the sample formula if you have a common pattern as given in Google Docs Forum.
However, as discussed in Combining and Splitting Data in Spreadsheets, delimiter is a character upon which you will split the contents of the Spreadsheets cell and using it is still required.
With reference to the given example:
if you want to split the text contained in the column A, using the delimiter " " (space), we will first need to insert an extra column. This will insure the formula doesn’t replace what is currently in column B.
I need to create three text form fields in MS WORD, where, when you enter the two integers, in these two forms, the third form sums them. Sorry for my bad english. I added an image, so you could understand me more
http://tinypic.com/r/29lcp00/8
You're going to want to create a table:(example)
in the cell to the right of "Sum" click in it then in the tool ribbon above go to Layout(Under table tools) click on formula and enter =SUM(ABOVE) and set number format "0". This will get you the sum of integers in the cells above within that column.
For more detailed instructions:
MS Article "Use a formula in a Word table"
I have a fairly simple MS Access Database that contains some metadata about a bunch of documents and a hyperlink field that links to the document on our network drive.
However, when I use a SQL INSERT statement to populate the hyperlink field, the value I give it only becomes the display text, not the actual link.
How can I make the value a functional hyperlink? I'd think that the hyperlink data type would actually create hyperlinks.
I'm using Access 2002 SP3.
I do not like hyperlink fields they are inconvenient and difficult to edit. It is much easier to use a text or memo field and use followhyperlink in the code for your form. That being said, the format for a hyperlink is:
DisplayPart#hyperlinkpart#
So
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