I have a column with product codes. each code starts with "11P - " and is followed by a 6 digit number. Is there a way that I can format the cell so that have this automaticlly added when I type in the rest of the code. For example if I type "123456" the cell would display "11P - 123456"
I imagine that it is a matter of setting up a custom # format, but I have no clue how to do that.
Been racking brain, searching through the forum here, and my Excel 2003 Bible all day trying to figure out this problem to no avail. I would like to clear the contents of any cell in a given range if the cell immediately to the right of is formatted as bold.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to change cell format from custom to general or text and keep the cell value
I have this in formula bar: 16/08/2013 4:37:00 AM
which is displayed in the cell as: 16/08/2013 4:37
I want to change the cell format to general but display the same information.
I have used Options>View - Zero Values.", "style="background: #FFFFFF;padding: 2px;font-size: 10px;width: 550px;"");' onmouseout='GAL_hidepopup ();'>formatting.htm" target="_blank">conditional format to change color of fonts based on values. I want to add a "find" condition that will change color of font when "part" of cell has value. for example:
=or(B6="P",B6="A")
works fine...
but,
=or(B6="P",B6="A",FIND("P/",B6,1))
I am trying to create a follow-up spreadsheet with an actions column. But my boss wants the column to have text numbered in rows in the cell. So e.g Actions for an item might be:
1-send letter
2-call office
3-make coffee (upto 5 max)
this list will need to be typed in, and I have tried to make excel launch a box in which the user types in the text. But that didnt work. I know how to wrap the cell but I cant get each action on a new line easily?
I am a biologist that works with transgenic animals and I am using Excel to keep records of my mice. I would like to have a column that includes the age as calculated by the DOB of my animal on any given day.
Furthermore I would like for it to be smart enough to tell me in weeks for younger mice and months for older mice. If i do this, obviously i will need a txt string that says "x mnths" or "Y wks" or whatever.
i have come up with an if/then string that works - but for some reason it will not allow me to format the number of decimal places if i include text. here is the function:
=IF(((TODAY()-B6)/7)>12,((TODAY()-B6)/30.417) &" mnths", ((TODAY()-B6)/7) &" wks")
the B6 cell is the DOB of that particular animal.
so what this SHOULD shoot out is something to the effect of "4 mnths" or "3 wks"
depending on the age of the animal. any animal older than 12 weeks will express in function of months and any younger will be in weeks. however what i end up seeing is something like this: 5.81911431107604 mnths I dont need any where near that many dec places...and obviously this doesn't fit in any reasonably sized cell......
I want to change the look of the text in a cell to be highlighted in some way, preferably bold. Ex. if I put a1 in the cell, it does a VLOOKUP to get the value. Is there a way to have the a1 change to A1 on enter?
View 9 Replies View RelatedCell b6 has been formatted to a percentage with 2 decimal places. Using the formula: ="todays percentage is "&B6&", thank you.". The value returned is: todays percentage is 0.78125 thank you. My question is can the returned value from cell b6 be formatted to a percentage or at least be formatted to 2 decimal places? I hope i posted this correctly i am a first timer.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have the next formula
=IF(C6="PRODUCT 1","$"&VLOOKUP(B6,N:T,3,FALSE)&" & "&"$"&VLOOKUP(B6,N:T,5,FALSE),"N/A)
which aberrantly returns text:
$24.675 & $26.2
I was wandering is there a way to format or put a formula which will format the numbers to be with two decimal places. The cell containing the formula is already formatted as number and the source tables are numbers with two decimal places.
i want the result to look like this
$24.68 & $26.20
I am pulling reports out of a non-windows based program. This program spits out the data directly into an Excel spreadsheet, with but a click of a button. I imagine that the designers of this program assumed that this would be useful, but it's actually proving to be quite irritating.
The Date format they have chosen for their program is NOT the date format that Excel uses, but it resembles it enough to cause serious problems. The original program tracks dates in a "dd/mm/yy" format, rather then Excel's "mm/dd/yy". To my VAST personal irritation Excel does NOT convert this into Text (which could be
manipulated by snipping it into the correct format) but instead converts it into it's own Date format, leaving me with a useless and incorrect serial number as the only data.
