i got error formatting in excel. in the row "in CCC" value formatting got some error , it
here some screenshot:
Two ways, highlight the whole column that you want to change the format.
Right click > Format cells, and pick the format that you think is applicable under `Number tab.
Over the Ribbon, you should see a drop down under Home > Number and you can pick the format you want there too. Here is a screenshot for your reference.
Good luck.
Select the whole of the CCC column.
Go to Number format and make sure the same format is entered for the whole column.
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I hope you can help. I am having an issue with formatting.
The issue is this.
In Pic 1 below you can see Column H. Column H needs to stay formatted as Text. The date 03/14/2017 as text is 42808. What I need is the date to be text but remain in this style MM/DD/YYYY. Is there a formatting option that will allow 03/14/2017 to appear in this way and the cell to be text.
I have tried custom MM/DD/YYYY;# but this formats the cell as date again not what i want. I know I could manually type in 03/14/2017 but I want to avoid manual work.
As always any and all help is greatly appreciated.
PIC. 1
Formula:
=TEXT(H2,"MM/DD/YYY")
VBA
ActiveSheet.Range("H2").Value = Format(ActiveSheet.Range("H2").Value2,"MM/DD/YYYY")
I'd like to learn how to use conditional formatting in Excel or, preferably, OpenOffice Calc to format a string every time it appears.
E.g., I have a table of medical structures. I want to automate italicizing and coloring the words "Superior, Inferior, Anterior, Posterior, Medial, and Lateral" as soon as the cell is finished for increased visibility and ease of reading.
So far, I only know how to change the formatting of the entire cell based on its contents, but not the specific string.
Any help would be wonderful, thanks.
You can use conditional formatting with a formula. Navigate to Conditional Formatting > New Rule > Use a formula to determine which cells to format. And then enter the formula =SEARCH("Anterior",A1,1) in the formula box. Then set the Format you'd like, using the Format button. Then click OK.
In the next window, click in the box that allows you to select which cells to apply the formatting to. Repeat this step for each word, Superior, Inferior, Anterior, Medial, etc..
A few screenshots below to clarify.
I am trying to remove or replace the DIV error with blank and i have tried to use the ISERROR function but still does not work. This is what it looks like my data:
COLA COLB COLC
ROW1 $0 $0 #DIV/0
ROW2 #VALUE!
so i get these kind of errors when i have something like above and i would like to replace with blanks. Here is my formula that does not work. thanks
=IF((ISERROR(D13-C13)/C13),"",(D13-C13)/C13)
The suggestions are all valid. The reason why your original formula does not work is the wrong placement of the round brackets. Try
=IF(ISERROR((D13-C13)/C13),"",(D13-C13)/C13)
A better formula that appears to suit your question is
=IFERROR((D13-C13)/C13,"")
Incidentally, it is less prone to errors as using mismatched formulas for the condition tested and the result on no-error (the present case can be regarded of this type).
If you want to stick to ISERROR, then the solution by teylyn rules, of course.
Why remove the error, and instead just don't divide by zero?
=IF(C13=0,"",(D13-C13)/C13)
Give this a try:
=IF(C13=0,0,(D13-C13)/C13)
Another approach is to leave the errors in the sheet and hide them. This is sometimes useful, for instance #NA errors in a column of data when plotted on a chart show as missing rather than zero.
To hide them use conditional formatting, in the formula box
=ISERROR(C13)
and in the format box make the font colour white.
Select the whole spreadsheet, then under menu Home - Conditional Formatting - New Rule... - Select Format only cells that contain - Under Format only cells with select Errors - Click Format... button - Go to the Font tab - Under Color select the same font color as the background (such as white).
I have a requirement that a excel cell should support formula and also numbers with preceding 0s (like 000110).
The solutions I tried like setting the cell type to Text, or adding apostrophe (') in front of cell value resulted in the loss of formulas support.
Please help me if there is any way where the above requirement can be satisfied.
Additional information:
The excel is being generated by our application which uses POI interface to read and write the excel sheets.
Use a custom format. To always display six digits, the custom format string would be 000000. If you need decimal places be sure to add those.
Right Click on the Cell or on whole column
Click on Format Cell
Click on Custom
Enter 6 zero's 000000 and click Ok
Refer the snapshot
I have a large column of data in Excel. This data should all be treated as text, but in some cells Excel is "magically" changing the data to numeric. This is screwing up my vlookpup() functions in another part of the spreadsheet, and I need to override Excel's automatic data type detection.
If I manually go through the cells, and append ' to each numeric cell, it works. I just don't want to do this by hand for several thousand cells.
For example, this works:
Manually type '209
And this does not work:
Manually type 209, right click and format as text.
If changing the format of the column is not an option, it's helpful sometimes to create another column that's 'vlookup friendly' and leave your main column alone.
This is a trick I've used a few times:
Say your 'mixed' column is column A.
In column B, enter the formula:
=CONCATENATE(A1)
or as Jean-François pointed out in a comment, the shorter version:
=A1 & ""
And drag it down for to the bottom row.
Column B will be all strings. The VLookup can then use column B.
Under the Data Tab, open the Text to Columns wizard and set the Column data format to Text. The destination cell can be set to the original data cell, but it will replace the original formatting with text formatting. Other aspects of formatting e.g. Bold, color, font, etc. are not changed using this method.
Setting the cells to "Text" format, as Jean mentioned, should work. The easiest way to do this, in any version of Excel, is:
Right-click cell, "Format Cells", "Number" tab, select "Text" format.
Have you tried setting the cells' number format to "Text"?
In Excel 2003: Format > Cells... > Number > Category: Text.
I don't have the more recent Excel versions, but it has to be something similar.
I tried all the above but didn't work. And then added an apostrophe before the number. Only then it changed to text from the exponential notation.
If you already have your data and manually adding a quote in front of your data in each cell is not an option you can use a helper column and write
="'"&A1
in B1, where A1 is the reference to your cell, and drag down the formula in B1 to the bottom. At this point you will see the quote, and you need to paste data in column B as values (CTRL+C & ALT+E+S and select values, or paste special as values from the top menu). Then find+replace a '(quote) with a '(quote) and you will have a column with values forced to text and a quote in front of each numeral representation of the number.
Updated for Office 365 / Excel 365:
CONCATENATE is being deprecated and replaced by CONCAT.
This method still works, i.e. I need 7E10 to appear as 7E10 and not 7.00E+10
Microsoft documentation source here.