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Is it possible to use alt-XYZ shortcuts on Excel on OS X?
I don't want to know the equivalents -- I want to use the same commands. I'm switching between windows at work and a mac at home.
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Prevent Excel from converting text to columns
When I'm using Excel to parse multiple documents, and I need to control the import (Text, not General, on column import settings being the most notable example), how can I prevent Excel from ...
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Find out which cells got updated in Excel [closed]
I have an Excel spreadsheet that calculates some relative dates. At one point I put in some TODAY() formulae in various cells to update the dates automatically. Some other cells that refer to this ...
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Finding duplicate rows in excel gets partial matches, need only full matches
I'm using Excel 2011 for mac, trying to highlight rows that are full duplicates. Using the conditional formatting options is highlighting partial matches, I only want it to highlight the row if all ...
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Keyboard Shortcut to Fit Column Width to Text in Mac Excel?
I know this on a PC. It is Alt+O,C,A, as explained in this question.
Can someone tell me please what the keyboard shortcut is to fit the column width to the width of the text in Excel on a Mac?
I'm ...
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Excel - Sum First Value Of Non-Unique Adjacent Column
I have a table:
ColA | ColB
1 1
2 1
2 1
3 1
4 1
5 1
I would like to sum ColB only once where ColA = 2.
Essentially, I would like to sum the values ...
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What is the best way to create charts of “database-style” tables and data in Excel?
I'm a biologist and I frequently have to do analysis on relatively large (for Excel) datasets. Usually a few charts are needed to display the data, but creating them seems to require laying out out ...
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Create a form as a worksheet in Excel that adds records to another worksheet
I am trying to create a form in Excel for vehicle requests. What I want to happen is to create one worksheet that is a recreation of the current paper form, but have a clickable button that will ...
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HLOOKUP Return Greatest Value
I have some columns A, B, C, D, E, F, G with some values in the rows below 2, 3, 4. I don't know if HLOOKUP is the correct answer for what I am trying to do but I want to have a function that looks at ...
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Why does my conditional SUM not work?
I am Using Excel 2011 for Mac and am having a hard time figuring out a way to return some data that I need.
I have a sheet with a table, column D is "Type" and column H has numbers. I want one cell ...
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Formula to move data from every third row to a column?
I have an excel sheet (mac, Excel 2011) that contains names (1st row), job titles (2nd row), and company/institution (3rd row) in one big column. I am trying to separate them into three different ...
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Excel chart with year-to-year comparison
Given this data:
Date Year Month Usage (Kw-h) Cost/Month
02/19/08 2008 2 501 59.13
03/18/08 2008 3 404 48.49
04/16/08 2008 4 387 45.67
05/22/08 2008 5 319 ...
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How to get the list of sheet names of ms-excel?
I have an excel file which has a lot of sheets. How could I get a list of sheet names of ms-excel?
(PS: The office is mac version.)
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Using Mac Excel, how can I delete partial duplicate rows?
I'm running Mac Office 2011 under Lion.
I have a sheet of many thousands of rows of data, with a good 40 or 50 columns. One column is email address. If any two rows have a duplicate email address, ...
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Excel Sheet Link [closed]
I'm doing a dissertation of 17000 words, and I have a huge file of more than 400 pages in excel So how I can put all the excel work in one link in words or another program.
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How to create excel line charts with irregular scales
I am trying to create a line graph, The vertical axis is an irregular scale - 1,1c,1b,1a,2,2c,2b,2a and so on.
Here is the data in chart format
I am having trouble representing this data in the ...
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Show date format in Excel as the OS default
Is there a way in Excel (2007 and up) to set the date format of a column to the date format of the OS locales. The data entered in this column is a date (imported from a database date field).
For ...
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duplicating a row in excel
i have a large financial spreadsheet with a ton of formulae. i'd like to duplicate a row such that it retains the same formula and coordinates as the source row (basically duplicate a summary row and ...
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How to setup a CSV web datasource
In Excel, I can import a CSV from the web as text by simply pasting in the URL as a file name, but when I ask Excel to update, it has stripped the URL and tries to find a file on the local hard drive ...
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Excel 2011 for Mac VLOOKUP Date Issue
I'm fairly proficient in using vlookups, but I'm having an issue vlooking up dates between two different spreadsheets.
=VLOOKUP(B6,'[example.xlsx]Sheet1'!$B$1:$AA$260, 19, FALSE)
My formula is ...
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Error message when trying to retrieve a value from a range using VLOOKUP
I've got an excel spreadsheet where I would normally use a VLOOKUP.
In this case I need to find the ID of the record when comparing email addresses, so the email address is the unique id here.
For ...
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How come I can only forecast a trendline 5 periods backwards, while I can forecast it 1000+ forward?
It doesn't make any sense. I can do it in Excel 2010 on Windows, but not Excel 2011 on OS X.
Workbook I used: http://cl.ly/Ewfe
Screenie:
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How to return first non-blank cell and if it's already a value before it, return the third non-blank and so on?
How to make a function which would return the first non-blank cell value but if it's defined in the left cells next to it, it would jump 2 cells and look for the next value.
Table:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ...
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Highlight Excel spreadsheet cells every three days
I use Excel 2011 on OS X to track down my tasks list.
Now I would like to add a date cell to some tasks so that every three days these tasks get highlighted. My question is if there is any way so ...
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Can I disable Excel's warning when saving CSV files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Excel: Is there a registry setting to suppress the warning messages when saving spreadsheets in CSV format?
Excel always says
...may contain features that are not ...
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Linking a cell to a tab within an Excel workbook
I'm using Microsoft Excel 2011. One of my workbooks contains a tab. I want that tab to open when I click a link. The link should be in a cell in the same workbook. How can I create such a link?
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How can I get Excel 2011 to stop opening my Personal Macro Workbook?
Ever since I created a couple of macros in Excel for Mac 2011, the Personal Macro Workbook opens every time I open Excel. How do I keep that from happening?
I have since deleted the macros, but I ...
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How can I sort by word/token in Excel 2011
Is it possible to sort a spreadsheet based on if a word is contained in cells within a column?
Like if I take the "title" column and sort, keeping the rows connected, to bring all the rows with a ...