I cannot interact with the exporting process at all, and as the program exports DIRECTLY into Excel I cannot manipulate the data prior to import (which would be one relatively easy way of avoiding this problem). I am left trying to figure out a way to reconstruct an actual date out of this mess. Is there any way to convert a date serial number BACK into text?
I have a large number of cells with time stamps: 00:07:45 (hh:mm:ss)
What I would like to do is just show the mm - but NOT format the cell as [mm], just as a general / number '7'.......
In a cell I have this formula to tell me what day of the week the previous date falls on. =TEXT(J77,"ddd")
I want to know how i can format that column so that weekends are in red.
Are there any custom formats i could use to center align a particular text in a cell if it is chosen in a dropdown validation (example: N/A)?
I would like "N/A" to be aligned in the center and all other choices aligned to the left.
i am trying to work on a database that has some errors that i want to correct the issue is that some of the cells have data that is listed last, first instead it needs to be listed into first last.
I can not seperate this into 2 fields as it would break the program this database belongs to.
this database is linked from excell to access i am using excell to update an access database
i use office 2010
I have a column of data that contain miscellaneous comments in each of the cells in column 'A'. This is a sample of the text in one of those cells:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Is there a way to programmaticly search each cell in col 'A' to look for any occurrence of the string 'fox jumps over' and highlite in RED only that string occurrence?
So in the end the above cell would now be:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
I have two cells. In cell A1 there is a text "(fi) = " and in A2 a number, for example 30. (fi) means a symbol for diameter (letter "f", using Symbol font). Is it possible to joint those two cells in third cell using formula "=A1&A2", maintaining original fonts? What i get is "f = 30", not "(fi) = 30".
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a workbook with two worksheets. I added a formula to the first worksheet
= COUNTIF(Scorecard!H3,"K"). It works fine when I add another COUNTIF that references another column (baseball fans may realize I'm counting total strikeouts for a batter): =COUNTIF(Scorecard!H3,"K")+COUNTIF(Scorecard!L3,"K") However, when I try to expand this to cover more columns, =COUNTIF(Scorecard!H3,"K")+COUNTIF(Scorecard!L3,"K")+COUNTIF(Scorecard!P3,"K")
Excel automatically changes the format of this cell to "Text" and it shows the formula as text instead of calculating it. What could be wrong here? Excel's documentation is woefully inadequate for cases like this. Is there an undocumented limit on how many times I can add COUNTIFs together?
I've been doing this excel worksheet for work; even though I've never used excel macros or VBA before.(So if this is an easy question to answer don't laugh at me. :P) (I have worked with other programming languages though.) Anyway, using a VBA manual, I've done pretty well, until now. I'm trying to make a macro that when one clicks on the button it saves the file as a text tab delimited file, but giving it the name of whatever the user put into a specific cell. (And also without closing the excel file too, so they can add more if they have to) So I've gotten it now so that it saves with the correct name, but I am unsure about how to make it save as the text file I want. (At the moment it saves as an unreadable file) Any help would be great thanks.
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On the attached, I want to make the status 3 lines conditional on the text found in another cell.
View 5 Replies View RelatedExcel 2007 Textbox changes LinkedCell Cell format to Text. If I do a VLOOKUP on that cell it fails and I have to "Convert to number".
My application is to enter a ZIPCODE into ZIP textbox, then for CITY and STATE to autofill using VLOOKUP in both CITY and STATE cells.
I'm trying to make a schedule for some of my employees (300 to be exact) and I was trying to work out a way of speeding things up a bit. I've made plenty of pretty complex equations for working with the task but the solution for what I would like to do now alludes me.
Here's the challenge: I have a sheet where I would like to insert employees within row 4 and then have their shifts shown visually in the column below that, and have the hours they work put into a merged cell (or something similar), like what can be seen in the blue cell under "Employee 1" (C6). What I would like to do is just have something like a VBA detect that a series of cells is merged (red cells) and insert the corresponding time, located within B5:B33, into that cell (with same format as the blue cell). Also, above the employee's name I could put a button to run something like a macro to run the program for the corresponding employee directly under that button.
Essentially I want to merge a series of cells, hit a button, and have excel locate and input the correct times within that merged cell.
conditional format formula that is based on a text range within a cell. In my case, I would like to compare the low and high range when inputted as a number followed by the quotation marks followed by space then hyphen, space then number and ending in quotation marks. The quotation mark is being used to represent inches.
