Copy TAB (\t) character in an excel cell - excel

Basically I have a data like this
1 2 3 4
that is separated by a TAB(\t) character.
My problem is whenever i copy this type of data in an excel cell, the data is converted to
1234
and not
1 2 3 4.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks a lot in advance!


Tabs are not displayed in Excel. The tabs when copied in are still there just not displayed. One will need to replace them with spaces. This can be done in another cell with a formula:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(9),REPT(" ",4))
Or in mass in place with VBA:
Sub MyTabReplace()
ActiveSheet.Range(A:A).Replace Chr(9), " "
End Sub


Or with Replace:
Copy a tab character from your data
and paste it into the Find box,
then put spaces or whatever you want to replace it with in the Replace with box.
Using this method is easy and choosing an option in the Within list allows you to replace all the tabs in anything from a selection of cells, all of a sheet to the entire workbook. It can work for at least some other special characters too.
Replace panel may be got with control-H, or Find and Select in ribbon, or Edit menu > Find > Replace ...

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Is it possible to copy and paste a string containing tab seperated values in to one cell in Excel.
For example, I have the following string :
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I need to copy this to one excel cell and keep the tabs inbetween. Currently, it handles them as a space, which is not what I want.

Go to Data tab> Text to column
Make sure to uncheck the tab as one of the delimiters.
Basically, when you paste a string with tab character, it will paste into multiple cells if the tab delimiter is checked. Make sure it is turned off.

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Does anyone know why Excel 2013 is posting the last number in the row below when I paste this text in a cell ;
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Paste it without the previous format rules:
try to:
go in insertion mode (double click on your target cell)
Paste the content using the short cut "ctrl+shift+v"
In order to clean-up your data source from non-printable characters there are already some question about it. I think that this can explain everything you need. I can simply replace all of them with nothing and that's it.

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When i convert Excel Sheet data into tabbed delimited the blank cells are not considered, which creates a problem in my java program. When i insert garbage value my program runs properly. hence i need a proper method in which i can deal with the blank cells. If there is a tool it will be better.

Summary: You can manually put a placeholder value in all the blank cells in Excel, and then in Java replace that placeholder with "" or null.
Steps:
1. To quickly grab all blank cells, use your mouse to select the range of cells that you want to import and then press CTRL+G on a PC (or Edit > Special > GoTo on a Mac) and then select "Blank Cells". You will then have all your blank cells selected.
Type in your placeholder value such as "placeholder123" and then press CTRL+ENTER on a PC (or CMD+ENTER on a Mac?). Then the value will be entered in all selected (formerly blank) cells.
In your Java program, ignore all imported values that say "placeholder123".
Does that work for you?

Copy and paste from excel cell creates new line... how can I stop this?

So if I have a cell that contains abc and I copy the entire cell into say SQL server it always includes another line ie:
'abc
'
Instead of
'abc'
If I double click in the cell and highlight the data it will appear correctly. All this time I have just been putting up with this annoyance but surely there has got to be a way I can click just the cell, and copy the entire cell without the line break??? I have googled too much over this and could not find anything other than how to add/remove page breaks which does not help.
I should add that the '' marks are already in SQL so when I paste a cell between the '' it puts the last ' on the new line

What you need to do is use regular expression to replace 'space' with 'no space'
Using Qt: replace(QRegExp("\s"), "");

Excel 2007 - Find a word

I have like 3000 works in an excel cell that I need to search one word in. It does not highlight the word, it only places me into the cell with the word.
Anybody has any idea how I can get the word highlighted that I am looking for?
Thank you,
Steve

You have to change the font/highlighting/background of the characters you find using the Characters property in VBA. This can be packaged with the actual search or you can perform the search manually and the highlighting with a macro. See this link for code samples http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66197
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If you save the whole book as an HTML. Then open it in your preferred browser, you can search in the normal way and it should highlight the desired word.

You can use conditional formatting to highlight the entire cell that contains the search criteria, but I think you want only the specific text to be identified?
I haven't tried this, but here is a discussion on this:
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397445

If it's just one long cell, or if all the long cells are in a column, you could try using the "Text to Columns" feature (under the Data tab of the Ribbon). If you set it to be delimited by space (assuming your words are separated by spaces), this will make it so that each word occupies its own cell. Then when you use Find, it will highlight the exact cell.
Another option would be to copy the range you want to search and paste into MS Word. From there, you can search, and it will highlight the exact word.

export as a .csv then, then import so that it breaks each column on the space, then you can do what i said above, and then combine the cells. why don't you just copy paste the contents of the cell into notepad and do a seach & replace there?

There is no equivalent to the highlighting feature in Word in Excel.
What I would suggest is doing a Replace where you set the replace with to the word you are searching for, plus set the Format (using the Format... button on the Replace tab) to a yellow color (on the Fill tab of the Replace Format dialog). Once you have that, clicking on "Replace All" will get the effect that you are seeking (that is, all instances of the term "yellow" in the worksheet will now have a yellow fill color in the cell).
I hope this is what you were thinking of.
Mike

alt-e-f (find), type the word, then you can go thru the cells with em

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