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  • Code Tags?

    I couldn't find reference to it anywhere else... Is it not possible to have a button on the comment textbox toolbar to format VBA code? I'm thinking of something like on DDoE (colour highlight, monospaced), but not necessarily in the frame.
    Posted to Site Problems (Forum) by Rick Williams on Tue, Aug 17 2010
  • Long numbers converts from texts to scientific when copied from 2007 to 2003

    Our shop is in transition from excel 2003 to 2007. When we copy long numeric values from Excel 2007 into 2003 the data displays fine at first but when we format the data to text it displays as scientific. How can I convert the data in 2003 to text and have it not display the scientific format?
    Posted to General (Forum) by Susan Lugent on Fri, Aug 13 2010
  • Wrapping Text in a Text Box

    Hi Everyone, I am an average Excel user using 2007. I am trying to type text in a text box such that I place text in the the 1st line, skip a few lines by hitting the <ENTER> key, then add my next line of text. The problem is when I hit the <ENTER> key, nothing happens. Also, if I hit the...
    Posted to Excel 2007 (Forum) by Viper on Wed, Aug 4 2010
  • Print issues with Excel 2007

    Was just upgraded to Excel2007 from Excel 2003. When I try to print any file created in Excel 2003 that has a pic/text box/ chart or any other object in the workbook it prints out of alignment(pics on text, text box/pics in different locations. It looks fine on the screen but when you print or print...
    Posted to Excel 2007 (Forum) by Jerry on Mon, Jan 4 2010
  • Re: Can't set header margins

    Yes, that's what I do to. I adjust the column width and get reasonable alighment. Must be a bug in the program!! I also experience the problem that when I'm in page layout, I can't always select a singe cell. The program selects a group of cells or rows when I click a cell. It drives me crasy...
    Posted to Excel 2007 (Forum) by john on Tue, Oct 6 2009
  • Excel Explosion and alternate shading to every other line

    I used Excel Explosion and created several files from my dataset. I selected the option to add alternate shading to every other line on the output. I've asked users to highlight changes that they've made to the file before sending back to me. The shaded cells won't allow a new fill color...
    Posted to General (Forum) by Linda Berardo on Tue, Mar 31 2009
  • ??? is there a way (function?) to store a number gained by calucalations into another cell where it is stored as a number free of calculations

    I use Excel in real estate and personal goal setting and run into questions that aren't evident to me.. like 'how to get around circular formula errors .. pair prior ttl today run ttl pair prior ttl total run ttl A/U 100 10 110 E/U 10 7 17 G/U 50 2 52 N/U 10 8 18 E/G 200 3 203 U/C 10 9 19 E/C...
    Posted to General (Forum) by caladdin on Mon, Jul 28 2008
  • Re: How to disable auto format

    Ali You could import it as text (*.txt or no extension at all) and using the wizard mark the columns you wish to hold as there exact representation as text (it's the third step). Then to convert those to numbers with the correct number of decimals you could read each cell, find the period and then...
    Posted to General (Forum) by Nick Hodge on Thu, May 8 2008
  • custom number formats

    This is probably an easy one for all of you... I have been creating a custom number format on new excel files almost daily. I want to create the format and save it so that the format comes up every time I open excel and start a new spreadsheet, just like the built-in formats. How do I keep the format...
    Posted to General (Forum) by Chiara on Mon, Apr 28 2008
  • Auto Format option in excel

    Team I am having problem in Excel when it do the auto format. I have a text file which has the following data which are tab separated value Name Date Amount1 Portion XXX 12-5-2008 11.25 10/25 When i load this text file into excel.(By changing the extension from .txt to .xls) It convert 11.25 to 25-Nov...
    Posted to General (Forum) by subhakarthi on Fri, Apr 25 2008
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