Displaying Watermark Text In Cell Without Formula?
Jul 29, 2013
I am trying to display watermark text in a cell based on the value of another cell. For example:
If in Column B, cell B2 states "Mileage", Column C, cell C2 needs to say "Please enter Start and Destination...". I want column C (cell C2) to be my input cell as well hence the reason i'm avoiding the use of an IF formula.
I'm open to a VBA solution if this works? Tried conditional formatting however it will only display colours, not text?
I am using the following math formula in cell C12:
=IF(B12="","",IF(B12<2,-1,INT(B12/5)))
What I want to do is if cell B3 equals a text value of the word "All" then cell B12 would display nothing. If B3 equals any other value then the math formula above be used.
I'm having to re-learn formula commands in order to continue to use my spreadsheets (I had tried to get the Quattro Pro converter to work in Excel 2003 with no success). Actually, I would have stayed with QP since I find it much more user friendly, but with Excel being the standard spreadsheet that most people use, I figured I better get used to it. Anyway, I'm currently trying to find out how I might get the same text that shows up in varying cells in an otherwise blank column (other cells contain formulas, but no text) to also show up in another fixed cell (which can be where I put this formula).
Any way to always include the sheet name before the cell address in a formula? For example, in my "Summary" sheet, I have a formula:
Code: =A2 + B4/B5
However, without typing anything else, I'd like the formula to populate the sheet name since I will be extracting the formula as text and need the full reference:
Code: =Summary!A2 + Summary!B4/Summary!B5
A way to get around this is to enter the equal sign, then temporarily select another sheet, then go back to the "Summary" sheet where all cell references will include the sheet name, but if there is a quicker way to do it using some kind of property or event in VBA, that would be ideal.
I need to display all text after first comma in a cell in another cell. For example Text in A1 = 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. I need to display in B1 all the text after the first comma which would be = 1.2, 1.3
I have a procedure that creates ranges all the way down Sheet1(2006). each range is 65 rows. When I run the macro, it takes the first 65 rows as a fill source and fills the page down. Another procedure names each range as a corresponding date. this works fine How do I add a watermark in the back ground that reformats the name of each range from Wednesday_Aug_02 to Wednesday, August 2. I would want the watermark to be very large and slightly diagnal. Here is the code I use to fill and name my ranges for 2006.
Sub timelayout() 'fills the formated range down the page Set SourceRange = Worksheets("2006").Range("8:73") Set fillRange = Worksheets("2006").Range("8:12000") SourceRange.AutoFill Destination:=fillRange End Sub Sub DefineName2006() 'names each range based on the date of the first named range Dim i As Long Dim a, b, c, x Dim dt As Date dt = DateSerial(2006, 7, 6)
For i = 8 To 12000 Step 66 j = j + 1 a = Application.WorksheetFunction.Text(dt + j, "ddd") b = Application.WorksheetFunction.Text(dt + j, "mmm") c = Application.WorksheetFunction.Text(dt + j, "d") x = a & "_" & b & "_" & c ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:=x, RefersToR1C1:="=2006!R" & i & "C1:R" & _ i + 65 & "C1" Next i End Sub
Other buttons and labels on a user form tell the user the name of the current range, that is scrolled at start up. the name is reformated and put in a label. Buttons allow the user to jump to tomorrow, yesterday, next week, last week. Things work I just want a water mark in the back ground to further help the user see which day they are on.
I do all of our invoicing in excel and want to be able to print out 2 copies of an invoice from a macro assigned button. A watermark "Copy Invoice" is required to print diagonally across the A4 page but on one copy only.
I have to print the admit card of each students with their details like Name of student, Fathers name, roll no., subjects, examination center years, etc. in a given admit card format. I had scan the blank admit card and used as a background image in excel but the image of the admit card does not print in excel except the cell values that I had entered.
I had made the database of all students details. I want to use the students database to print students data on the scanned admit card image. I also want a option to select the name of the student before printing (to verify the details). Please help me how to do it in excel. I am using excel 2000.
I was looking to have a Word for example 'Apple' but want it as a number e.g '10'. I want to use it so that I can add up the prices of items by just clicking on the name of the item. So If I want to add up 3 items e.g. an apple , a banana and a pear which all cost £10 each I want to be able to click all three items and get the total of £30 displayed in a certain box.
