I have an excel File filled with data which often doesn't fit in one line. Obviously these lines are getting split into two. Working as intended so far. But sometimes Excel decides there is a need for a line break even tough the text does fit on one line.
My guess would be that Excel sets a margin for its cells, but how can I modify it to prevent this from happening?
WordWrap a.k.a. Wrap Text is your friend:
Here you can see more.
If you are copy pasting.
Paste the desired object within the box with the blinking cursor (Easy).
This will paste the contents only within a block.
if the documents from which you are copying the content consists of line breaks for new paragraphs then excel takes those line breaks as new rows/columns.
for your problems if your document has made split cells for the content, Try
Selecting the columns you wish to combine together.
then use the formula.
=CONCAT(CELL A,CELL B)
Hope this helps you.
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I am trying to cut and paste Excel data into a Word document. The data is only in 1 column, and there are several cells that have bolding and underlining in them.
I would like to be able to copy and paste the data into a word, keeping the bold and underlining.
I have tried everything I can think of, but I don't see any way to keep the formatting in word.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Eric
Copy the table to Word as usual. Then go to Table Tools -> Layout -> Convert to Text and keep the formatting.
Convert to text
My python code was to append one row at a time of multi-column data into a text file, which i then needed to pull apart column-by-column.. not row by row. It looks like a normal text document with elements split by spaces, meaning:
0.00000 107.07925 25.34190 -1.22487 0.63152
1.00000 88.51627 6.54154 -1.27440 0.90064
2.00000 76.58229 3.43457 -1.14756 0.88143
So on so forth. When i open the notepad file, that is what it looks like. But it copies-and-pastes weird...
0.00000
107.07925
25.34190
-1.22487
0.63152
1.00000
88.51627
6.54154
-1.27440
0.90064
2.00000
76.58229
3.43457
-1.14756
0.88143
And i have gone through all combinations of replacing all spaces with semicolons, ampersands, and even copy-and-pasting the amount of spaces a tab creates just in the effort of getting this to import into Excel..
Can anyone help me figure out what causes this issue and how to fix it? Thank you.
As for opening it in Excel since it is split by spaces you might try changing the text to columns option setting to be space instead of the default tab. This option is listed under the data tab(Excel 2013). As far as I know the easiest way to do this would be to open a blank excel sheet type anything into A1 and then click the text to columns button. Select delimited and then Next change the options on this page to space instead of tab then finish. Now delete whatever you typed into Excel. You can copy and paste the data into this excel window now and it should work for you. Now this setting will reset when you close and reopen excel.
I have a requirement in excel where i want to copy each text that ends with pulistop into a row of another sheet. ex:
Setting up the configuration.
Creating environment.
Pushing the tasks.
Now assume that above text is in one cell and i want to copy each sentence that ends with pulistop into individual rows of a new sheet. like below.
Setting up the configuration.
Creating environment.
Pushing the tasks.
Please help me in doing this as i have many no. of sheets which needs this modification.
Thanks in advance.
Chakri.
Check if this can be useful for you:
Copy the cell(s) into clipboard (Ctrl+C).
Paste into Notepad or similar text editor. Note: in Notepad the lines will appear next to each other, but nevermind, the line jumps are still there.
Replace in text editor all " (double quotes) with nothing.
Copy the whole text of the editor.
Paste into Excel.
This works in my case. If you have many cells like this next to each other, with this method you can process all at once with the same effort. Will this work for you?
When I copy and paste multiple lines from a Visio flowchart text box into Excel, the text comes into one cell as wrapped with space seperators (and if there are more than a certain # of lines, stacked cells with this formatting).
When I copy and paste the same information into Word, the text retains it's line breaks.
Why does Excel not see the line breaks and split the information down to the other cells?
If I copy and paste the same information from Word into Excel, it identifies the line breaks and will put the information into seperate cells.
If this is a super user question, I will move, but I was unsure, as am I not really bothered or want a workaround, I would rather understand the reasons for the behavior.
Now this is a weird one
We have a project where we are reading some data from an Excel spreadsheet. Obviously this data has to be in a certain format. Some of the fields consists of numbers, but should be treated as text.
To stop Excel from being "smart" and change the cell types, I have set the format in the respective cells to 'text'.
Now here is the problem: some of the numbers we're pasting have spacing between the digits. When we remove the white spaces, Excel change the cell format to 'standard' and turn the text into the 2.42805E+11 format.
BUT: this only happens when the text is copied from some sources. If a paste a number copied from a textbox, everything turn out fine when we edit the spaces. If we copy the exact same number from a web page, Excel change cell format.
I thought copy-paste would be copy-paste, but obviously some formating or something gets along on the ride.
Does anyone know what causes this, or know have to get Excel to stop being "smart" with the formating?
EDIT: I found a somewhat peculiar solution to this. I recorded a macro that uses the 'Paste Special' function with text as parameter, and overrided ctrl-v with it (in that particular spreadsheet). Works like a charm! Feels a bit "hacky", though. Can anyone think of a scenario where this will backfire?
Try using the Edit Paste Special command, it will give you some controls to choose what to do with the data.
For a taste of the complexity of what is really going on underneath, look in MSDN about Clipboard Formats. In short, it isn't all Excel's fault...
A common user trick copying data out of excel is to paste it into Notepad and cut it back to the clipboard, which flattens all the formatting down to plain text. It won't help you for pasting data into Excel, however.
Copy-paste in windows retains formatting. One way to get rid of the formatting is to paste the text into e.g. notepad first, then select and copy it again. This loses any copied formatting.