Like this in cell D14: 0.2 - 2.2
I am using the following condition format formula which works for the strict case above.
HTML =OR(D16<LEFT($D$14,3)+0,D16>MID($D$14,8,3)+0)
However, there will be times when users using this spreadsheet may leave out the spaces on either side of the hyphen, or add more than one space between the number and hyphen. Also if additional digits are added, my formula above does not include all the digits in the results. I prefer to leave the quotation marks in...........
how to allow formating a text and cell in protect sheet ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow to modify a custom cell format to make data entry easier.
My goal is to have the output look like this: 'A12B-C20D: SET 10: Text string here'
Inputs needed are:
1-3 digit number between A & B
1-3 digit number between C & D
1-2 digit number after SET
Text string of variable length
Where I am stuck. So far I can get "A12B-C20D: SET 10:" to show up properly when 122010 is input. The custom format I am using looks like this: "A"##"B-C"##"D: SET "##": "
When I try to incorporate the "@" symbol the first part of the formatting goes away and the output shows up as "122010 Text string here".
I have tried:
"A"###"B-C"###"D: SET "##":";;-;_@
"A"###"B-C"###"D: SET "##": ";;@
"A"###"B-C"###"D: SET "##":";_@
"A"###"B-C"###"D: SET "##": ";;;@
How can I convert all cell values in active range to text format without losing the actual value.
For Ex.
0123 will remain 0123
07/12/2014 will remain 07/1/2014
3453 will remain 3453
regardless of there previous format. Currently I am doing this manually for every column before creating a load file for SQL database.
I have been trying to format the rows on this sheet to color scale red based on the number of repeat text strings in Column E. Referring to the attached example sheet, '321/312.2/321.3' appears the most times and the goal is to color code the rows it appears in the deepest shade of red, then the next highest occurring string would shade the rows it appears in a lighter shade, etc, in descending order. Our team currently does this across multiple sheets manually everyday and it would be a real time saver if we could get excel to do this automatically.
View 14 Replies View RelatedVBA code which can distinguish whether a cell has been edited by:
selecting an option from a data validation list (DVL)
or
manually editing the text in a cell?
The ""Show error alert after invalid data is entered"" option is unticked to allow both selection from the DVL as well as free format text entries.
The problem arises when using the code below which makes an edited cell within a range display the new value as well as the prior value(s). This works well when using the DVL but not when editing the cell.
Is there any code which can distinguish between the 2?
[Code] ....
I've made an formula to concartenate some numbers:
In A1 the value is 0
In B1 the value is 0
In C1 the value is 6
In D1 the value is 9
In E1 the value is 5
These numbers will change acording to a formula, but:
In F1 the formula is =A1&B1&C1&D1&E1
but in F1 the result will be: 00695
How can i make the result in F1 to be 695 instead of 00695?
Is there a way to name a range beginning with a number? It doesn't accept it. Is there a way around this? range name examples: 2DBSUS 3DBSUS
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to save myself some time at work, that's why I want to create an automatic sheet in Excel using VBA. I need to create files with monthly reports of data.
My project looks like this:
1. Gather information from user (Month & Year)
2. Create a file which name is based on Month & Year
3. Select data sheet
4. Find date range to copy (RowBegin, RowEnd)
5. Copy nad Paste required data into new file (point 2.)
6. Delete rows, formated in certain way
7. Find bottom of all columns and insert row with all formulas
8. Format all sheet acording to requirements
I was looking over MrExcel.com and I know how to do all the points besides point -> 4. Find date range to copy (RowBegin, RowEnd)
I got a column "D" with about 5000 cells for now and the sheet is updated daily. In those cells I got dates formatted like this:
D
4012 14/02/2006
4013 21/02/2006
4014 15/03/2006
4015 15/03/2006
4016 17/03/2006
4017 07/04/2006
4018 07/04/2006
4019 20/04/2006
What I dont know is how get in VBA two variables range of row numbers describing selected month (for example March) - from (RowBegin) & to (RowEnd), in this case RowBegin=4014 and RowEnd=4016, which I can later put into:
RowSub = RowEnd - RowBegin
Range("A&RowBegin&:A&RowEnd).Copy Sheets("March").Range("A1:A&RowSub)