New behavior in Excel, it automatically wraps text if you paste in text with a new line.
It is extremely annoying to have to remove wrap text after every single time I paste. How do I disable this "feature" for good?
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I have a spreadsheet in excel with some vba code that makes a note show up when I navigate the cursor to the cell and turn off when I navigate the cursor away.
However, the note still shows up when the mouse is hovering over the cell, which I want to prevent.
Is there a way to disable this mouseover functionality without disabling the note feature entirely?
I am trying to add several bills to a calendar I'm creating in Excel and cannot figure out how to add them line by line with the amount. Wrap text doesn't separate the bill and amounts how I need them; is there a way to do this?
When typing in a cell in, press ALT+ENTER to force the text to start on a new line within the same cell.
I have an excel File filled with data which often doesn't fit in one line. Obviously these lines are getting split into two. Working as intended so far. But sometimes Excel decides there is a need for a line break even tough the text does fit on one line.
My guess would be that Excel sets a margin for its cells, but how can I modify it to prevent this from happening?
WordWrap a.k.a. Wrap Text is your friend:
Here you can see more.
If you are copy pasting.
Paste the desired object within the box with the blinking cursor (Easy).
This will paste the contents only within a block.
if the documents from which you are copying the content consists of line breaks for new paragraphs then excel takes those line breaks as new rows/columns.
for your problems if your document has made split cells for the content, Try
Selecting the columns you wish to combine together.
then use the formula.
=CONCAT(CELL A,CELL B)
Hope this helps you.
I have text copied from a pdf file to Excel(2010). I used 'text-to-columns' to create separate columns.
Now I have finished that part of my task, I want to paste another piece of text into the same file.
But now Excel directly uses the text-to-columns I used to split this new text, which I now (obvious) do not want to be split.
I tried pasting the text on a new worksheet. I tried to paste this text in a new workbook, but still the text is directly split by excel.
I tried pasting as text and I tried pasting as Unicode text. But so far, I have not found the solution for this. How can I make Excel "forget" that it has split text into columns?
Select any cell with a value and run Data ► Text-to-Columns, Delimited. Turn off all delimiters and click Finish.
Subsequent pasting of information into a worksheet will not use 'remembered' delimiters since there are none.
Now this is a weird one
We have a project where we are reading some data from an Excel spreadsheet. Obviously this data has to be in a certain format. Some of the fields consists of numbers, but should be treated as text.
To stop Excel from being "smart" and change the cell types, I have set the format in the respective cells to 'text'.
Now here is the problem: some of the numbers we're pasting have spacing between the digits. When we remove the white spaces, Excel change the cell format to 'standard' and turn the text into the 2.42805E+11 format.
BUT: this only happens when the text is copied from some sources. If a paste a number copied from a textbox, everything turn out fine when we edit the spaces. If we copy the exact same number from a web page, Excel change cell format.
I thought copy-paste would be copy-paste, but obviously some formating or something gets along on the ride.
Does anyone know what causes this, or know have to get Excel to stop being "smart" with the formating?
EDIT: I found a somewhat peculiar solution to this. I recorded a macro that uses the 'Paste Special' function with text as parameter, and overrided ctrl-v with it (in that particular spreadsheet). Works like a charm! Feels a bit "hacky", though. Can anyone think of a scenario where this will backfire?
Try using the Edit Paste Special command, it will give you some controls to choose what to do with the data.
For a taste of the complexity of what is really going on underneath, look in MSDN about Clipboard Formats. In short, it isn't all Excel's fault...
A common user trick copying data out of excel is to paste it into Notepad and cut it back to the clipboard, which flattens all the formatting down to plain text. It won't help you for pasting data into Excel, however.
Copy-paste in windows retains formatting. One way to get rid of the formatting is to paste the text into e.g. notepad first, then select and copy it again. This loses any copied formatting.