Questions tagged [column]
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Excel Discrete column-wise selection from area
I'd like to be able to select an area column-wise (as individual columns). Manually holding down CTRL works fine for a few columns but when you've got 200 to select it becomes tedious. I'd like to be ...
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How do I indicate nested data groups side-by-side in an Excel stacked column chart?
I am preparing a chart for an academic journal and am struggling with formatting.
In the original chart I am trying to reproduce, nested data for two year periods, 2017 and 2020/21, are displayed ...
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Excel Sortby formula on alpha numerics e.g. A1 to A100 to return 4 rows of associated data
I have used this formula to sort the column A1 to A100 so that A
=SORTBY(A1:A206,COLUMN(INDIRECT(A1:A206)),1,ROW(INDIRECT(A1:A206)),1)
thanks to one of your posts: Advanced sorting of alphanumeric ...
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MS Excel Convert column data into row
I have all data in a column in MS excel.
Please see the attached picture: .
I am trying to covert data with its corresponding heading and other data associated with its "Acct No.". as sample ...
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MS Outlook Sortable User-defined Columns
In response to the question "How do I get rid of the "External" label in Outlook?", user Lilienthal posted a response on Jan 20, 2023 by creating a custom column using the formula ...
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column -x: how to specify the number of columns?
For column -x, how to specify the number of columns (say, 4)?
Is it possible at all?
Extra: from man column:
-x, --fillrows
Fill rows before filling columns.
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Windows Explorer: change default columns of the media-variant set of columns (photos, videos...)
When a folder contains photos and videos, explorer switches automatically which columns are displayed. I'm not questioning here whether I like the feature or not, so let's assume I liked that feature.
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How to create a stacked column chart where each category has unrelated subcategories
I have the following set of data
I want to create a column chart with 3 stacked columns(one for each category). The sum of amounts for each category equals 100. The issue I'm having is that the ...
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Word: Autonumbering IF other column not empty
I am at a little loss currently.
I simply want word (MacOSX) to auto number in column two (See picture attached) if there is text in column three.
My Table is basically one line with four columns ...
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How do I extract a single list of 3D spatial coordinates across 2 different sheets that link the 3 cartesian planes?
I am using Excel to draw an ellipsoid that is rotated by 15 degrees. What I want is not a 3D plot of it, but I want to get a list of all the coordinates that share a certain criteria. An example is ...
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How to add additional column types in Windows Explorer's column quick menu permanently? [duplicate]
I want to add some useful column types in the quick menu of Windows Explorer to not go through very long and bothersome process of scrolling through thousands of types in Choose Details window.
I want ...
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Excel Formula that copys Column Title based off related data within row
I am looking for a formula to represent what is in the highlighted section of the excel sheet. For example, for invoice 4/1/2022, i would like a formula for "payable for" that lists (1)...
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Different text column shading in MS Word
I'm trying to shade columns in different colors but just can't make it.
It's either that last line of one column is part of the next paragraph, so it picks up the color of the next column:
Or it's ...
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How to tell Outlook not to auto resize the columns of a table
I'm having a very frustrating experience with MS-Outlook, while creating a table inside an e-mail:
I have some text, separated by pipe characters, and I've chosen the "Convert text to table" ...
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How do I use a cell reference as a column in a table reference?
Say I have a table "Data" (created with the "Format as table" button, with headers). In another table (say "Table"), I have a column ("Target column") that has ...
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What is the strongest means to force MS Word to not underrun a minimum table column width
As is generally known, desired column widths in a Word table can be set in the table properties individually for each column in centimeters or percent:
However, experience shows that Word does not ...
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Split one excel column with data separated by comma into many columns
I am using a program called FilterPro to design an electronic filter. The filter has some associated data, which you can export to Excel. In FilterPro the data looks like this, where they use a ...
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highlight row with different colors after date is entered in different column cells
We have a spreadsheet that tracks items by date in different columns. Item sent in column L, we would like it to be one color. but once the second date in entered column R. I am needing the row to ...
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How to fill a column getting a substring of another one with a rule
I'm trying to play with the functions LEFT, RIGHT and SEARCH to fill a column with the name of a function extracted from another column, but I don't get any good result.
I have a list of functions ...
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Mixing 2 columns in excel
Good Morning
I'm trying to "combine" two columns in Excel. Not concatenating them, but "mixing" the result
For example, I have these 2 columns:
Column 1
Column 2
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1
b
2
c
3
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Win10 Explorer Dimension Column Blank
Just noticed that my explorer in Windows 10 doesn't show the dimensions of my images or videos anymore.
Explorer Example:
I remember having the Width, Height and Dimension columns working before but ...
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How can I set the column width on a given column in multiple opened Excel files at once?
I have 10 opened Excel files. Each of them contains one spreadsheet. How can I set the column width on a given column in multiple opened Excel files at once? I use Excel 2205 on Microsoft Windows 10.
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Notepad- Select only one column
I want to select only one column in my txt file. This is the sample of my file, its contain about 15k line i only want to select date column how i change a copy paste only on column...
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Why doesn't the left column come down in ms word 2016?
I want the left column to be full.
Why does the left column not come down? Any Suggestions?
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How create increment column in visidata from a set value, not for 1?
If I have I frame with 10 rows, and I create a new column with za and then use gi I get a range column from 1 to 10, but instead of that I want to get a range column from 15 to 25.
How can I get that?
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Excel - How to combine columns (without concatenating them) from multiple files
I have multiple CSV files, each containing several columns, but only one of interest, column B. It's a column whose header is "Results" and each row in the column contains numeric data.
For ...
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Pivot calculated field of variation
I want to create a pivot graph that shows the variation (%) in number of road accidents from year to year+1. I need it to be pivot because I want it to be refreshable if data change.
My data is a list ...
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Excel Pivot Table - Change Columns using Filter
I have a pivot table and values separated by a signal flag (0 or 1). I many different signal types (columns) to use.
Question: Instead of creating a new pivot table for each signal, is there a '...
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List.Sum in Power Query is not ignoring null values
I added a column with this code:
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Total Quantity", each List.Sum(
{[species_males]+[#"species_females-mixed"]
}))
List.Sum is ...
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Turning a string of text into individual rows [closed]
I have a series of letters in Excel I would like to turn into individual rows. Is there a simple command to do this instead of using text to column and separating through each one.
The list is as ...
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