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Every character that you see on your screen has an associated code number. For Windows systems, Excel uses the standard ANSI (American National Standards Institute) character set. The ANSI character set consists of 255 characters, numbered from 1 to 255.
Figure 5-1 shows a portion of an Excel worksheet that displays all 255 characters. This example uses the Calibri font. (Other fonts may have different characters.)
Figure 5-1: The ANSI character set (for the Calibri font).
| On the CD |
The companion CD-ROM includes a copy of the workbook |
Two functions come into play when dealing with character codes: CODE and CHAR. These functions aren’t very useful by themselves. However, they can prove quite useful in conjunction with other functions. I discuss these functions in the following sections.
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The CODE and CHAR functions work only with ANSI strings. These functions will not work with double-byte Unicode strings. |
THE CODE FUNCTION
Excel’s CODE function returns the character code for its argument. The formula that follows returns 65, the character code for uppercase A:
=CODE("A")
If the argument for CODE consists of more than one character, the function uses only the first character. Therefore, this formula also returns 65:
=CODE("Abbey Road")
THE CHAR FUNCTION
The CHAR function is essentially the opposite of the CODE function. Its argument should be a value between 1 and 255, and the function should return the corresponding character. The following formula, for example, returns the letter A:
=CHAR(65)
To demonstrate the opposing nature of the CODE and CHAR functions, try entering this formula:
=CHAR(CODE("A"))
This formula (illustrative rather than useful) returns the letter A. First, it converts the character to its code value (65) and then it converts this code back to the corresponding character.
Assume that cell A1 contains the letter A (uppercase). The following formula returns the letter a (lowercase):
=CHAR(CODE(A1)+32)
This formula takes advantage of the fact that the alphabetic characters all appear in alphabetical order within the character set, and the lowercase letters follow the uppercase letters (with a few other characters tossed in between). Each lowercase letter lies exactly 32 character positions higher than its corresponding uppercase letter.
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Don’t overlook the handy Symbol dialog box (which appears when you choose Insert 
Text 
Symbol). This dialog box makes it easy to insert special characters (including Unicode characters) into cells. For example, you might (for some strange reason) want to include a smiley face character in your spreadsheet. Access Excel’s Symbol dialog box and select the Wingdings font (see the accompanying figure). Examine the characters, locate the smiley face, click Insert, and then click Cancel. You’ll also find out that this character has a code of 74.
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