I want to create cells which instruct the user on what need to be filled in that cell in the background and when you click to enter a something, this text vanishes. You normally see this you order something online. For example: Question: Date of Birth, answer field: DD/MM/YYYY in grey text. When you click on DD/MM/YYYY it dissappears and you can answer.
I would like to do this without using VBA, since I have no experience using VBA. Is this possible?
I thought about using conditional formatting, but I think the text won't disappear when clicked only when someone types something in.
Anyone has any idea how I can achieve this?
Thanks a lot
So you can enter placeholder text like cell value and colour it grey.
Then you can use Conditional Formatting to turn it black if new text is different than placeholder.
This would be the result:
However if you wan to make sure that your input is correct I suggest using Data Validation.
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Can you guys please let me know how do I get the symbols in excel shown in the image below. I checked the cells but its simple B1-A1 formula but not sure how to get symbols there. Also, how do I get symbol if there is no change (<>) in same format as in image?
From the Home ribbon, click Conditional Formatting > Icon sets. In the arrows are the second item in the first category (Directional). Once selected, if you go back into Conditional Formatting and select to edit the rule, you will have options where you can set at what point it is to display each icon (up arrow, down arrow, or yellow bar, which you could use to indicate no (or insufficient) change.
While it doesn't look exactly like your image in color, the icon is the same. Consider an extra conditional format that matches the color of your text, if desired.
I have a mac - sigh. I am using excel on the mac.
All date fields have the type of "date", with a format of month/day/year (eg 3/14/2019)
If I enter the value as 10/13/2019, then all is well.
If I enter the value as 10/12/2019, then excel will store it as 10/12/2019, but display it as 12/10/2019
What I mean is that looking at the cells, you'll see 12/10/2019. However, if you click on the cell, then in the little text field at the top, the cell contents are displayed as "10/12/2019".
This is going to confuse the hell out of my american co-workers - it is already confusing me.
I can solve this by putting a ' in front of the 10/12/2019 date... but I'm not sure why Excel is doing its best to make such a mess of this. Is there some way to tell it to stop "auto correcting" things?
Hope you could help, don't know if its possible.
I'm using Excel to create a layout with some ID's in that layout.
Since it's a layout, I can't just show all information needed as it's too much, so, I would like with a click in that cell or when mouse hover it shows a tooltip/comment with a custom vlookup that search that ID in another sheet. When the user click in a empty cell or takes mouse point to an empty cell the tooltip/comment disappear.
Already make some searches but couldn't find anything. Any suggestions in how to achieve this?
Thanks.
It's as simple as this. Say I want to color "COPT" and "RAT GCU" Yellow can I color just those?
I tried conditional formatting tricks and they all work after the drop down item is selected.
I want the colors to be loaded only to certain list items to appear as soon as I click the drop-down arrow.
I'm not sure if this can be done but...
Additionally would anyone know the syntax to click a button to set the value of the list back to displaying "Please select"???? I already have a reset button that unfilters everything. So if I tie it to that button I think it'd work like a charm. I just don't know how to go about selecting the listbox as it's a data validation one and I can't seem to figure out how to define/declare the listbox and can't find it's name anywhere.
There is no way to color items in the DV list. If you want the cell to show "Please Select" when no choice was made, all you can do is enter that literal text into the cell. An empty cell will remain empty.
I think the image attached describes better than I can in words the functionality I am trying to locate within excel.
Is there a way to auto group based on the contents within the columns as shown? This is achievable for the example shown, but when there are up to say 30 Groups and many sub group types, I am wondering whether excel can auto-detect and work its way through the list, grouping as shown as it goes.
You can get a similar result using conditional formatting. select the whole table and create a new conditional format rule and choose formula and enter =A1=A2 set the format font to white (I've used very light grey to show that the data is still there)
To get the borders, do the same again and this time enter the formula =A1<>A2 and make the top border black.
It's not exactly the same as yours but it's close.