Keyboard shortcuts for Databricks - databricks

I wanted to know is there any keyboard shortcut to clear specific cell output in databricks.
As of now i can see there is option to hide the result.

As far as I know, this is currently not possible, it's all or nothing sadly.
However a workaround I've found for this, is adding an empty cell below the cell you want to clear the output for. Then click the left blue line of the cell (to select the cell and not its contents) and then press SHIFT + M (merge with cell below).

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Excel: Cannot edit text just deletes the whole thing

I am new to excel and every time I try to edit text in excel by double clicking the cell or press the back space button when I make an error it just deletes the whole thing and I need to retype everything.
I was wondering if there was any way to turn this off.
Thanks in advance!
To the best of my knowledge, there no way to turn this off. When you want to edit text in a cell, you need to first select the cell by single clicking on it. Any contents in the cell will display in the formula bar located above the spreadsheet. Click anywhere you need to in the formula bar to edit text. If you delete or backspace on the cell accidentally, you can CTRL+z to undo.
If you do not see the formula bar, click on View tab in the menu ribbon and make sure the Formula Bar option is checked.

Automatically copy excel values not formulas

I am looking for an automatic version of this feature:
https://www.technipages.com/excel-copy-and-paste-values-without-formulas
Is there a built in Excel function that can do this automatically without manually copy/pasting each cell? I have a column of functions and I want to have another column of values beside it.
Thanks!
I'm not sure what you mean by "automatically", but this should at least speed up the process:
Select the cells you want to copy the content from and press CTRL+C
Click in the new cell and instead of using CTRL+V, use CTRL+ALT+V. This will open a dialogue box, in which you have to check "values". This can be done with another keyboard shortcut V (english version of Excel, might be something else in your language).
This might seem complex, but it's actually pretty fast.
Instead of pasting the cells with CTRL+V, you now paste the pure cell values with CTRL+ALT+V + V (+ ENTER, depending on whether you use the english verion or not).
This at least saves you from using the mouse and clicking through additional menues. Hope that helps!
#J Connor, if I'm not mistaken you are in need of PROGRAMMING method, as you have written Automatically.
Here are few simple steps to get the Solution.
Method 1
Range("A1:B10").Copy Destination:=Range("E1")
Method 2
Range("A1:B10").Copy Range("E1").Select ActiveSheet.Paste
Few more I can suggest. ☺

keyboard shortcut to formula editing field (literally) in Excel? (Not F2)

I am looking for the keyboard shortcut to edit a formula in the formula edit field. I am not looking for similar functionality such as F2, which allows you to edit the formula, but only with the cursor in the cell you are working on.
Put another way, I am looking to move my cursor to the field to the right of the "fx" (function sign + "x") field that is just below the ribbon so I can edit a formula in Excel and have it behave the way I want.
I know many will ask why. The main reason I want to do this is when formulas get long they wrap (which is difficult to follow) and/or cover up adjacent cells (which makes modeling more difficult). I don't want to change the wrapping behavior etc. because I actually use it (it is helpful) in some cases.
I do not want a solution that involves a macro because I want this to work on any computer I am working on.
Been Excel'ing for a long time and this is one of the few things I have to go to the mouse for and it slows me down.
EDIT: also can't lose the reference color coded highlighting. F2 then Ctrl + A gets the cursor up there in the formula bar, but the wrapping in the cell stays (bad) and the color coded reference highlighting goes away (bad).
I found a way but you may or may not like it.
In Excel older than 2007 do the following and then use F2:
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Edit tab.
Uncheck the Edit Directly In Cell option in the Settings area.
Click OK
In Excel 2007 and newer do the following and then use F2:
Click the Office button and then click Excel Options (at the bottom
right).
Select Advanced in the left pane.
Uncheck the Allow Editing Directly In Cell option.
Click OK.
Giving credit where credit is due I found this on the below site by simply googling "excel keyboard shortcuts formula bar"
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/quick-access-to-excel-formula-bar-via-keyboard/

Transform data calculated via formulas into static values

The way I have been using excel to transform data calculated via formulas into static values was to select each cell, press F2 to edit it and then press F9to replace the content of that cell with the result of the formula in it.
I was wondering if there is a convenient way to do this process to a group of selected cells. It would come in handy if I wanted to do this to hundreds of cells at a time.
Could anybody please tell me if that is possible? And if so, how?
If a VBA based solution is viable, then this short routine should suffice.
sub Values_Only()
with selection
.value = .value
end with
end sub
Just select a group of cells and tap Alt+F8 then Run the macro. Optionally, use Options in the Macros dialog to set a hot key combination.
You may also find the Quick Access Toolbar (aka QAT) of use to assign the Paste Values command to a hotkey. Mine is set to Alt+2. With any group of cells selected, Ctrl+C then Alt+2 is sufficient to revert formulas to their returned values. See this for more information.
Highlight all of the desired cells. Copy them. Then right click the highlighted area and select the 123 paste option.

Auto populate column by reference?

I am working on the following sheet, called Raw_Data:
In a new sheet, I want to copy the registration_date column by reference. This means that if I change the registration_date on the Raw_Data, the changed value should be reflected in the new sheet.
To implement this, I have entered the following =Raw_Data!C2. So far it works fine as you can see below:
But the problem is that when I double click on the little green square here, it doesn't automatically populate the entire column.
I don't want to manually drag-and-drop because there are several thousand rows. Does anyone know how I could automatically populate the column by reference?
While there are some automation things you could do, I think a lot of that would be overkill for what could be just an input issue with how you are choosing to copy in Excel.
If you find that you need to copy a large block of data, rather than dragging the corner of your cell like that, try one of these alternate methods:
While selected on the cell, press CNTRL + C. Then in the 'Name Box' (where it shows the address of the cell you are on), type in the cell where you want to go (A17000); then press SHIFT + ENTER. This will jump you to that cell, and will highlight all cells inbetween where you were and where you are going. Then press CNTRL + V.
Another method of moving around a large data block in Excel is to hold CNTRL and press an arrow key. This will move you as far down the data block as possible. Note that this will not work on a blank sheet, as there is no data and therefore Excel doesn't know when to stop.
Again - some automation would be possible here, but moving around an Excel worksheet is something you will be doing too frequently in too many different ways to want to automate what might be 5 keystrokes once a week.
In excel the "double click to fill" feature is a heuristic based feature that fills the cells that appear to be relevant with the selected formula (+ reference corrections).
In your case there is no hint the heuristic can use to tell what to fill so nothing is being done.
Regarding dragging "several thousand rows", that's not a real problem. If you only do it once, there no reason to even trying anything "smart" or complicated.
You can also copy the source cell, select all the cells you want to fill and then paste. You can select cells in any way you like, not just dragging.
You could instead of all the dragging/copying/filling approach simply copy directly from the source, and paste by reference.
As a last resort, you can always go for a VBA solution to do that for you.

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