I am trying to use an "IF" statement to either apply a formula or retain the last value of the cell, is there a way to accomplish this.
E.g. = IF( A1=B1, "retain last value", D1)
last value = the value of the cell prior either to A1 or B1 being changed.
i'm having trouble formating a cell to accept either user input or a equation i've made. i would like it to accept the user input and when there is no input to use the equation i have.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to retain a formula when you have a drop down options that generates a date stamp? The problem is, i have this worksheet that has a drop down option on column B and generates the Due Date on column A, once an option is selected on the drop down list. After selecting, the output becomes static, but then overwrites the formula of column A, thus i guess making it static. I've had great help from this board helping me with the formula and the vb code. Is it possible? Here's an example of the formula and the ...
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using the VLOOKUP function in a cell, however, I would like the value returned to also retain the text format from the table (eg colour and bold). I have attached a simple example (to demonstrate the point) where cell B14 should have the word 'French' in bold red.Example.xlsx
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am creating a worksheet that uses a series of if formulas to determine the correct cell to use in a table outside the printing/viewing area. Something along the lines of "if X, Y, and z happens then use what is in cell AY34". I have the formula working, so I can get it to go pick up what is in the cell I want.
The problem I am having is that there is a heading to the text in cell AY34 that is bold, but the rest of the text in the cell is not bold. Is there any way to drag the formatting along with the data and not just the values?
I have a template A that has lines on it, sometimes I want to overlay template B which has other lines on it, however when I past template B on top of A the formats of A are overridden by the formats of template B.
Is there any way of "overlaying" B on top of template A without losing the template A formats?
I have a workbook that has multiple tabs with data already entered. I have also built a series of tables/forumlas to display summaries of the data. My desire is to be able to copy this table with all formulas/formatting/cell sizes to the various existing tabs.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am linking a row of data in worksheet x to a column of data in worksheet Y and would like to be able to drag down the cell reference in worksheet Y in this way:
=MIN(RuleofOriginData!AR$4:AR$63)
=MIN(RuleofOriginData!AS$4:AS$63)
=MIN(RuleofOriginData!AT$4:AT$63)
However, when I drag it down, the formula is automatically absolute for both the row and the column number instead of just the row as I indicated. Can anyone tell me why this occurs and whether there is a way to fix it?
I have found this code by searching witch is perfect
Code:
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Cells.Interior.ColorIndex = 0
With Target 'With the cell that was selected,
.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 8
.EntireColumn.Interior.ColorIndex = 8
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
The point is that i want to retain the previous formatting of cells when i select another cell. And also i would like to create a switch to turn the Worksheet_SelectionChange event on and off. The tricky part is here i guess, becouse i would like when turned off to retain the previous formatting also.
I am starting to use formulas and I am constantly amazed at the power of Excel. I am trying to write a spreadsheet and I'm having a problem getting Excel to do what I want; I have 2 column, each cell in Column 1 will have a numeric value changed daily. I want Column 2 to retain the highest value that has been added. i.e. If I type 4 in A1,(for example), on Monday, then B2 will read 4, if I type 5 in A1 the next day, then B2 will change to 5, but if I type a value less than 5 in A1, then I still want B2 to read 5. The value will be input daily for an indefinite period and needs to be user friendly. I can't work out how to achieve this.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a spreadsheet for recording property maintenance. All properties are grouped by a city zone in a specific colour, and there is conditional formatting on this. Also drop down lists for properties, contractors etc.
This all worked well, until I needed to start inserting rows. All the conditional formatting and lists didn't replicate on the newly inserted rows.
Also, we need to assign a unique reference number to each row but currently manually inputting them - very inefficient way of doing this as they will inevitably get mixed up and confused as rows are removed.
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I have the following code below. I would like to amend the code to retain the previous entry in the input box and amend this if the need arises
Code:
Sheets("data").Select
Range("B2").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = InputBox("Amend details if different from data in inputbox")
I have cells that contain number that have dashes
For example
Cell M contains the number 001-1234
Cell N contains the number 1234567 (I have formatted the cell to appear with a dash at the beginning -1234567
Cell O contains the number 891 (I have formatted the cell to appear with a dash at the beginning -891)
I want to combine the three cells and have the number look like this
001-1234-1234567-891
Is there a formula that will do this
I have tried the Concatenate to combine the cells but it just combines the numbers and won't let me format the number as I want it.
