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 :
Height 1420mm
Width 440mm
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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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 ...
When I am copying text from one tab to another in the same Excel document it is just pasting blanks.
I can paste into other tabs fine, just not the one I want.
I am doing this with a simple Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V
I have:
Used XLCleaner
Pasted as plain values
Pasted into a new tab then copied from there
Pasted into a new workbook and copied from there
It still pastes blank cells into my source tab
This was caused by a table being "Split" into two parts with separate filters.
I had to redefine the table boundary to include all columns.
Then I could paste correctly.
I have notice that if you insert a hyperlink into any cell in Excel and set the text to display to be a number (1, for example), it causes the entire cell to now be clickable in addition to preventing you from changing the hyperlink text afterwards. If you try to change the hyperlink text by going to Edit Hyperlink the Text to Display is always Selection in Document.
If you do the exact same thing but make the Text to Display an alpha character (like a), it works just fine and you can edit the hyperlink Text to Display without issue.
This is causing problems because I am trying to read Excel data using Interop libraries and even those libraries are unable to read the Text to Display when it is set as a whole number with no decimal places.
If you create a Hyperlink like:
You can later edit the "Friendly Name" by selecting the cell and doing the edit in the Formula Bar.
I have text copied from a pdf file to Excel(2010). I used 'text-to-columns' to create separate columns.
Now I have finished that part of my task, I want to paste another piece of text into the same file.
But now Excel directly uses the text-to-columns I used to split this new text, which I now (obvious) do not want to be split.
I tried pasting the text on a new worksheet. I tried to paste this text in a new workbook, but still the text is directly split by excel.
I tried pasting as text and I tried pasting as Unicode text. But so far, I have not found the solution for this. How can I make Excel "forget" that it has split text into columns?
Select any cell with a value and run Data ► Text-to-Columns, Delimited. Turn off all delimiters and click Finish.
Subsequent pasting of information into a worksheet will not use 'remembered' delimiters since there are none.
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?