this is a very simple question, but I can not find a way arround it. I am working ona MATLAB project and I need to convert numbers from 1 to 1000 to the written form I.E(one, two, three, four...) since I do not know how to do this in MATLAB I was just going to autopopulate the numbers in MS Excel and import the data directly into MATLAB. My problem is I do not know neither how to autopulate numbers in their written form in Excel since it does not work as I would normally do. I.E :Typing one, two, three, four in separate cells; selcting the values and dragging until I hit 1000. Once I start dragging it just repeats the values over and over. I would appreciate if anyone could help me with this issue either in MATLAB or MS Excel. Thank you
To find the auto-populate lists in Excel, go to Options>Advanced>General>Edit Custom Lists
As you can see below, written form numbers are not included in these lists, which explains why they do not autofill when you drag down.
As pnuts alluded to in the comments, a good way around this in Excel would be to create a custom function that will generate a written form number for any numeral cell value. This has already been done by Microsoft support and is very easy to implement by pasting the code on this link into the Visual Basic Editor in your workbook. (credit to pnuts)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/213360/how-to-convert-a-numeric-value-into-english-words-in-excel
Once you've done that, you just put your numbers from MATLAB into column A, then paste this formula into B1 and drag down.
=SpellNumber(A1)
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I find myself amazed by the magic of Excel non-transparent automatization. I have office 365.
I have the setup below, column P contains "Current value" that is taken into consideration for reports and column Q (Current formula) actually contains formulas that can be restored to P by removing the #.
Let's take cell P58 as an example:
If I write in P58 the formula =RIGHT([#[Current formula]],len([#[Current formula]])-1) and hit enter, Excel automatically converts it to =365.25/12/7 and sometimes converts it directly to the result of that function 4.35. Yes I said sometimes because I have not figured out the pattern.
I would expect after adding the =Right( formula that I would need to Copy - Paste special Values, and then replace = with = in order for Excel to recognize it as a formula.
The problem is this only happens for one file, my coleague has not been able to replicate it on other files.
I don't have any VBA triggers on Sheet or ThisWorkbook
How can I controll these actions that Excel does?
Oh and by the way, I have Fill formulas in tables to create calculated columns OFF:
Let me know if I need to upload a Demo video, I'm not sure how I would do that on stackoverflow at the moment.
I have an excel spreadsheet that was exported from some software... it uses code that it understands, which makes sense, but the problem is that the output isn't always best for us humans for a quick visual. Especially when a person isn't accustomed to actually reading it.
Proof in point:
This is in cell column H:
2020-04-01T11:28:18+00:00
Now, I could create an excel formula that replaces every instance manually, but what I want to do is make is to that the T and everything right of is goes the way of the dodo.
I know that there is a substitute command in Excel, but it only would do the first, I forget if there is a way to actually make it so that it will ignore the text to the right, and just take it from the T to 14 steps right and delete it so that all that is left is the Year, day and month. I will use Excel VBA if need be, but I'd rather it be a formula if possible that I can use for a copy and paste in another sheet for readable output.
Thanks in advance.
With data in H1, in I1 enter:
=Left(H1,10)
You don't need to locate the T because its position is fixed.
I'm working on a sensitive Excel file where I'm not allowed any VBA code, so I have to help myself with basic formulas in Excel. Please note that I am not allowed to add extra columns and the solution has to be in one single cell. What I have are two columns:
Column A has numbers from 1-10.
Column B has numbers from 1-10.
I'd like to know e.g. for all 3's in A, how many 5's are in B.
The result would be as well seen with the use of two filters, but I don't want to do this over and over again, since the size of the columns will only get bigger.
I tried to use INDEX-MATCH command in the COUNTIF, but it's not that simple. The main problem is to define how to look and search in each row and then count/sum/whatever.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Though a function not available in versions of Excel before 2007, it seems:
=COUNTIFS(A:A,3,B:B,5)
met the requirement here.
This forum has been very helpful to understand the Rally Excel Add-in.
I am able to extract the Predecessors for a user story.
If there are more than one then they are all placed into one cell separated by a coma.
My syntax is :AcceptedDate,FormattedID,Predecessors.FormattedID
The results is;
2012-11-05T14:38:24.963Z US22938 US19926,
US27528,
US28467,
US29310
The Predecessors are all in one cell: US19926,US27528,US28467,US29310
Is there a way to receive each predecessor in it's own cell? Row?
Regards,
Jim
Unfortunately there's not a way to accomplish this using the Excel add-in. As a workaround, it would be possible to split these out into cells or rows using Excel parsing functions and/or VBA though.
When numbers are stored as text in Excel you see this little guy http://imgur.com/zXdwD
in the upper-left hand corner. when you click on it it gives you the option of converting the text representation of a number to a number upon which math can be done. also, when stored as text numbers appear on the left side of the cell opposed to the right one. I have an array of numbers which are stored as text, but they don't offer that little green thing to convert them to numbers. It may sound trivial but I'm using the Vlookup function to reference a large column of numbers to a code name, but it's not being recognized. And the only thing I can think of is that it's somehow being read differently (the codes are most defintely in the lookup table, and ctrl+f will find them). I want to know if anyone has an idea about what's happening.
Thanks.
The smart tag is a little finicky at times. There's a couple of things you can do.
If you're using code, you can multiply the cells in the range by 1, this will convert them to a number.
Alternatively you can convert the number you're matching to a string and then vlookup. Something similar to:
=VLOOKUP(TEXT(A1,"#"),B1:D10,2,false)
Note TEXT(A1,"#") would round to no decimal places, you may have to adjust the formatting.
The format of some of the cells in the lookup table maybe formatted as text. If there are a lot of them you can create a macro that corrects them. I had the same issue in this SO question although it was the opposite problem.
Another way to correct them would be to copy all the cells in the lookup table in that column and in an adjacent blank column edit>paste special>values>add which makes each of them numeric. Then copy them and paste those back over the originating cells.
A quick trick to convert all numbers formatted as text back to umber format is to copy the data into the "Notepad" application. Then select and copy the data from "Notepad back into your spread sheet and everything will be converted to number format.