I have a specific width column which has a long text which is partly hidden due to values in the adjacent columns. I was hoping that the user might be able to read the entire text from the formula bar once clicked on the cell. But since I am referencing the text from a PivotTable the formula bar shows the cell reference and not the text. The text is dynamic and hence the referencing is important for me.
Is there a way I could display the text in formula bar instead of the cell reference?
I did the cell referencing in the background VBA instead of the excel. so the VBA populated the cells and once the cell is selected the entire text shows up in the formula bar
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I have a textbox that I need to keep updated with the contents of a cell. At the moment I update it manually.
I know you can use a textbox to display a cells contents by referring to the cell in the formula bar of the textbox, but I would like to know if its possible to display a cells contents in part of the text?
For example...
If I have a cell that contains the number 1.23 and a text box that contains the text "The cell shows 1.23" how can I get the number in the textbox to show the contents of the cell instead of the "1.23" as flat text.
...like the equivalent of Concatenate("The cell shows ",A1) but in a textbox?
Is there a way to do this without using VBA?
UPDATE -I decided to go the other way and put the 'Concatenate' formula in a cell on a hidden sheet. The box then points at the cell on the hidden sheet.
I would like to know if there is an answer to my original question though.
I have an Excel data sheet and this sheet has a cell that the visible value and the value in the formula bar are different.
I used Cell.Value but it returns the visible value. I want to get the value in the bar.
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I mean the visible value is MMK333098333101 and the bar value is MMK333098.
So how can I get the bar value in VBA Excel?
The bar value is both. If you drag the bar down you will see both values. It is separated by a line insert. You can't see the second line because you are only showing one line in the formula bar.
If you want the first part then you will need to use LEFT and Find to find the carriage return and take all the values before it.
=LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(10),A1)-1)
I am working in Excel 2011 for Mac. I have a cell in my spreadsheet with wrapped text, and whenever I add to the text of that cell, the row height automatically readjusts based on the number of rows in the text of the cell. However, when I reference that cell in another cell, the height of my second cell doesn't readjust as I change the text in the original cell. I know that I can manually do this by selecting the cell and AutoFitting it, but I'd like the row height to adjust automatically. Is there a way I can do this? I've attached a photo below to illustrate my problem. As you can see, the A1 is my original cell, which has wrapped text and automatically adjust the row height. I then referenced cell A1 in cell A4 and then wrapped text in cell A4, which, as I had hoped for, AutoFit the wrapped text from A1 into A4. However, when I added text to A1, the height of A4 didn't change, as you can see as the bottom 3 lines are cut off.
Thanks for the help!
AFAIK, you'll always need manual intervention (or VBA) to autofit the row when the content is created with a formula. It's the same in Excel for Windows, so I'm not surprised to see that behaviour in Excel for Mac.
I want to set a Excel cell two values.one is visible,another will show in the edit box when the cell activited.Just like a formula.,except the formula is a normal number.Can this work by vba?Can somebody help me with this please?
The formula bar will always show the value of the cell.
The cell itself can have formatting applied that changes the display of the value. For example, the screenshot shows a cell with a custom number format of
Cu\sto\m fo\r\m\at #
The formula bar and the cell cannot contain two different values, not even with VBA.
I have some text in a list of cells in an excel sheet A which are the values of a dropdown list in sheet B. Part of the text in a cell is underlined.
However, in sheet B from the dropdown list, when i selected the cell that has part of the text underlined, the underlined formatting is not shown on sheet B.
Any ideas why?
For the sake of an answer (as provided by #Tim Williams):
Validation lists don't copy formatting from the source cell(s), only their values.