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State-to-Abbrev ( State )

Convert and substitute U.S. State names to their 2 Letter Abbreviation

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Chase Holden - Show more from this author Merchant Services Group http://mservicegroup.com

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Parameter = "State" Substitute ( TextFormatRemove( Trim( Proper( State ))) ; ["Alabama";"AL"]; ["Alaska";"AK"]; ["Arizona";"AZ"]; ["Arkansas";"AR"]; ["British Columbia";"BC"]; ["California";"CA"]; ["Colorado";"CO"]; ["Connecticut";"CT"]; ["Delaware";"DE"]; ["District of Columbia";"DC"]; ["Florida";"FL"]; ["Georgia";"GA"]; ["Hawaii";"HI"]; ["Idaho";"ID"]; ["Illinois";"IL"]; ["Indiana";"IN"]; ["Iowa";"IA"]; ["Kansas";"KS"]; ["Kentucky";"KY"]; ["Louisiana";"LA"]; ["Maine";"ME"]; ["Maryland";"MD"]; ["Massachusetts";"MA"]; ["Michigan";"MI"]; ["Minnesota";"MN"]; ["Mississippi";"MS"]; ["Missouri";"MO"]; ["Montana";"MT"]; ["Nebraska";"NE"]; ["Nevada";"NV"]; ["New Hampshire";"NH"]; ["New Jersey";"NJ"]; ["New Mexico";"NM"]; ["New York";"NY"]; ["North Carolina";"NC"]; ["North Dakota";"ND"]; ["Nova Scotia";"NS"]; ["Ohio";"OH"]; ["Oklahoma";"OK"]; ["Oregon";"OR"]; ["Pennsylvania";"PA"]; ["Quebec";"QB"]; ["Puerto Rico";"PR"]; ["Rhode Island";"RI"]; ["South Carolina";"SC"]; ["South Dakota";"SD"]; ["Tennessee";"TN"]; ["Texas";"TX"]; ["Utah";"UT"]; ["Vermont";"VT"]; ["Virginia";"VA"]; ["Washington";"WA"]; ["Washington District of Columbia";"DC"]; ["Washington DC";"DC"]; ["Washington, DC";"DC"]; ["West Virginia";"WV"]; ["Wisconsin";"WI"]; ["Wyoming";"WY"] ) Click to copy

This custom function will accept any U.S. state spelling and some Canadian Provinces and replace the field with its 2 character abbreviation in CAPS. Function will also normalize the text input from any upper or lower Case characters, trim any extra spaces and remove any text formatting.

 

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