合并Excel中的行并用OR分隔

Question

At work I get Excel sheets pretty regularly that contain a column of numbers (which can be anywhere from 4 to 12 digits long). Sometimes I get a few, sometimes I get hundreds. I need to search for these numbers in an Isilon server using Windows Explorer (it is an SMB based server) which can handle roughly 50 numbers at a time.

The only way to do this right now is the old fashioned way - I copy 50 numbers from the column of numbers in Excel and paste them into Notepad. I then make all of the numbers one row and manually paste in between each number the OR function. So I end up with something like this (this is only 10 but it could be up to 50):

1266135 OR 1266197 OR 1266197 OR 1266197 OR 1266256 OR 1266256 OR 1266256 OR 1266418 OR 1266418 OR 1266418

I'm not that good with VBA, I rely mostly on what I can do with macros. Auto formatting a column of numbers to look like this for searching in Windows is beyond me. I have tried some of the things I've found here on Stack but the hardest part so far has been to place the OR function between each number.

Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

In the same vein as one of the other commenters, I would recommend a function that would auto-generate the text you need for you (recursively) or a macro. However, if you'd like something you could just paste into a cell to get what you want, it would look something like

=CONCATENATE(A1," OR ",A2," OR ",A3," OR ",A4," OR ",A5," OR ",A6," OR ",A7," OR ",A8," OR ",A9," OR ",A10," OR ",A11," OR ",A12," OR ",A13," OR ",A14," OR ",A15," OR ",A16," OR ",A17," OR ",A18," OR ",A19," OR ",A20," OR ",A21," OR ",A22," OR ",A23," OR ",A24," OR ",A25," OR ",A26," OR ",A27," OR ",A28," OR ",A29," OR ",A30," OR ",A31," OR ",A32," OR ",A33," OR ",A34," OR ",A35," OR ",A36," OR ",A37," OR ",A38," OR ",A39," OR ",A40," OR ",A41," OR ",A42," OR ",A43," OR ",A44," OR ",A45," OR ",A46," OR ",A47," OR ",A48," OR ",A49, " OR ", A50)

(pretty long for 50) Once you've done it once, you can take whatever cells you need by either dragging a cell with this formula down (to increment all the numbers) or replacing the "A" with another cell by dragging left/right (just offsetting the starting cell to whatever you want). The output of this cell is a set of 50 starting from the first listed cell in the formula and going straight down. This might be the most 'drag and drop' way to get the text you want.

Answer 2

Here is a VBA version that joins all values from column A on Sheet1

Public Sub MergeVals()

    Debug.Print Join(Application.Transpose(Sheet1.UsedRange.Columns(1)), " Or ")

End Sub

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Output: 1266135 Or 1266197 Or 1266197 Or 1266197 Or 1266256 Or 1266256