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Formula to copy a specific character from one cell to another

I am using MS query to pull in data. I need to create a column that copies the first character in another column. For example: Cell A1 - E00633 Cell A2 - B00842 Cell B1 - I want this cell to ...
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Export Office Excel table to csv using a macro

I'm using Excel Tables in Excel 2010. I would like to quickly export the contents of these tables to *.csv. My current workflow: 1. Select table manually 2. Copy the contents into a new workbook ...
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Can I force MS Excel table column to use the specified pattern?

I need to develop a tool that enforces strict format of some table. The fields in this table follow specified patterns like number:number (11:20. 2:00), agreed date (11/20/2012 but not ...
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How to extract unique data from cells in a single column with thousands of similar values?

I have a single column in an Excel sheet with around 25,000 cells (numbers). Most of them are identical that in the end there are only - I guess - maybe 200 different numbers. Is there a way to ...
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Excel List: How to Populate a column function of several others looping until a value is found

I'm using Excel 2010, I have a mysql query that populate a list. I think my scenario is quite classic. In one column I have a label: SPEC, SWD, PRD, CLOSURE... etc Then I have 10 columns that have ...
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How to copy an unformatted table into excel?

I want to copy the following table http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/classic/awards/01/36/25/40/ballondor_award_men_player_finalx.pdf into excel but when I do it doesn't format it as a table as the ...
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Excel file links through SharePoint

I'm working for a small company which manages it's knowledge throughout Excel files. Some of the files contain data from other files, for example our orders file contains products that are saved in ...
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Excel Statistical Table

I am trying to create a statistical table based on columns of information. The row/column identifiers of the table are also incorporated in part of the statistics of the table. I have three columns of ...
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getting data from several columns in a record

I have excel sheet contains the following table: I want to get the last recent DATE with its LAB Result?
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Excel 2010: How can I obtain a one-to-many rows table by merging duplicated cells in a large normalized table?

As I am a newbie when it comes to Excel (and the entire Microsoft Office suite, to be honest), I spent a lot of time browsing for a solution to this issue - how to get a one-to-many rows table out of ...
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How do I group rows in a table by one column's value in Excel?

I have a table of data (5000+ rows) with two columns, ID and value. It may look like this: ID Value 01 02 01 03 01 17 02 05 03 06 03 28 What I want to do is find the average value for each ID. ...
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Excel 2010: Do sortable tables support sorting within multiple columns?

In Excel 2010 (and perhaps recent versions), you can select a range of data and insert a table over it that adds user-friendly sorting capabilities to the data. However, it appears that it doesn't ...
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Extracting Excel-published tables from a PDF document

I'd like to copy Tables 1,2, and 3 found at the bottom of this PDF file: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/03-13-Coverage%20Estimates.pdf into Excel. I've tried Copy+Paste ...
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Use Excel Table Column in ComboBox Input Range property

I asked this in StackOverflow and was redirected here. Apologies for redundancy. I have an Excel worksheet with a combo box on Sheet1 that is populated via its Input Range property from a Dynamic ...
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Cut in excel doesn't work, and copying tables from one program to another returns text [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why does cutting a cell in Excel not work properly? My excel 2007 on Windows 7 operating system seems to have a probelm with regular cut function. when I highlight cells ...
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Excel table - delete rows not in filter

i have a very large table in excel (1000's of rows) and i filter it to only show 10 rows. I wonder if there is a way to delete the rows not shown [ ie dont meet filter conditions]? this would enable ...
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Prompt to select excel spreadsheets in Access?

I have a Microsoft Access 2007 database that uses excel spreadsheets to track changes between the two. A new file is generated every week. I then do a compare against the two of them with some custom ...
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How to reference a row value in a table in excel 2007 from another row such that sorting table doesn't change it?

Consider a table of employee name, age and employee manager. Employee manager is a reference to employee name in same table but different row. I tried this by referencing cell =A3 Now if I sort ...
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How to paste table from MS Excel to Wolfram Mathematica?

When I am pasting a region from MS Excel, which contains multiple numbers, to Mathematica, I am getting just a long plain sequence of digits, i.e. one integer number in Mathematica. How to have a ...
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What is the best way to manually edit and update data within a large table in MS SQL Server?

I have a table in MS SQL server which currently has around 800 records and 20 columns. I want to manually update and add to the information within this table on a frequent basis. Would exporting the ...
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Filter and reorder columns in Excel

I've got a service (phplist, a newsletter manager) that exports a user list with several fields. At the end of it, each user has one or more lists to which he has subscribed. The problem is, that ...
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Excel: text values in a pivot table?

I have a table (in MySQL) with 3 columns: Location Category Supplier A Computers Company X A Printers Company Y B Computers Company X B ...
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PowerPoint 2007: Setting custom cell margins causes text to display as if centered

I'm using PowerPoint 2007 and have pasted in a table from Excel 2007. When I paste it in it automatically becomes a PowerPoint table, and looks fine. However, everything is quite squashed together, so ...
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Dates not recognized as dates in pivot table pulling directly from SQL Server

My pivot pulls from an external data source with a date column. Excel doesn't see this column as a date and the 'Format Cells' option panel doesn't change how the dates are displayed. The cell data is ...
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Is is possible to apply separate formatting to multiple different Excel table columns?

I have some calculated columns in an Excel (2007) table. I'd like to distinguish them visually from the user-input columns in some way, but without losing the nifty automatic row banding. It looks ...
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How to use excel to disply a list of cells, depending on dropdown box selection

What I want to achieve: select list A, B or C from a dropdown, when pressed, list of values displays underneath. I would also like the list to be populated from items in a table (which would have ...
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Exporting a subset of an Excel sheet as a (clean) HTML tab

I have an Excel sheet with several sheets and containing quite a few tables of information which are really intended to be published on a common wiki at my company. Previously, we used to use ...
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Is there a way to give an Excel table a name that is worksheet-scoped instead of workbook-scoped?

When you create a table in Excel (I'm using Excel 2007) you can give it a name that shows up in the Name Manager dialog. However, the name has workbook scope. I'd like to have a table with a name ...
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Excel: lock sheet, but keep tables expandable

My goal is to protect a sheet, but make users able to edit and add rows to the contained tables. When I try to protect the sheet with no cells locked, the tables become unable to add rows even though ...
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Table Formatting in Excel 2007: How do I remove it?

I've used the new Table Formatting option in Excel 2007. Now I can't remove it. I've dragged the little blue square up to the last cell on the top left, but it just won't go any further. In fact it ...
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long table in excel - how to produce stats for subtables?

(new to excel - ) say I have a table with columns A = {1..5}, B = {a..e} and Score = Number. I want to produce a new table that would display statistics for each A,B combination, e.g. A B Mean ...
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Excel cell references not updating when referenced cells are sorted

There are two tables, each with 75 entries. Each entry in the 2nd table calls an entry in the first table a parent. One of my 2nd table columns contains the "Parent Price", referencing the Price ...
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What's the difference between a Table and a Named Range in Excel 2007?

Can someone explain the difference between Tables and Named Ranges in Excel 2007? It seems that in addition to having the features of Named Ranges, they're somehow marked as Tables which gives them ...
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Resources about Excel tables and structured references?

I'm new to Excel-post-2000, and I'd like to learn more about how to use tables (formerly lists) and structured references. Can anyone point me to some good treatments of this topic that go beyond the ...
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What is lookup tables in excel?

I have the below entry when i go to the insert > name > Define name ='Lookup Tables'!$I$29:$I$65 what does it mean ?