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.
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Hi all,
I want to paste a website link into excel so that once I click the link, it will direct me to the website. However, some of the cells in my excel worksheet work well but some are not as shown in the screenshot above. May I know is there any thing that I need to adjust in term of format? Thank you.
When you enter what appears to be a web address Excel will automatically convert it into a hyperlink. It will then appear in blue and underscored. To get rid of the hyperlink select the cell and type "Remove hyperlink" in the Help field.
After that the web address becomes normal text and appears black. You can simply invoke the first mentioned automation by clicking in the cell, press F2 and Enter.
In my version of Excel (Microsoft Excel for Microsoft 365 MSO (16.0.13426.20270)), a pasted text is turned into a hyperlink if it is pasted in "write" or "edit" mode for a cell and then "Enter" or "Tab" is pressed.
"Write" mode can be invoked by double-clicking on a cell. "Edit" mode can be invoked by for example pressing F2, or clicking on the formula bar which is normally displayed as a text-field above the cell matrix.
I am looking to make my excel spreadsheet insert a hyperlink to a PDF but only display the last five characters of the name eg: helpme12345 and the cell show 12345 as the clickable link. I can do this long winded but am hoping a VBA macro can do this quicker
How can I write this? Thanks in advance
I don't think you can solve it at all like that. Not even by using VBA. Either the entire cell is a hyperlink, or it's not.
But I'll provide you with a neat trick:
Enter your text in a cell and make it as big as you need. For example "Click here to read more". Edit the cell again (press F2) and underline the word "here". Add some font colour as well if you want
Now draw a rectangular box that covers the word "here" (Insert --> Shapes --> some rectangular box)
Right-click on the rectangle and define your hyperlinke
Finally: Make the box transparent without borders. It'll still be there, but it's invisible... BUT clickable! It looks like you click on the word, but it's the box you click on.
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/
Is there any way I can undo several cell values with one click? I would like to make one click and undo all cells back to zero.
You can record a macro, and then assign it to a button.
To learn more about recording macros: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Simple-Macro-in-Microsoft-Excel
To assign a macro to a button: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Custom-Macro-Button-in-Excel
Is there a way to add a hyperlink to text only and not the entire cell in Excel 2010?
I am only able to insert a hyperlink which affects the entire cell (even white space after the text), but I wish to have it so that a user can click on the non-hyperlinked section of the cell in order to select the cell without activating the hyperlink.
Is this possible (ideally without VB)?
Many thanks.
I'm not sure.. I just wrote this, but it acts the same as adding a hyper reference (although you can still select the whitespace of a cell (after the text has finished) and it won't follow the link)
=CONCATENATE("This is your ", HYPERLINK("http://www.google.com","Google"), " link")
Just as a FYI, you can hold ALT key and click on a cell without it opening the URI
I got over this by turning off the "wrap text" from the cell formatting.
really, if you have wrap text turned on, the whole cell will act as a hyperlink. if you have wrap text turned off, only text will act as a hyperlink.
An indent (Home → Alignment → Indent: 1) makes the entire cell a hyperlink.
It's a very odd thing. If I link to a .doc or docx document, only the text is linked. If I link to a .txt document, the whole cell is a link.
I think it's just an odd excel glitch.