I think I have a pretty simple problem i can't figure out, I have 4 text boxs that display information like the one below, what I want to do is enter a formula in this text box so that when my data is refreshed the values change but the formatting stays the same.
I have the countif statements all working but I can't figure out how to add the formulas to the text boxes, I'm i missing out on something here?
I don't think Excel supports formulas in text boxes, you'd have to use VBA.
As a workaround, maybe you can put the formula in a cell and then format it (and the surrounding cells) to replicate the text box design?
A bit late, but, yes, you can add formulas to textboxes, just select the box and write the formula you want directly into the formula bar.
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I'm trying to make a complicated formula display its calculated values in excel formula bar.
For example this =(D9* AE9)+(A9-E9) be displayed like this =(4*0.88)+(3-1).
I would really appreciate your help on this!
Thank you in advance
The Excel Formula Bar always show the formula in the active cell - you cannot use VBA to permanently change one without changing the other.
If you select a portion of the formula (a subexpression) in the formula bar and press F9 excel will show you the result of evaluating that subexpression (remember to press Escape to revert back to the formula).
If you are looking for a way of understanding/troubleshooting complex formulas try Excel's built-in Evaluate Formula tool on the Formulas tab.
There are also more powerful formula explorer addin tools available commercially. These use formula parsers and evaluaters to show the user what the parts of the formula resolve to.
I'm working with numerous documents that have conditional formatting which turn a cell black if a certain value in the row is contains a specific text. The specific text varies a very often and will differ per document. When I try to write something in the black cell, it will automatically decline anything, but when I copy paste something on there it still enters the value. Because I have to copy big sets of data into these documents, I sometimes end up with values in these black cells, which can cause problems later on.
What I was wondering is if there is a way to delete any text in the cells that have the specific formatting (aka they are black) with help of the Find and Replace function or something similar.
Because I have to do it in seperate documents that I get from other people, I don't think using a formula or vba would be too practical, as I would need to manually copy it each time. But feel free to prove me wrong.
EDIT:
Hopefully this will illustrate more what my problem is.
The Background of these cells are still considered to be 'No Fill'
The conditional formatting is what causes the color
Let's assume the formatting you are trying to empty content from is yellow background cells
See image below:
Press Ctrl+H for Replace Option
Press Format Button to select the required format (yellow background)
Press Replace All
Final Result:
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.
My PC isn't set up at the moment so I'm having to do a bunch of excel work on my mac using Numbers. I have a function applied to split addresses into 4 different columns, however I need to change a few minor details in some. Since all of the data is output from functions I don't know how to change the data without having to delete the function and retype the cell from scratch.
In Excel I know theres a way to kind of rasterize the data and make it editable. But how do I do this in Numbers?
Just highlight the cells you're interested in changing, and paste them in a new column with "paste formula results" from the edit menu.
The new column has plain values.
Is there any way to change the color and/or font of specific text within an excel cell? That is, I'd like one part of the cell's displayed value to be red and another part of the same cell's displayed value to be blue (as an example). Since the displayed values are being calculated as formulas, I'd need some sort of formatting formula that would apply only the stuff inside the formula. I can't seem to find anything in the text.
If you want to do this based on a formula, you will have to write some VBA. See this example
No problem. Edit the value in the formula toolbar.
Take a look at Conditional Formatting in excel.