I have two excel sheets (excel 2019)
source_file.xlsx. You can find my source sheet here
dest_file.xlsx
Am trying to split the data from source_file.xlsx and save it as multiple dest_files such as
dest_file1.xlsx, dest_file2.xlsx, dest_file3.xlsx
Later, I manually try to paste the formatting from source_file.xlsx to each of dest_files
My source file looks like below
So, I did the below in source_file.xlsx
CTRL+A --> CTRL+C
Navigated to dest_file1.xlsx and did the below
CTRL+V and choose the below
But the problem is, this doesn't copy the colors from source_file.xlsx and paste it in dest_file1.xlsx
Can I seek your help to understand what could be the problem?
That doesn't look like true formatting. Rather, it looks like an Excel table which has formatting of it's own but is governed by table rules instead of something like color this one cell green. In your multiple dest_files, click any cell and then Home > Format as Table.
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I tested some kinds of copying - but i copy just values instead formulas. Is there any way to copy Excel formula from multiple cells and paste it into a text document?
If you go to Formulas card, inside Formulas Auditing section there is a button Show Formulas.
Once you enabled it (clicked on it) you'll be able to copy formula from Excel to Notepad ++.
In Excel, choose Options from the Tools menu. Excel displays the
Options dialog box. Make sure the View tab is selected.
Ensure that
the Formulas check box is selected.
Click on OK. Excel should now be
displaying formulas.
Select the cells whose formulas you want to copy
to Notepad.
Press Ctrl+C to copy the cells to the Clipboard.
When I paste an Excel table in Thunderbird e-mail client (ver 24.2.0) the table looses its formatting. One workaround seems to be that you paste the table from Excel to Word and then paste it in Thunderbird. But this seems a bit odd as Word and Excel are part of the same Office Suite of applications, yet their behavior is strange.
Can anybody shed any light on it?
Copy from Excel,
Paste into word -> Paste Options -> Keep Source formatting,
then highlight the table, Go to Design -> on the right, Increase the "Line Weight" to a minimum of 1 point, then click on "Borders" and select "All Borders"
Now copy this table and paste it in your Email. It should work.
The fastest way to copy excel tables as they are, in Thunderbird is to first copy the table to Word, and then recopy and paste within html email.
Colors, lines, format are kept as they are...
Another workaround you can do entirely within Excel is copy the cells for your table, pasted as a picture in Excel and then copy/cut the picture from Excel and then paste to Thunderbird. You lose the ability to edit in place in Thunderbird, and increase the size of the email but you keep all the formatting from Excel.
So far,the best solution is paste the table into Word and then copy from there.
This is a bug from 2003 Reference Link，but didn‘t fix it.
Paste the table as it is in mail from excel, then go to
Format --> Table --> Table Properties
In Borders & Spacing, keep the Borders as- 1 or 2 pixels.
It is working 100%
This is a bug in thunderbird. I overcome this by using LibreOffice (or open office) spreadsheet. Formatting is not lost when we copy from Libreoffice Calc. Thunderbird development is a bit lousy :-). Keeping this bug open for long time.
try to use "Text To column" function under the "DATA" TAB
it will make the column suitable to be pasted as a text
I ran into a peculiar behavior today that I need help with. I have a range(A2:C3) that I'm using conditional formatting to hide based on a yes/no dropdown (A1). It basically sets font/border/and bg color to white. There's a cell with a hyperlink (A3) to clear the contents of the range (A2:C3) which should be included when the range formatting is changed.
It works well until you click the link, then it isn't included with the range for conditional formatting for some reason. Any ideas on a solution to get followed hyperlinks to behave as new hyperlinks? I'd like to keep everything within the conditional formatting scheme to save myself a heap of work but if VBA is needed that's fine. Thanks!
Select the column, row or cells.
Format Cells
Uncheck normal font.
:)
This deselects auto formating for things like hyper links.
I have a list of documents that I want to paste relative links to in Excel. I converted the list to a list of Excel formulas that look like
=HYPERLINK(".\docs\123abc\1.doc","1.doc")
=HYPERLINK(".\docs\456abc\1.doc","1.doc")
However when I paste this in Excel it will paste the text for the formula and not actually make it a formula. I have tried creating a macro to set each cell's FormulaR1C1 value as the value from the text in the cell and that didn't fix it. As well I have tried to copy and paste special as forumla and that did nothing either.
If I type in each formula by hand instead of copying and pasting them it works great, however the list of forumlas I have is a couple hundred and I would prefer not to have to type each one in by hand. Does anyone have any experience with this or suggestions on getting the forumla to register?
Before pasting the formulas,
Select all cells in worksheet
Right click and select "Format Cells..."
In the Number tab page, select General and click OK button.
Paste your formulas list.
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.