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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #700 on: December 28, 2016, 12:14:40 AM »
i have a big list of names in one column. Is there a way to check if there is any exact name double?
Select the column,
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #701 on: December 28, 2016, 12:20:19 AM »
I edited a video and was trying to find a time format for it. Went to formula bar; time: 2nd option (13:30). ( And the 37:30:55)
Tried :04-:18  but it wouldn't work.

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #702 on: December 28, 2016, 01:04:35 AM »
Any ideas how come a fedex tracking number becomes an equation whenever I copy paste into excel?

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #703 on: December 28, 2016, 02:03:32 AM »
Any ideas how come a fedex tracking number becomes an equation whenever I copy paste into excel?
Dunno, but it can try setting the cell that you paste it into as "text" first, in place of the default "general"

It's a drop down menu on the first page of the ribbon

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #704 on: December 28, 2016, 07:50:25 AM »
I edited a video and was trying to find a time format for it. Went to formula bar; time: 2nd option (13:30). ( And the 37:30:55)
Tried :04-:18  but it wouldn't work.

Any suggestions?

I don't follow, your timestamp is >24 hours?
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #705 on: December 28, 2016, 07:53:17 AM »
Any ideas how come a fedex tracking number becomes an equation whenever I copy paste into excel?
I have the same problem with CC #'s.
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #706 on: December 28, 2016, 08:32:23 AM »
I have the same problem with CC #'s.
Even if you set the cell format to text before pasting?

Pasting anything with leading 0's is also affected by this

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #707 on: December 28, 2016, 08:50:52 AM »
You must set the cell format to text before pasting in. Otherwise, by default, excel will read it as a number. And by default, excel can only handle 15 digits (see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/269370)

If you change it to text after the fact, the digits after the 15th will be 0's and you'll lose them for good. If you change it before the fact, it'll store them as text and keep them. Note that on text formatting, you cannot make equations from the contents of that cell (maybe adding to cc #'s together will get you the next Powerball #'s ??? )

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #708 on: December 28, 2016, 08:52:30 AM »
Any ideas how come a fedex tracking number becomes an equation whenever I copy paste into excel?
A formula? What do you mean by that? Scientific notation? Such as 1E+9, or something like that?

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #709 on: December 28, 2016, 08:52:58 AM »
I don't follow, your timestamp is >24 hours?

+1, dont' follow.

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #710 on: December 28, 2016, 09:28:15 AM »
You must set the cell format to text before pasting in. Otherwise, by default, excel will read it as a number. And by default, excel can only handle 15 digits (see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/269370)

If you change it to text after the fact, the digits after the 15th will be 0's and you'll lose them for good. If you change it before the fact, it'll store them as text and keep them. Note that on text formatting, you cannot make equations from the contents of that cell (maybe adding to cc #'s together will get you the next Powerball #'s ??? )
Alternatively you can add a ' before the number
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #711 on: December 28, 2016, 09:31:24 AM »
I don't follow, your timestamp is >24 hours?
The video is 45 min. I need to start from :00-45:00
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #712 on: December 28, 2016, 09:45:55 AM »
You must set the cell format to text before pasting in. Otherwise, by default, excel will read it as a number. And by default, excel can only handle 15 digits (see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/269370)

If you change it to text after the fact, the digits after the 15th will be 0's and you'll lose them for good. If you change it before the fact, it'll store them as text and keep them. Note that on text formatting, you cannot make equations from the contents of that cell (maybe adding to cc #'s together will get you the next Powerball #'s ??? )
I was doing it after the fact.  :-[
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #713 on: December 28, 2016, 12:24:51 PM »
Dunno, but it can try setting the cell that you paste it into as "text" first, in place of the default "general"

It's a drop down menu on the first page of the ribbon
Thanx it worked
A formula? What do you mean by that? Scientific notation? Such as 1E+9, or something like that?
I put in a 12 digit number. I.e. 712837582475 and would get 7.12837E+11 in return

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #714 on: December 28, 2016, 12:44:53 PM »
Thanx it workedI put in a 12 digit number. I.e. 712837582475 and would get 7.12837E+11 in return
This works great:
Alternatively you can add a ' before the number
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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #715 on: December 28, 2016, 12:49:40 PM »
Thanx it workedI put in a 12 digit number. I.e. 712837582475 and would get 7.12837E+11 in return

Widen the column. Should display fully. If not, check the formatting that it's in number format.

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #716 on: December 28, 2016, 12:55:26 PM »
Widen the column. Should display fully. If not, check the formatting that it's in number format.
It only works if in numbers, standard on this sheet is general, so once I'm changing it, I can just change it to text. Thanx

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #717 on: December 28, 2016, 12:56:19 PM »
This works great:
I did that, I wrote FedEx... But then when I wanted to copy and paste into FedEx tracking system, it obv wouldn't work...

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #718 on: December 28, 2016, 12:57:56 PM »
Random question, maybe this is the wrong thread. Does anyone know of a quick convenient way to get my last years worth of chase cc statements into excel?

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Re: Excel Problem
« Reply #719 on: December 28, 2016, 02:33:02 PM »
Random question, maybe this is the wrong thread. Does anyone know of a quick convenient way to get my last years worth of chase cc statements into excel?
Have it in downloaded (not scanned) PDF files? And PDF-to-Excel software should do it just ok. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Pro you can try a free online service like this https://smallpdf.com/pdf-to-excel or this https://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/en/