I have a Google Sheet where the users are building a name in a column based on content entered into previous columns. I need to limit the output of the formula to 128 characters (limitation of names in Vimeo).
I was wondering what is the best way to alert the user that the video name they are creating is longer than 128 characters and that they need to shorten it.
Is there any formula where the number of characters could be counted, and if the total characters were more than 128 characters there could be some way to let the user know how many characters they have exceeded 128 characters by?
That would be very useful to the person creating the name. I can't allow a name longer than 128 characters to be created.
The 3 different formulas I have used across 3 different sheets are:
formula 1
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF($E2:$E="Yes", $D2:$D, IF(ISBLANK($A2:$A), "", $A2:$A & " - ") & IF(ISBLANK($B2:$B), "", $B2:$B & " - ") & IF(ISBLANK($C2:$C), "", $C2:$C & ". ") & $D2:$D))formula 2
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISBLANK($A2:$A), "", $A2:$A & " - ") & IF(ISBLANK($B2:$B), "", $B2:$B & " - ") & IF(ISBLANK($C2:$C), "", $C2:$C & ". ") & $D2:$D)formula 3
=ARRAYFORMULA(($A2:$A & " - ") & $B2:$B)Here is a copy of my demo sheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AIdZmFqtojG_7OLY_twJhmFewVTyoFAsozzbeSeHun4/edit?usp=sharing
The formulas are in Row 2 of the tabs:
- Formula 1: CC videos - Column I Row 2
- Formula 2: AB videos - Column H Row 2
- Formula 3: @home promos - Column F Row 2
I don't know how to apply LEFT to an array formula and I also don't know how to calculate remaining characters.
