Does anyone know why Excel 2013 is posting the last number in the row below when I paste this text in a cell ;
075680 TYSNES 95759753
95759753
Paste it without the previous format rules:
try to:
go in insertion mode (double click on your target cell)
Paste the content using the short cut "ctrl+shift+v"
In order to clean-up your data source from non-printable characters there are already some question about it. I think that this can explain everything you need. I can simply replace all of them with nothing and that's it.
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I've been trying to copy & paste a table from Excel into Word, by inserting it as an Excel worksheet object and ensuring I paste as a link, so I retain the formatting from Excel, and allows me to access the specific table easily.
Unfortunately, the excel table disappears apart from the final row of the selection when I paste into Word, and I've no idea how to fix it. The internet isn't giving me any solutions either.
Is this a known issue? Or is there a way around this?
Thanks in advance
#Rob, i cannot comment (no privilege) so need to do this via an answer: please check the paragraph setting of the paragraph where you copied the table to and try changing it to anything but not 'fixed height'. Fixed really makes it look as if 1 row is pasted. Let me know if it worked, it did for me.
first my apologies for being a noob with regard to Excel Formulas - I did search and did not find an answer.
I have a spreadsheet that I am trying to modify. I got two spreadsheets from a client, who gave me a working copy and one that he had modified. There is a #REF error in the modified version. If I look at the working copy the formula looks like this.
=VLOOKUP($C$1,'Client Rates'!$A$2:J$228,5,FALSE)
As you can see it has quote marks in the table_array parameter because it does have a space in it. However I cannot enter it this way as it throws an error every time I try. Error is something like this - 'There is a problem with this formula. Not trying to type a formula? ... '
How can I enter the work sheet as a parameter with spaces in the name into the formula?
Did you try F2 to edit formula directly. Then highlight section of formula you wish to change then select the actual data you want evaluated by the formula?
Excel will create the correct string for the sheet and area reference for you.
The problem is you are trying to copy and paste directly from on workbook to another. Copying ctrl-c and pasting ctrl-v from one workbook to another may not have the desired effect. If you copy first to notepad or some other text editor and then paste from that text editor all works fine.
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?
I know there are other similar threads on SO, but they suggest formating the cells to text and/or prefixing the cells with a '.
I've done them both, and it works fine in Excel 2007, but when I open the exact same Excel template in Excel 2003 and paste the same source, it removes the leading zeros. Are there any other possibilities? Could one make a macro something?
EDIT: I found a solution for a different problem that solves this as well. Similar problem. Record a macro that uses 'Paste Special' as text, and override ctrl-v on that spreadsheet.
If you use a leading ' then it should work.
Just select cells with data, right click, choose format, select custom and type the same number of zeros that You want to display (it is better explained here).
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.