If you can see only limited area of a worksheet 1. Check if the sheet is protected. This you check by going to Review tab and see if Unprotect Sheet Button is appearing. – If Unprotect Sheet Button is appearing sheet is protected. You need to click it and if password is asked, you need…
Category: Tips and Tricks
Tips & Tricks 65 – Show a Limited Area of Worksheet
You have a worksheet and you want to show only a limited area to users. Say you want them to see only A1:G50 and remaining you don't want to show them. Use following steps – 1. Click column H so that entire column is selected. Now CTRL+SHIFT+Right Arrow key so that all columns will get…
Tips & Tricks 64 – Show a 0 in place of Blanks in Pivot Table
When you create a pivot table and if a source cell has no value (i.e. cell is blank), in pivot table, it will show a blank. All other results in pivot table are carrying numeric values and you see blanks. It is odd though it doesn't impact the results. But you still prefer to show this…
Tips & Tricks 63 – Short Cut Key for Opening Goto Special Dialog Box
Remember EGS (EGGS with one G missing) Just Press ALT and hold it. Now Press E and leave it, then press G and leave it and then press S and leave S as well as ALT. And you will have Goto Special Dialog Box.
Tips & Tricks 62 – Set the Scroll Area of a Worksheet
If you want to set a scroll area in a worksheet, for example A1:G50. User will not be able scroll beyond row 50 and column G. To do this – 1. Right Click on a Sheet tab and click View Code. OR Press ALT+F11. Now VBE Editor will open. 2. Set A1:G50 in Scroll Area…
Tips & Tricks 61 – Roman Representation of Numbers
Use ROMAN function. Hence ROMAN(56) will give LVI. ROMAN works only for numbers 1 to 3999.
Tips & Tricks 60 – Remove numbers from string
To remove numbers from a string (for example Vij1aY A. V4er7ma8 contains numbers which are not required), we can use nested SUBSTITUTE function to remove numbers. Use below formula assuming string is in A1 cell – =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( A1,1,""),2,""),3,""),4,""),5,""),6,""),7,""),8,""),9,""),0,"") Note – Since this formula is in multiple lines, hence you will have to copy this…
Tips & Tricks 59 – Remove Comments from All Sheets in a Workbook
In an earlier tip, I talked about how to remove all comments from a sheet. But that works on a sheet. If you want to remove from all sheets in one go rather than doing for every sheet separately, use following trick – 1. Office Button > Prepare > Inspect Document 2. A warning message…
Tips & Tricks 58 – Remove Alphabets from a String
If your string is in cell A1, use following formula to remove all alphabets from a string =SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( SUBSTITUTE(LOWER(A1),"a",""),"b",""),"c",""),"d",""),"e",""),"f",""), "g",""),"h",""),"i",""),"j",""),"k",""),"l",""),"m",""),"n",""),"o",""), "p",""),"q",""),"r",""),"s",""),"t",""),"u",""),"v",""),"w",""),"x",""),"y",""),"z","")
Tips & Tricks 57 – Remove All Comments from a Sheet
1. Home Tab > Find and Select > Comments – This will select all the cells where comments are there. 2. Home Tab > Clear > Clear Comments – This will clear all comments from the sheet