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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #680 on: December 09, 2016, 10:52:17 AM »
how do I fix my date format within a pivot table to short date??
In the pivot table set up on the right, click on the field that you want to change, in this case date.

Choose the last option, field settings.

On the left of the "OK" sign, click "Number Format"

Then choose from the categories and the options to the format that you want.

Hope that helps.

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #681 on: December 09, 2016, 02:08:37 PM »


In the pivot table set up on the right, click on the field that you want to change, in this case date.

Choose the last option, field settings.

On the left of the "OK" sign, click "Number Format"

Then choose from the categories and the options to the format that you want.

Hope that helps.

It doesn't help..

It doesn't have number format for date

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #682 on: December 10, 2016, 09:27:05 PM »
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #683 on: December 10, 2016, 09:28:31 PM »
2nd post.
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #684 on: December 10, 2016, 09:30:54 PM »
2nd post.
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Google it. You can learn it easily yourself

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #685 on: December 10, 2016, 09:35:39 PM »
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #686 on: December 10, 2016, 09:56:54 PM »
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #687 on: December 10, 2016, 11:28:59 PM »
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #688 on: December 11, 2016, 12:51:35 AM »
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Next level vlookup is index match... Giyf

What's next level pivot? Power pivot? Stay away from that imho... Scary stuff :)

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #689 on: December 11, 2016, 11:28:39 AM »
Next level vlookup is index match... Giyf

What's next level pivot? Power pivot? Stay away from that imho... Scary stuff :)
I have a relative who got into power pivot... never heard from him again.

Which is to say that when he starts talking my ear off about power pivot I'm forced to tune him out. ;D

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #690 on: December 12, 2016, 10:22:05 AM »
Can someone explain how this formula is working? I believe it is being used to return the smallest value in column E.

=LOOKUP(2,1/(E:E<>""),E:E)

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #691 on: December 12, 2016, 10:36:06 AM »
Can someone explain how this formula is working? I believe it is being used to return the smallest value in column E.

=LOOKUP(2,1/(E:E<>""),E:E)
Seems to me that it returns the contents of the last cell in the column that is not blank.

The 3 arguments of the function are the lookup value, the lookup vector, and the result vector. So basically we're transforming column E, looking for the value 2 in that transformed vector, and returning the actual value in column E that corresponds to the position we found 2 in the transformed vector. The transformation is basically replacing all non-blank cells with the value 1, and all blank cells with an error. Then, when it looks in that transformed vector for the value 2, it doesn't find it, and instead returns the last position that has a 1 (ie the last non-blank cell).

As far as how the transformation works, E:E<>"" creates a TRUE/FALSE vector for whether each cell is non-blank. 1/ that vector converts the TRUE's into 1's, and the FALSE's into errors. If you'd used * instead of /, you'd get 0's for the FALSE's, and the formula would always return 0.

ETA: After typing all that out, I just googled my description in the first sentence and found this - https://exceljet.net/formula/get-value-of-last-non-empty-cell.

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #692 on: December 12, 2016, 10:42:30 AM »
Seems to me that it returns the contents of the last cell in the column that is not blank.

The 3 arguments of the function are the lookup value, the lookup vector, and the result vector. So basically we're transforming column E, looking for the value 2 in that transformed vector, and returning the actual value in column E that corresponds to the position we found 2 in the transformed vector. The transformation is basically replacing all non-blank cells with the value 1, and all blank cells with an error. Then, when it looks in that transformed vector for the value 2, it doesn't find it, and instead returns the last position that has a 1 (ie the last non-blank cell).

As far as how the transformation works, E:E<>"" creates a TRUE/FALSE vector for whether each cell is non-blank. 1/ that vector converts the TRUE's into 1's, and the FALSE's into errors. If you'd used * instead of /, you'd get 0's for the FALSE's, and the formula would always return 0.

ETA: After typing all that out, I just googled my description in the first sentence and found this - https://exceljet.net/formula/get-value-of-last-non-empty-cell.
Ok thanks. Google is great too, I should try it more.  :)

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #693 on: December 26, 2016, 10:08:25 AM »
I have two different files. One has worksheets A/B/C and the other has D/E/F. How do I make one file to look at all the worksheets?
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #694 on: December 26, 2016, 10:19:28 AM »
I have two different files. One has worksheets A/B/C and the other has D/E/F. How do I make one file to look at all the worksheets?

Are you saying file 3 to look at file 1 (ABC) and file 2 (DEF) or file 1 to look at file 2 and vice versa?

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #695 on: December 26, 2016, 10:59:22 AM »
File first.xls has three tabs (worksheets?) a/b/c. File second.xls has three tabs d/e/f. I want one file where I can click on any of the six tabs. I need to move or combine them somehow. Hope this is clearer.
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #696 on: December 26, 2016, 11:02:25 AM »
File first.xls has three tabs (worksheets?) a/b/c. File second.xls has three tabs d/e/f. I want one file where I can click on any of the six tabs. I need to move or combine them somehow. Hope this is clearer.

Have both of them open.

Highlight the tab(s) that you want to move (by holding down shift and clicking the first and last one - assuming they are in order. If they aren't in order, then hold ctrl and click each one) then right click on one of them and select "move or copy"

A pop up box will appear asking where you would like to move them to and whether you'd like to move them, or just copy them.

Make your selections and hit OK.

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #697 on: December 26, 2016, 11:41:28 AM »
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #698 on: December 27, 2016, 11:12:03 PM »
Have both of them open.

Highlight the tab(s) that you want to move (by holding down shift and clicking the first and last one - assuming they are in order. If they aren't in order, then hold ctrl and click each one) then right click on one of them and select "move or copy"

A pop up box will appear asking where you would like to move them to and whether you'd like to move them, or just copy them.

Make your selections and hit OK.
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #699 on: December 27, 2016, 11:38:10 PM »
i have a big list of names in one column. Is there a way to check if there is any exact name double?