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Substituting/Replacing/Reversing in Excel

Is there a way to swap values in a rating scale in an Excel spreadsheet?  Like, participants scored something from 1 to 6, with 1 being low and 6 being high.  But I want to change all the 1's to 6's, the 2's to 5's, the 3's to 4's, the 4's to 3's, the 5's to 2's, and the 6's to 1's.  Find and Replace doesn't work because once it changes the 1's to 6's, then later it wants to goes back and find the 6's (that used to be 1's) back into 1's.  Does that make sense?  Can you do a find and replace all at once?  Or is there some other formula (vlookup, substitute, etc) that does this?

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Re: Substituting/Replacing/Reversing in Excel

  • I'd probably find/replace twice-

    So, change the 1s to 12s and then the 6s to 1s and then the 12s to 6s, and so on. 

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  • imageandrealynn0707:

    I'd probably find/replace twice-

    So, change the 1s to 12s and then the 6s to 1s and then the 12s to 6s, and so on. 

    Ditto.

  • imageandrealynn0707:

    I'd probably find/replace twice-

    So, change the 1s to 12s and then the 6s to 1s and then the 12s to 6s, and so on. 

    Actually, instead of changing to another number, I'd do a letter. But, you get the idea. 

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  • imageandrealynn0707:

    I'd probably find/replace twice-

    So, change the 1s to 12s and then the 6s to 1s and then the 12s to 6s, and so on. 

    Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly but I thought this is what I did.  I did a F&R 6 times essentially.  I changed 1's to 6's, 2's to 5's, and so on but then when I get to change the 6's to 1's, it changes all the current 6's (some of which used to be 1's but that I just changed into 6's) back into 1's.  Maybe I'm not explaining it right.  Argh, head hurts!

    ETA: so there is no formula that will essentially "sawp/reverse" a rating scale (like 1 to 6) like that?

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  • imageilovedpp:
    imageandrealynn0707:

    I'd probably find/replace twice-

    So, change the 1s to 12s and then the 6s to 1s and then the 12s to 6s, and so on. 

    Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly but I thought this is what I did.  I did a F&R 6 times essentially.  I changed 1's to 6's, 2's to 5's, and so on but then when I get to change the 6's to 1's, it changes all the current 6's (some of which used to be 1's but that I just changed into 6's) back into 1's.  Maybe I'm not explaining it right.  Argh, head hurts!

    Yeah, the idea is that you want to change the things that will be duplicated to something entirely different. So your list looks like this:

     1

    1

    1

    2

    2

    2

    3

    3

    3

    and then, you change the 1s to As:

    A

    A

    A

    2

    2

    2

    3

    3

    3

    and then the 3s to 1s: 

    A

    A

    A

    2

    2

    2

    1

    1

    1

    and then the As to 3s
    3

    3

    3

    2

    2

    2

    1

    1

    1

     

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  • Idea Ah, the lightbulb went off.  I get what you're saying now.  I still wish there was some formula to do this.  Thanks a bunch!
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