I'm using an Excel spreadsheet as a database (mostly text based), so that in columns 1 and 2 are names and in column 3 is notes. I'm keeping all the columns single height (ie: not wrapping text). Where there is nothing in column 4 onwards, the text from column 3 displays across the subsequent blank fields.
I have a variable COMTXT that loads (via loop) several short lines of text to form a "mouthful" of comments together. But have 2 issues with it.
1- I need to add a carriage return after loading each short line of text. [code] Module1.COMTXT = Module1.COMTXT + Sheets(3). Cells(Module1.COMCODE, 1) [?CODE]I have try'd [& vbCrLf &] in many syntax's to no avail.
2- When displaying COMTXT to a sheet, its too big for the cell ! and not able to enlarge the cell without major disortion to rest of sheet. How do I acheive this and allow the text to display like a textbox or label, covering many cells and rows.
I'm working with a worksheet with one sheet per day of the month (we use a master, copy/paste, change the copy to the current month, and go from there). I've already got it to figure the dates based off (really difficult).
The formula contained within these cells equals =MONTH(C84) [the date 2 cells above it]... to which I've formatted the cell to "mmmm" and it displays "January" across the board. Can anyone explain why this is occuring and how I can fix it please? I'm aiming to graph this information and can't accurately do it using the moving monthly system i've put in place if I can't change the months dynamically like this.
Secondly, and on a side note. Line 84 currently takes todays date (not currently todays date in the example screenshot) (=TODAY()), and to get to the previous 13 months I deduct 31 days. I can foresee this as being a problem further down the track especially when leap years come into play. Is there a function in Excel where I can simply deduct 1 month from another? =MONTH(C84)-1 ?
The basic spreadsheet consists of a list of names down the left hand side with 19 columns across - one for each art activity (I have pasted a copy of it below - but it doesn't paste so good!). Each person has selected their three activities and this has been recorded by placing a 1, 2 or 3 in the relative columns. Each person has been told that they will get a place on two out of three of their chosen activities (in which case we will change one of their choices to a 0).
What I would now like to be able to do is to create a mail merge in Word which looks at each person and then goes along that row to find out which columns have a 1, 2, or 3 in it. The heading for that column would then be used as a merge field so that I end up with a word document which looks something like this:
The first being that when the first if condition is not met, it is displaying false. The formula should be set up with multiple if statements and then display 0 if all conditions are false. What am I missing? Why won't it work for all the conditions or display a 0?
Second problem is that when I try to add the last if formula to accommodate the drop down option of 60 months (5) excel is giving me an error in the formula. It doesn't matter if I type in the if statement or cut and paste. Why won't it work for this option. A sample spreadsheet is attached. The formula is cell F6 highlighted in yellow.
I am working on a spreadsheet that calculates sales results weekly / monthly / quarterly / and year to date. I need to be able to get a picture to automatically populate in a specific fields based on the sales results for that week / month / quarter / year. There are 3 pictures indicating: sales below budget (sad face), above budget but below goal (black dot), and above goal (gold star). I have tried using non-macro means, but I can't seem to get anything to work for use with multiple cells and I do not wish to use conventional conditional formatting. I do not know nearly enough about macros or VBA to even attempt this type of thing.
i put in a vlookup formula and it doesn't display any results, it just diplays the formula with the = sign in the cell. it does that with any formula i enter. i tried hitting it and everything.
Workbook containing macros and formulas. The workbook will create worksheets automatically by macros and uses the same formulas in the worksheet. After creating the 10th worksheet these formulas stop displaying the result. They showed #N/A but in actual there supposed to have a values in each of the cells. By manually clicking the formula bar and pressing enter these values will appear.
I entered a simple formula in a cell =B14*B16 but it won't calculate. The cell only displays the formula and not the result. tell me what I did wrong. I've attached a sample.
I have a situation where I have to curve fit data, this can lead to different formulas being used with varying constants.
Is it possible to pickup a TEXT based formula and related constants from other cells, and then place this into another cell as a functioning formula. For Example
Cell A1 contains the formula as a text string whether it be y=a+bx+cx^2, or y=a+b/x, etc Cells A2:A6 contain the individual constants, a, b, c, etc
I would then want the VBA to read the text based formula and put it into an output cell as a functioning excel formulae.g
In cell B10: =a+b*A10+c*A10^2
I understand picking the constants up and putting the formula should not be too much of an issue, however trying to insert the variable form of the curve fit is the part that I am struggling with, and am unsure if possible.