I have created a multiple choice quiz maker that randomizes the questions and responses. This means that the quiz questions/responses must be copied and pasted each time a new quiz is generated. But in doing so, Excel loses formatting (such as super and sub scripting) and some special characters (like pi, alpha, the degree symbol).
Is there a way to get such things to copy properly from cell to cell, sheet to sheet, using Excel?
Coworker was sent a spreadsheet with a singe column of loan numbers; some start with zeros, some don't. But every single cell ends with a "^". (Shift key and 6)
i.e. 0087459832^
782360134^
I am in a situation where I have to copy-n-paste text from a webpage into Excel. When I do this, the pasted text keeps the formatting of the webpage. The font is the webpage font. The background color is the background color of the webpage. Etc.
I know that I can paste just the text itself, without any of the formatting, by right-clicking, selecting "Paste Special...", and then selecting "Text" instead of "HTML". I am wondering if there is an option somewhere that will do this automatically when I hit CTRL-V instead of requiring me to pull up the Paste Special dialog box.
I am shortly to receive my new work laptop, but am aware that the new install of Excel (2003 v11, SP2) will naturally be without my custom 'cosmetic' settings.
By this, I mean that my choices of which toolbars are available, the order in which verious icons on the toolbars appear, the text tags under each icon, and of course my own user-defined icons (used to run my own macros).
I have some experience with .pip files and understand that these files are supposed to retain all your 'cosmetic' settings. But I've never been that sure a) how to use them b) if one can edit them directly c) whether copying them from my current computer to my new one will mean my settings are loaded etc. etc.
So, I wondered if anyone out there could give me some guidance on how I could successfully migrate my own 'cosmetic' preferences to my new install of Excel.
I made a spreadsheet and used pivot tables to summarise the data by project numbers (Row field of pivot table). I deleted the orginal data and copied in data from another spreadsheet. When I look at the detail in row field (click on the down arrow of the project button in the row field of the pivot table) it still shows the original project numbers plus the new project numbers. The data displayed in the pivot table looks like it only refers to the new projects but is not correct. Any ideas why the old project numbers still appear? Refreshing the data doesn't help. The only way I can get the correct data is to delete the pivot table and then recreate it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a workbook linked to an external source that is refreshed once a week. All the refreshed data is populated in column A. User defined text is typed into columns B,C,D and E. As the report increases or reduces in column A the text in B,C,D and E becomes out of sync with its original data in column A. Is there a way of keeping the data and tagging it somehow?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI realize that there are 100 posts asking this same question but I believe this question is unique. My actual data if far more complex, but I have attached a simple workbook to illustrate my problem. It is my understanding that the following code will generate a unique list of values. However, it does not work if an AdvancedFilter has been used previously in the code.
Sheets("Sheet1"). Range("B1:B6").AdvancedFilter _
Action:=xlFilterCopy, _
CopyToRange:=Sheets("Sheet2").Range("E1"), _
Unique:=True
I have been able to solve this problem by adding "CriteriaRange:=vbNullString" to the above code.
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B1:B6").AdvancedFilter _
Action:=xlFilterCopy, _
CriteriaRange:=vbNullString, _
CopyToRange:=Sheets("Sheet3").Range("E1"), _
Unique:=True
Here is my question: Do you need to reset the value of "CriteriaRange" each time you use AdvancedFilter, and if so, is setting CriteriaRange to vbNullString the best way to do so.
I'm trying to sort a column of numeric values largest to smallest while retaining their unique designators and color illustrations.
See attached. 3ColumnSort.xls
I have a listbox which is populated with filenames from a specific folder when the userform is acivated. The user can choose any filename in the list to open it or adversly to delete it. When delete is used (ListBox is set to MultiSelectExtended) the selected files are 'Killed'. The filename list is then refreshed and listbox repopulated and resized ready for the next action. The problem is the recalculated ListBox.Height works fine and the ListBox shrinks in height as expected, but a vertical scroll bar appears as the number of lines is still that was prior to the files being deleted. This happens despite code having run an instruction to make the ListBox.Height = New Number of entries * line height. This doesn't stop the application to perform as expected but is an annoying cosmetic thing.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am currently trying to add some functionality to an Excel workbook and I have a combo box that I am unable to get the values to populate. On the same worksheet I have a command button. Here is the code I am using to attempt to populate the combo box:
Private Sub cmdSendSave_Click()
Call SendSave
End Sub
Private Sub bxLocation_Change()
With bxLocation
.AddItem "Mt. Hope"
.AddItem "Summersville"
.AddItem "Huntington"
.AddItem "Pulaski"
.AddItem "Coastal Bend"
.AddItem "Odessa"
.AddItem "Wheeling"
.AddItem "Hollywood"
End With
End Sub
I want to pull data from my excel file (using VBA) into Ms Word. I created a template in Word and wrote a macro to do this, it worked, however, anytime a new row is inserted or deleted in my excel spreadsheet my macro produces wrong results in my Ms Word template because the cell position has shifted, thereby producing the wrong result. How do i make it that my result remain the same when new row is added to my spreadsheet.
