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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1500 on: August 08, 2021, 11:47:53 PM »
will it not print the background?

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1501 on: August 08, 2021, 11:53:13 PM »
The real way to do this would be to insert the picture in the Header (with Text Wrap set to Behind Text) and then print with a code like the one here https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/word/5453-word-print-without-header-and-footer.html

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1502 on: August 08, 2021, 11:54:05 PM »
will it not print the background?
It will if you keep it there. The idea was to set up the text boxes on top of the image where you want it to be filled in. Then just delete the image and use it as a template. Basically the same thing as what yo ssi was saying
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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1503 on: August 09, 2021, 12:07:04 AM »
what I did until now, was, I wrote the words in the place I thought they belonged. Then I printed it, and adjusted where needed, after a few tries it was good.
I just thought that with todays' software, there is prob a better ore effective way, looks like there isn't.

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1504 on: February 02, 2022, 12:59:39 PM »
Withiut VBA, can I Auto complete text in a drop down list cell.
I used data validation to create my drop down list.
We have over 300 items to enter.

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1505 on: February 02, 2022, 01:04:27 PM »
Withiut VBA, can I Auto complete text in a drop down list cell.
I used data validation to create my drop down list.
We have over 300 items to enter.
Try this:
https://superuser.com/questions/1419626/how-can-i-add-autocomplete-to-an-excel-drop-down-validation

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1506 on: February 02, 2022, 01:30:05 PM »
Thank you.
Problem is need to always create a new combo box

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1507 on: February 02, 2022, 06:07:58 PM »
Withiut VBA, can I Auto complete text in a drop down list cell.
I used data validation to create my drop down list.
We have over 300 items to enter.

Just announced 2 days ago. They're rolling it out slowly.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/speed-up-data-entry-and-validation-with-autocomplete-for/ba-p/3072083

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1508 on: February 03, 2022, 12:24:55 PM »

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1509 on: February 03, 2022, 12:30:40 PM »
Excel saved a list of tracking numbers in scientific notation. when i convert back to a regular number the last 6 digits are all 000000. Anyway to get that data back?

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1510 on: February 03, 2022, 04:00:59 PM »
Excel saved a list of tracking numbers in scientific notation. when i convert back to a regular number the last 6 digits are all 000000. Anyway to get that data back?
If you still have the original before you converted it change it to text.

I wonder if Ctrl z would work too
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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1511 on: February 03, 2022, 04:15:56 PM »
If you still have the original before you converted it change it to text.

I wonder if Ctrl z would work too
i don't have access to it but BH when i opened it sheets, the data was there

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1512 on: February 06, 2022, 12:21:40 PM »
i don't have access to it but BH when i opened it sheets, the data was there

In the future if you put a single apostrophe (') in front of a tracking number or a zip or anything with a potential leading 0, it'll prevent excel from messing with the number

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1513 on: February 06, 2022, 02:04:05 PM »
In the future if you put a single apostrophe (') in front of a tracking number or a zip or anything with a potential leading 0, it'll prevent excel from messing with the number


Thanks,
Vegetables that's what I do but this was a long list of numbers I imported

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1514 on: February 06, 2022, 03:49:27 PM »

Thanks,
Vegetables that's what I do but this was a long list of numbers I imported

Paste values into columns formatted as text.
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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1515 on: February 08, 2022, 02:20:03 PM »
What would be the formulta if I wanted to Excel to:
I have data coming into Excel from another cell and I wanted to add or subtract based on that number.

For example: if the incoming number is below 5 I want Excel to subtract the incoming number by 5 (for example incoming number is 2 so Excel should subtract 5-2), if the incoming number is above 5 ( for example incoming number is 7 so Excel should add 5+7) I want it to add the incoming number.

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1516 on: February 08, 2022, 02:24:59 PM »
What would be the formulta if I wanted to Excel to:
I have data coming into Excel from another cell and I wanted to add or subtract based on that number.

For example: if the incoming number is below 5 I want Excel to subtract the incoming number by 5 (for example incoming number is 2 so Excel should subtract 5-2), if the incoming number is above 5 ( for example incoming number is 7 so Excel should add 5+7) I want it to add the incoming number.

You'd have to specify what you want if it equals 5. But =if(a2>5,b2-a2,b2+a2) something like that. A2 would be the incoming number, b2 is the number you would be adding or subtracting it from
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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1517 on: February 08, 2022, 02:27:28 PM »
Question: recently, I've been using flash fill, and the equation fills out correctly but the number appears as a copy of the first cell. If I save the file, the numbers are corrected, matching the equation. Any idea what's happening?
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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1518 on: February 08, 2022, 03:43:05 PM »
Question: recently, I've been using flash fill, and the equation fills out correctly but the number appears as a copy of the first cell. If I save the file, the numbers are corrected, matching the equation. Any idea what's happening?
You probably have calc on manual, and when you save it recalculates.

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Re: Excel Help and Problems
« Reply #1519 on: March 30, 2022, 02:27:18 PM »
If anyone can help me with a simple conditional formatting I'd really appreciate it. I'm trying to compare two lists and highlight cells in column 1 that also appear in the list on sheet 2. Tried google and for some reason it is not working.