I have to enter hex values in a column in excel worksheet.
Now whenever I write the number 01E0, it changes it to 1.00E+00.
How do I stop this from happening?
Excel provides formatting and recognizes your input as a number and tries to display it correctly as a number, containing the Euler number.
In your case, the simplest approach would be to tell Excel to stop doing this, by formatting the column/field/row as text. How to do this is explained here.
Try this if you want the value to be stored as text-
'01E0
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we have sort of data in excel like this ---> 34:5:20
excel likes to consider it as time or date.
here is the problem because I know it's not a date and what ever action I want to do with it again
excel thinks it's a date/time value .
how can I stop this behavior ?
(each of the ':' delimited values has a special meaning to me but not date/time)
thanks a lot.
There is one option though, you can use the formula below, to convert the dates back to your format
=CONCAT(" ",TEXT(A2,"[h]:mm:ss"))
I am adding a space using concat function just so that if you ever decide to convert all to value, it will not return back to dates
I found the solution finally .
copy column to notepad.
select another column
change it's format cell to text.
now paste from notepad.
now my data is considered as text and I can separate the values using "column to text" from DATA tab.
thank you all for your valuable time.
I have a lot of numbers and in Excel these numbers are displayed in a wrong way. Excel adds a lot of dots in between the numbers.
In the program NUMBERS it is display correctly. I need to manipulate this data in Excel. Can anyone help me how to set the numbers in Excel correctly?
Incorrect dots in between the numbers in Excel:
Correct way the numbers are presented in NUMBERS:
You need to check your options, more exactly the "advanced" ones, as indicated in the following screenshot, apparently both boxes have the same separator value for decimals and for the thousands (sorry for the Dutch, that's just the language of my Excel installation):
Use Find and Replace function to replace all . with blank.
Then change format Number with Use 1000 Separator property marked true.
READ CAREFULLY THE QUESTION PLEASE, IT MENTIONS EXCEL VBA.
NOT EXCEL
I was given the task of fixing a date input on a VBA form. A textbox should have the user enter the date as MM/DD/YYYY.
I am required to use an input mask, not allowed to do something as validating date after or using a calendar. So far I was able to use the 2 methods mentioned (forcing the format after using ISDATE).
However, it has now been made clear it has to be a mask so keys are filtered on entry, with the mask being visible when entering the date: __/__/____
Where you see underscore, he should only be able to enter numbers and the / are always at those positions
Is there a way to do this? I can only find a tutorial for the mask in Access VBA.
I Googled "Excel input mask" and the 2nd result was: Using an Input Mask Microsoft Excel written by Allen Wyatt...
Using an Input Mask
...You may wonder if there is a way to set up an input mask that will add the colon automatically. The good news is yes, there is. The bad news is no, there isn't. Sound confusing? Let me explain...
You can set up a custom format that will display your time in any format you want. For instance, you could use the following steps:
Select the cells you want to use for time input.
Choose Format from the Cells menu. Excel displays the Format Cells dialog box.
Make sure the Number tab is displayed.
In the Category list, choose Custom.
Replace whatever is in the Type box with #":"00.
Click on OK.
You can now enter your times using just digits. The problem (and this is the bad news) is that the cell doesn't really contain a time. If you enter 230 (for 2:30), it doesn't contain 2:30 as a time—it contains two hundred and thirty. Thus, you can't use the contents of the cell directly in time calculations.
To overcome this, you can use another column to show the entered digits converted into a time. All you need to do is use a formula to do the conversions. For instance, if the time you entered was in cell A3, you could use the following formula in a different cell to do the conversion:
=(INT(A3/100)/24)+((A3 - (INT(A3/100)*100))/1440)
Format the cell that contains the above formula so it displays one of the various time formats, and you are all set.
(Full article and more at the source.)
This post may help you...
Formatting MM/DD/YYYY dates in textbox in VBA
Major noob here. This is my dilemma:
I created a spreadsheet on excel and input my data in a column. Then I was informed that I need to add two zeros (00) to the front of each value. Is there a way of doing this on excel w/o me double clicking each row and manually adding the 00's before the original value?
in order to add two leading zeros to numbers of unknown length, the only viable option I can think of is to turn the number into a string.
="00"&A1
There may be a way with the format text function to measure the length of your number then format with two leading zeros but that is currently beyond me.
The other option is to go into the custom cell format and change the display to
000000
Where the number of 0s is two longer than the number of digits in your number. If your numbers are inconsistent in length you would need to do this for each cell. It would keep the number as a number though.
Thanks for your replies. #Forward Ed your idea gave me a diff idea. I just added the 00's to the column before and then used another column + the CONCATENATE function.
Also for fellow cavemen like myself, you can use notepad to do it the ghetto way and copy then re-paste back to excel -.-
Im such an idiot lol. Thank you
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.