I have a mac - sigh. I am using excel on the mac.
All date fields have the type of "date", with a format of month/day/year (eg 3/14/2019)
If I enter the value as 10/13/2019, then all is well.
If I enter the value as 10/12/2019, then excel will store it as 10/12/2019, but display it as 12/10/2019
What I mean is that looking at the cells, you'll see 12/10/2019. However, if you click on the cell, then in the little text field at the top, the cell contents are displayed as "10/12/2019".
This is going to confuse the hell out of my american co-workers - it is already confusing me.
I can solve this by putting a ' in front of the 10/12/2019 date... but I'm not sure why Excel is doing its best to make such a mess of this. Is there some way to tell it to stop "auto correcting" things?
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I'm pretty baffled by this, I've never had any issues with a simple find&replace before. I'm just trying to replace FindValue with ReplaceValue, but it's not found. Is it because it's trying to search in "Formulas"? I don't see any other option in the drop down though.
Could be the format options you have used.
It should be "No Format Set" instead of "Preview*". You can achieve this by click on the button "Format..." -> "Clear Find Format"
With the format option activated, you also defined that the cell you search for has the text value "FindValue" and some cell attributes (date format or currency format etc.)
My =TEXT won't work. It doesn't show months or years. I have downloaded the example template from the support page of Microsoft but I can't make it work. It does show days, which is weird. It doesn't matter which file or sheet I try, same result.
I have tried to change the number formats and reinstalled Excel, without progress. I don't know what is wrong.
See the second comment in the answer to this question:
Formating a date in excel when combining text from multiple cells
I'm not sure about months, but try ÅÅÅÅ instead of YYYY. You can try hitting ctrl+1, selecting "Custom" from "Category" in the "Number" tab. Scroll down until you get to starter codes for date formatting. That may show you what code is needed for TEXT.
You say you are using the English version, but your screenshot is showing torsdag instead of Saturday.
I want to create cells which instruct the user on what need to be filled in that cell in the background and when you click to enter a something, this text vanishes. You normally see this you order something online. For example: Question: Date of Birth, answer field: DD/MM/YYYY in grey text. When you click on DD/MM/YYYY it dissappears and you can answer.
I would like to do this without using VBA, since I have no experience using VBA. Is this possible?
I thought about using conditional formatting, but I think the text won't disappear when clicked only when someone types something in.
Anyone has any idea how I can achieve this?
Thanks a lot
So you can enter placeholder text like cell value and colour it grey.
Then you can use Conditional Formatting to turn it black if new text is different than placeholder.
This would be the result:
However if you wan to make sure that your input is correct I suggest using Data Validation.
I have previously known an excel short-cut command that popped up an window where one could select a layout for a range of cells in the worksheet. There were many selections and several of them were quite beautiful. The layout would change the background color of the heading (first row selected), and format the first column and the cells in the body respectively.
I'm not talking about making tables or the table formatter, also it was only accessible through the shortcut command as far as I know (which I've now forgotten). Does anyone recall what I mean and could that person please share? I've been trying to remember it for some time now.
I believe what you first need to do is enable Excel to recognise your table. Take a look at my screenshot above!
By using Alt + O + A one will get up the AutoFormat window.
I'm using Excel 2013 64-bit with PowerPivot, and am having a couple of issues with KPIs (and I'm not alone).
I'm adding a KPI:
As you can see, I've chosen a non-default icon set. Here's what you then see initially:
OK, I know the solution to this (and am sharing it here just in case it helps anyone else) - just untick the Status column, then re-tick it to redisplay it. This seems to solve the problem (which didn't happen in PowerPivot for Excel 2010).
However, I then get this:
Definitely not the icons I asked for. It seems that whatever icon set you choose, you always get the default ones. Can anyone shed any light on this?
I'm experiencing the same problem. Seems to be a bug.
Steps for workaround:
Format a cell correctly on a separate worksheet using conditional formatting, select the cell.
Double click Format Painter under "Home Tab"
Format one of the status cells in the column.
Go to Conditional Formatting -> Manage rules -> Edit rule and choose: All cells showing "Your column Status" values.