This article was long pending after I wrote Covert Number Format into Text Format. This post essentially deals with the fact that if a cell has number in text format, how to convert that value into Number format so that it becomes usable for calculations and for other purposes. (Exclusion – If a number has…
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
Tips & Tricks 56 – Rank within the Groups
Suppose your have data like below table and you want to know rank of students. You will simple put following formula in D2 =RANK(C2,C2:C100) But what if you are asked to produce rank of students within each school. Hence, every school's rank will start with 1.. Put following formula in D2 for that case for…
Tips & Tricks 55 – Quickly Fill in Cells with Dates from M to N
1. Put the start date in the cell where you want your first date to be. Let's put 6/1/14 as an example. 2. Select that Cell and in Home Tab, go to Fill and Select Series 3. Select Series in Columns if you want Column to be populated (Most likely case). Put End Date in in stop…
Tips & Tricks 54 – Quickly Apply Thousand Separator in Cell with Two Decimal Places
You have a number 123456789 and you quickly want to apply Thousand Separator Custom Format with Two Decimal Places. Hence, you are seeking an answer of 123,456,789.00. Excel has already provided a short cut to do the same – CTRL+SHIFT+!
Tips & Tricks 53 – Print Comments in the Sheet
1. You need to show the comments which you want to print or you can show all comments in the sheet. To show the comments Show Comments in the Sheet 2. First step is mandatory for printing the comments. Only those comments will be printed which are shown in the sheet. 3. ALT+PSP 4. After…
Tips & Tricks 52 – Show Comments in the Sheet
1. If you want to show all comments in the sheet – 1.1 Go to Review tab and click on Show All Comments. 2. If you want to show selected few comments (not all) in the sheet – 2.1 Click a cell where the comment is. 2.2 Go to Review tab and click on Show / Hide…
Tips & Tricks 51 – Not able to see few rows / columns what to do
There are two possibilities – 1. Those rows (columns) are hidden. 2. Rows (columns) width is very small. To uncover them – 1. Press CTRL+A to select entire sheet. 2. Double click on white line joining two numbers for row (two column alphabets in case of columns) and all these rows (columns) will be uncovered….