I am currently using Excel 2013. I wanted to use vertical headings in tables instead of horizontal ones. Horizontal headers take a lot of space but vertical ones don't.
I looked upon a number of web sites but not even one gave an intelligent answer. There were answers like inserting a section break or an image, etc.
I am a 9th grade student.
You can change the text direction by editting the "Format" of a cell or range of cells:
A table:
Right click on the header cells after selecting them and go to "Format Cells":
Go to the Alignment tab and change the alignment to 90 degrees:
Click OK and your text will be vertically aligned. You can align the cell text to the left using the button at the top to make it a bit prettier if you want:
Good luck on the class!
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I want to freeze only certain cells in an area in an excel sheet to make that area act like a fixed menu. A screenshot is attached as an example. The highlighted area needs to be fixed when a user scrolls vertically.
Thanks for any advice.
Excel has a "Freeze panes" for this, in the "View" menu, "Window" item, as you can see from this screenshot:
You select the cell at the right bottom of the area you want to freeze and you do "freeze panes". There are some more possibilities you can find while clicking "Help" and searching for "freeze".
edit after edit of original question:
Oh. Seeing the edit, I think I believe what you want: you want the left columns to be fixed (you can't scroll down) while you want the other columns to be scrollable. This is not possible, because it would mean that the number of your row does not correspond with the row number of the cell you're in.
I have a SSRS report that when I export to Excel, creates unwanted columns when viewed in Excel. What would the best way to go about ensuring no additional columns are created. I have tried setting the location of the table rows to 0in, 0in but that did not resolve the problem. The attached screen shot is what the report looks like in both Visual Studio and Excel.
There are two ways to approach this:
Align everything:
You need to align your textboxes with the main tablix to remove the unwanted columns.
So the first expression after the main tablix start, Align left with the Patient Name and right with the right of state text box.
Second Expression align the left with the left of Phone text box and align the right of expr with the right of state.
Same thing you need to do with all the text boxes. If they don't align you will get the extra columns.
Align Left by moving the left column of textbox to match with the table. You will see blue line which indicates if the report items are aligned.
Aligning right using mouse
Also if you select multiplie object you align them using Format >> Align Menu option.
Create Tables to handle the alignment
Create tables without any groupings or detail. Delete the groupings as shown below.
Then add your report items in that table. One table before the main tablix and one after it. Make sure it doesn't give you any data otherwise you might get duplicate info.
It is lot easier to align table then to align 20 text boxes.
I have used both methods. If there are few items I will use 1. If there are lot more then I use approach 2.
I found an issue in MS Office Word 2010/2013.
When inserting a table that spreads more than one page, if the setting "Allow rows to break accross pages" is enabled, and a row cell is broken acrross two pages, then there is no way to bottom align any other column. The columns in the same row are aligning to the bottom of the part of the row in page 1 instead bottom aligning to the bottom of the row in page 2.
I would need the bottom aligned cells printed on page 2.
Does anybody know a work around for this?
Please see the attached image that illustrates the issue that I am trying to fix:
I have an Excel 2010 chart, with several series. I have added data labels to one of the series. I want to change the font size of all labels of that series at once. Can it be done?
Note that if the contents of data labels are combinations of the three standard options in the Format Data Labels dialog ("Series Name", "X Value", or "Y Value"), I simply change the font size in the ribbon and it works.
But if data labels contain cell references (i.e., formulas), I could only change the font size of one label at a time.
I guess a macro would help. I tried something a while ago, and faced a sequence of problems (do not remember exactly which).
Anyone knows of a shorter/alternative solution?
It appears I found the cause.
Referring to the figure, whenever any of the cells referred to by the data labels is empty (e.g., deleting the contents of D4), I cannot change the font size.
If I reinstate D4, I can change the font size again. This is reproducible for the simple worksheet/chart of the figure.
According to this,
Workaround 1: Fill up all empty cells referred to. Change the format of labels. Remove added contents.
Workaround 2: Change to a dummy range for the data labels, which has no empty cells. Change the format of labels. Switch back to your intended range.
This might require The XY Chart Labeler, an excellent add-in by Rob Bovey.
This does not always work (there are cases where one cannot change font even with all non-empty cells), so there should be another possible cause for the problem (besides the one reported).
A workaround:
For the workbook, Save As... (you can even use the same workbook name). The problem goes away.
But if you close the file and open it again, the problem reappears.
Most of the times it works.
A workaround (found prior to #1):
A very poor solution, but which possibly saves quite a few keystrokes/mouse clicks in many cases. Select the whole chart, and change the font size in the ribbon. It will change all text. Then recover the font size of all other text but the data labels.
It won't work in charts with more than one series with such data labels, if you want them to have different sizes!
A quick way to solve this is to:
Go to the chart and left mouse click on the 'data series' you want to edit.
Click anywhere in formula bar above. Don't change anything.
Click the 'tick icon' just to the left of the formula bar.
Go straight back to the same data series and right mouse click, and choose add data labels
This has worked in Excel 2016. Purely by luck I worked this out saving a great deal of time and frustration.
E.g.,
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/931/73853515.png
The border below the text is too long to the left by a few points (the dotted line is just for illustration).
Many thanks!
[Note: I have also posted this question into Mircosoft Answers, but I am not sure how active that site is...]
If you want to do this in Microsoft Word (which is what I assume from the tags) you can put TEST in a table (i.e. in a single cell), enable only the bottom border (at which point you will have the situation you have above, where the black bottom border does not align with T).
In order to make the bottom border align with the T, right-click the table and go to Table Properties > Table > Options and set the Left 'Default Cell Margin' to 0cm.