I started this on 1/26 and learned I had curly quotes that were breaking the formula. I worked through that, with help here, but now I'm at the last piece, allowing 2 owners with different last names to print out like I want them to.
So far my formula works “OK”, but it’s not perfect:=TEXTJOIN(" ", TRUE,(IMPORTRANGE("","Directory!D5")),IF((IMPORTRANGE("","Directory!E5"))<>"","&",""),(IMPORTRANGE("","Directory!E5")),(IMPORTRANGE("","Directory!C5")))
What exists on Worksheet A:Column C Column D Column ELAST NAME (1st OWNER) 1st NAME (1st OWNER) 2nd OWNER {1st, (LAST)}Ex 1 Smith Marshall Julie ---Ex 2 Jones Chris SamanthaEx 3 Anderson Patrick Jane Doe
How I want it to pull onto Worksheet B:Column COWNER(S) WHAT “SHOULD” PRINT IN THE CELLEx 1 Julie Smith Marshall NO “&” symbolEx 2 Chris & Samantha Jones “&” symbol between the 2 first namesEx 3 Patrick Anderson & Jane Doe “&” symbol between the 2 full names
BUT, what I’m getting on Worksheet B, using the code above:Column COWNER(S) WHAT ”IS” PRINTING IN THE CELLEx 1 Julie Smith Marshall NO “&” symbolEx 2 Chris & Samantha Jones “&” symbol between the 2 first namesEx 3 Patrick & Jane Doe Anderson 2nd owner name in the middle of1st owner F/L name
What I think I need…somehow:
- currently…A. if there is NO value in Column E, this is working fine (ex. 1)B. if there IS a value in Column E, and it’s ONLY ONE WORD (a “first” name), this is working fine (ex. 2)C. BUT, this is NOT working if the Column E value is TWO WORDS (a “first” and a “last” name)D. NOTE: Column E is entered in the cell as: FirstName LastName (ex. 3)
- so to brainstorm…A. NOTE: data on Worksheet A is VERY “clean”; NO extraneous “spaces”, etc.; I did the “trim whitespace” action, and there was noneB. right now the IMPORTRANGE “read” is in this order: Column D, if Column E is blank skip Column E else print the "&" then Column E then Column CC. the only difference between when it works/not is the # words/names in Column ED. so if Column E is NOT blank, then it needs to check for a “space” in that text...i. if there is NO space, do what it’s doing now,a. print the "&" then Column Eb. so the print order is: D “&” E Cii. if there IS a space, then skip anda. go to next IMPORTRANGE for Column Cb. then print the "&" then do IMPORTRANGE for Column E then print Column Ec. so the print order ends up: D C “&” EE. I’ve ruled out, for various reasons:i. QUERYii. LISTiii. FILTERiv. ARRAYFORMULAv. CONCATENATEF. I keep thinking I should be able to “nest” these functions within the IF functionG. I have played with TEXTJOIN and the IF function in conjunction with:i. SEARCHii. MATCHiii. REGEXMATCH
But alas, I’ve struck out on every attempt…ARGH! I’m not having any luck with getting a successful function that “works”! I just keep getting “formula parse error”. I’ve verified all of my quotation marks are straight quotes. I’ve verified equivalent open/close parentheses. I’ve verified my . I’m just frustrated and lost. Can anyone point me in the correct direction? Much appreciation for ANY help! :-)