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Excel - can I set a cell to equal a certain value, no matter what is typed in it?
This is to play a joke on someone...not sure if it's possible to do what I want. We are circulating an Excel file among friends to select players for a golf tournament. I would like to set a cell (...
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How to get the current column name in Excel?
What is the function to get the current line number and the current column name for a cell in Excel?
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Dynamically reference a Named Table Column (via cell content) in Excel
How do I reference an Excel table column dynamically in Excel 2007?
I want to reference a named column of a named table
and the referenced column will vary with the value of a cell.
I have a table in ...
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How do I get the =LEFT function in excel, to also take the number zero as the first number?
My data contains a column of room numbers. Each room number's first 2 digits is the floor number where the room is located. The =LEFT function works well for data that does not start with zero. The =...
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Microsoft-excel newlines and tab
Current I use "CONCATENATE" to join string in Excel, but I want insert character newlines and tab in string joined by "CONCATENATE".
Example:
I've string below when I completed join string.
"Today ...
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How to Merge Data From Multiple Excel Files into a Single Excel File or Access Database?
I have a few dozen excel files which are all of the same format (i.e. 4 worksheets per Excel file). I need to combine all the files into 1 master file which must have just 2 of the 4 worksheets. The ...
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How to generate random string from a set of available strings in Excel?
I want to generate a column which will have random string values in any order. Those string values have to be from ('New', 'Mint', 'Very Good', 'Good', 'Acceptable', 'Poor') strings? Can anyone let me ...
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How to combine values from multiple rows into a single row in Excel?
I have a data dump in Excel that consists of annual customer data for two different values. The data was provided with a separate row for value for every year and customer. I.e. it looks like this:
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When I copy table data into excel, it ONLY pastes it into column A! How to fix this?
If I use the following link:
http://web.utk.edu/~dhouston/excel/exam1.pdf
to copy the table and paste it into excel, it will only paste the values into one long column in Column A (and each row has ...
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Convert Text Value to Time Value in excel
I am trying to convert text to time. Basically I copy and pasted the total time of employees but it pastes as text value and then in order to add the time I have to convert it to time and I have to ...
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How can I turn a Calculated Column back into a data column in an Excel Table?
I have a large Excel Table (44 columns, 1000+ rows), but one of the columns has been accidentally turned into a Calculated Column (See Here). The result being that now when the users try to add new ...
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Subtracting cells only if they have a value in Excel
I want to subtract two cells in excel but only if both cells have a value. More specifiaclly in my case the formula in cell E2 is currently =D2-C2 but I only want this to be calculated when D2 has a ...
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Need a formula that looks at the first digit or letter in a cell
I have a column of numbers. Some begin with the digit 8 and the rest begin with other digits. I want to write a formula that will return "2" if the number in column A starts with 8, and "1" if the ...
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Exclude outliers from average calculation
I want to calculate the average of numbers given in Column A as shown in the figure below. But I want to base the average on values equal to or greater than 15 and equal to or less than 25, via the ...
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Conditional Formatting in excel based on another column
I have an excel worksheet and two columns. I highlight the first column if the value of the cells are less than 0.
Now how can I highlight the second column cells based on the first columns that are ...
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