Example:
Excel row1: vicky 528
row2: sam 532
row3: john 092
row4: Own 211 word template: 092
This is what happen next:
Excel (New row added) Macro: ThisDocument.ScreenedPatients.Caption = wb.Sheets("CSAs").Cells(16, 1)
row1: pat 542
row2: vicky 528
row3: sam 532
row4: john 092
row5: Own 211 resulting Word template(running macro): word template: 532
But I want John to automatically go on the Word template without going into macro to change it all the time when a new row is added.
I have data from Columns A to D. I want to do the
following:
1. Look for duplicates in all column A
2. For each duplicate found in column A, check if all values in column B are also duplicate.
3. If the condition in (2) is satisfied, compare column D for all the rows; select the row with the minimum value in column D, and delete the other rows.
For example:
A B C D
Row1: Abby 04/01/2014 7:00PM 0.98437
Row2: Sam 04/01/2014 9:00PM 0.35627
Row3: Abby 04/04/2014 7:00PM 0.68932[code]....
Original table:
Column1
Column2
Column3
Column4
AAA
DDD
A1
X123, Y123, Z123
[Code] .......
I have four different cell.
Cell a1 contains 6 digits
Cell a2 contains 1 digit
Cell a3 contains 6 digits
Cell a4 contains 4 digits.
Cells a3 and a4 may contain a number less than number of digits specified above but are custom formatted 000000 and 0000 respectively to ensure they have the correct number of digits. My problem is when I try to combine the four cells they lose their formatting. I have tried =A1&A2&A3&A4 and = concatenate(A1,A2,A3,A4). But both formulas loose the formatting from the individual cells.
I have a form made that needs to copy a value from another sheet. The Form is 10 rows 5 columns and and in format for easy print. On sheet2 I have a column where each row is filled with a name.
I need to put this name into sheet1, so in the the appropriate cell I put =Sheet2!B2 and it gives me the value (name) from the other sheet.
Then I want to copy the form bellow the 1st one so that I have the same form but with the next name, which means I want =Sheet2!B3 to appear when I copy, but since my form is 10 rows when I copy it the formula copies to =Sheet2!B12 instead of B3.
I need to make close to a thousand of this forms ready for printing and I would like to avoid having to manually set the formula for the next cell.
I've created a group of user forms used for recording jobs and displaying details of jobs and have come up against a problem I think you may be able to help me with.
When the user creates a new record, I've written some code to stamp txtdate text box with the current system date and this information is then copied onto a sheet called Data into a specific column.
This part works fine and as the column is formatted to handle dates it displays fine.
However, when I pull the data back in, it displays the date as the serial number date, not formatted as dd/mm/yy. I've tried every fix I can find to sort this but none of them seem to work.
The code I use to pull the data in is as follows:
ComboBox1.BoundColumn = 11
txtdate.Value = ComboBox1.Value
The idea is that the user selects a job number from combobox1 and then the appropriate column is pulled into each txt box on the form.
At the same time, I'm trying to do the same for the system time as well. Unsurprisingly I have a very similar problem here and use the same code as above. I've tried formatting both date and time txt boxes in the userform, the data transfer code etc etc with no success.
Version: Excel 2007 WinXP
I'm basically looking for something almost like an inverse function to INDIRECT. This function would first look at a cell's formula as a text string, parse out the first valid cell reference in A1 format, and return that cell as a text string.
Detail: I have a spreadsheet with cells that point to other values. I would like to get only the row number from the first cell reference in the formula residing in a given cell. For example:
Suppose A1 has the formula =AL267. and A2 has the formula =SUM(AL94:AL235)
I would like a formula in B1 that returns the text string, "AL267" so that I would know this is the first reference.
Ideally it could be dragged down to B2 such that it returns the text string "AL94" (and not "AL235") because AL94 is the first cell reference in A2's
Currently I am copying the formulas after hitting ctl+` and pasting that text into a text editor, followed by text operations to manipulate the results into the desired values. Any solution that didn't involve going out to notepad.
