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I was looking for a way to insert vertical separators into a custom ribbon in Excel 2010, which seems to be problematic for everyone.
Here goes.. This applies to Excel 2010 on.
Enter the 'Customize Ribbon' window. Create a new tab, (this creates a blank custom ribbon), and also creates a default group within the tab, which you can rename, and add buttons/macros to.
Make sure your new tab is selected in the 'Customize Ribbon' window.
Add another group or maybe more, (I have 4 groups in my ribbon)
Insert your buttons/macros into each of these groups
Click 'OK' and voila, you now have vertical separators.
Export the customizations using the 'Import/Export' button at the bottom of the window, to the default file name ('Excel Customizations.exportedUI'), this is an XML file.
Edit this file with a text editor, look for the phrase 'autoScale="true" (there is one for each group), this will determine if your buttons are large or small, if this is set to true then its possible some buttons will be large and some small, change it to 'autoScale="false" to show small buttons.
Import your file back into the 'Customize Ribbon' window, click 'OK' to overwrite any existing customizations.
By default, ribbon groups are separated by a "vertical separator", you can have one or more buttons/macros within each group, evry group will have its own label across the bottom. It seems like everyone is trying to put all their buttons/macros into one group within their custom tab ribbon which is why they can't insert separators individually. This is the ONLY way you can have separators in your custom ribbon.
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In an Excel file I use, I have 2 problems that seem related:
Filter stops working after row 1338, after that, content is not filtered. No matter what is inside a cell, it will not be affected by the filter past row 1338. The column I'm trying to use to filter contains company names in the form of text.
CTRL down brings the Active cell to row 1338 even though it is not the last cell with content.
I tried removing the filters and reapplying them. I have tried setting the Scroll Area past row 1338. Nothing worked.
I have no hidden rows.
Can you help?
Thanks!
This sounds from your description as though you have a Table, which currently runs down as far as row 1,338 - and then more data below that has been added but not auto detected by Excel as extra rows so is treated as separate data.
Click on a cell in the uppermost 1,338 rows and hopefully you'll see a DESIGN tab appear in your Excel ribbon.
Select it and then on the far left side you should see an option to RESIZE TABLE.
Alter the range in the box to cover your entire data and this should fix the problem.
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How can I restrict editing privileges per user in a shared excel workbook that allows simultaneous using? For example, how can I share a spreadsheet with a user, but only allow the user to edit Column A?
You select those cells which you want to have unprotected and right click.
Then select Format Cells
Then select the Protection Tab and uncheck the Locked checkbox.
Click Ok
Then Go to the Top and click on the Review Ribbon
Click Protect Sheet
Enter a password twice
Now only the person with the password can unlock and edit the sheet. The only cells another person can edit are those you 'Unprotected' earlier. The default is for all cells to be unchangeable once the sheet is protected.
However excel doesn't have very good protection and it can be cracked. It does stop most users from editing your protected items though.
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One of the cells in my excel is used as a user entry box... IF users paste something in this cell I want only the values to be pasted and not the format. Is there a way to set the default of paste option to paste only values?
I use a keyboard shortcut to past the values. If you hit Alt, E, S, V, Enter it will past the values. (hit keys in sequence, don't hold down the Alt key.)
Alt, E, S will open the paste special dialog box, V will select Values and then Enter will make it happen. This works well for anything copied from excel.
If you are copying something from outside excel, it will give you some different options for paste special, but Alt, E, S will get you there.
Another option, as #jeeped mentioned, is you can add a button to your quick access toolbar and then you can either click them, or use a keyboard shortcut for those. The items are numbered on the quick access toolbar. Assuming you have the default save, undo, and redo, adding paste values will allow you to hit Alt+4 (or whatever number comes up when you hit Alt) and select that action.
If you want to modify you default paste, go to the option menu, in the advance parameters: there are options to modify the print default parameters. However, it does not seems to work on excel.
As a workaround, you could try to create a new macro or edit an existing one, using office support here. I didn't try it myself, but with some research it might be possible, if you really need this modification.
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Help me out Excel aficionados, Google has failed me with this one ...
To select a number of non-contiguous rows in Excel I hold down Ctrl when I click on the row headers. However if I want to unselect a row then holding down Ctrl and clicking on the header again has no effect.
Q1. Is there a way to unselect a row in this way?
In Excel 2013 when I attempt to deselect a row with Ctrl held down, the row remains selected but goes a little bit darker, and increasingly so if I click on it again. This can leave somebody like me with multiple rows selected, but the appearance that some rows are more selected than others.
Q2. What is happening here?
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Ans 1. The answer to your 1st question is simple. Unfortunately you cant. Out of the box Excel doesn't support deselection via clicking for a second time. (Surprising how M'Soft didn't think about this)
You have some external 3rd party plugins (Kutools for example) which does allow you to achieve it.
A workaround is writing a VBA script for the same, however that is kind of going over the edge.
Ans 2. Well I don't have excel 2013 so I can't help you with that one unfortunately. In 2010 it seemed to work pretty normal.
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I have an excel spreadsheet that performs many calculations based on 4 cells to come up with a certain figure. I have been tasked to convert this spreadsheet to a widget like component that can be embedded into a web application.
Is there an easy way to display or understand the embedded formula's in the excel spreadsheet, so that I have an easier time converting them into ActionScript?
Thanks.
If I understand you correctly. Tools|Options|Windows Options and then check the Formulas box. That will show the formulas instead of the values. And it should open up the Formula Audting tool bar. Those tools should give you want you want.
Have you looked at Calc4Web? I've never used it, so I can't give a review, but the basic idea is that it generates C++ code from spreadsheet logic.
If you simply want to view the actual formula, not the result (the value), then when you are active on the cell which has formula you wish to see, press CTRL + (grave accent). The grave accent is usually one key to the left of the number 1 key on most keyboards. This works as a toggle, so if you press CTRK + (the grave accent key) again - the value will appear as it was prior to you pressing that keystroke combination.
Additional:
If you wish to show ALL of the forumlae for the entire workbook, then follow these steps:
Click the Office button on the top-left and then click the Excel Options button in the bottom right of that window that comes up..
Click the "Advanced" tab in the left pane.
Scroll down to the display pptions for "This Worksheet" section
Select the "Show Formulas in Cells Instead of Their Calculated Results" check box and then click OK.
Since there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to convert excel spreadsheets into ActionScript I suggest you view the formulas and try to solve them by hand if the amount of data isn’t to large or by writing a throw away script if a lot of data is required. This way you will understand the calculations and can implement them in ActionScript rather then relying on a wizard whose code you may or may not understand.
You can also toggle this setting from the keyboard by Ctrl+~ (that's the tilde, the first key in th numbers row)
So, if you want to quickly see the formula in a cell and come back to the normal view, just press Ctrl+~ twice