In Microsoft excel Formulas involve the use of commas for separation of formula constitutes like (lookup_value, table_array, in lookups). This is the norm.
However mine is asking to input semicolons as separators (lookup_value;table_array; and so on)
what should i do?
Try the following by changing local regional settings in Windows:
Go to Control Panel -> Region and Language.
In the first tab click on Additional settings button.
Look for List separator and change it to a comma(,)
Open and close Excel.
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When extracting azure dev ops query to excel as .csv file I am seeing the data in excel but all is in one cell. For example description and title are all in one cell in the column/row.
Just guessing as your description is pretty vague but I assume that the CSV column separator set on your system (probably a semicolon) does not match the column identifier used in the downloaded CSV file (most likely a comma).
To fix it:
Windows
Open the Windows Start Menu and click Control Panel
Open the Regional and Language Options dialog box
Click the Regional Options tab
Click Customize/Additional settings (Windows 10)
Type a comma into the 'List separator' box (,)
Click 'OK' twice to confirm the change
Note: This only works if the 'Decimal symbol' is also not a comma. If you do not want to change this setting, there is another method to opening comma delimited files below.
MacOS
Go to System Preferences
Open the Language & Region pane and go to the Advanced option
Change the 'Decimal Separator' to one of the below scenarios
Source: https://harvestmedia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023978031-Opening-Excel-files-with-the-correct-CSV-list-separator
My problem is repeatedly removing decimal places throughout my workday.
Whenever I change a cell to number format, it defaults to 2 decimal places. 5 becomes 5.00. I then have to Decrease Decimal twice to convert the 5.00 back to 5.
I'm looking for a way to change Excel's settings so that the Number format option defaults to zero decimal places whenever I select Number format any time that I'm working with excel.
I tried the File >> Options >> Advanced menu, 2nd checkbox option to 0 decimal places and this does not work. I am aware of the methods to manually change a cells formatting including number and custom formatting codes. But I do not know how to change the global setting to prevent the issue in the first place.
Is there a setting or configuation work around that would do this?
I'm using Excel 365 ProPlus Version 1708.
I have wasted a lot of time repeating the process of decreasing decimal places in Excel.
Natively Excel doesn't offer an option to change this.
The way you can tackle it is by doing it in Windows.
So for Windows 10:
Open Windows settings
Search for "Region"
Click additional date, time and regional settings
Click Format tab / Additional settings ...
Change the number of decimals
I have a tutorial here (in spanish, but you get the picture)
Use styles.
Right-click the Normal style, click Modify, click Format.
Set the Number format to 0 decimals and confirm all dialogs.
Now all cells in your workbook that have been formatted with the Normal style (which is the default), will lose their decimals.
Do this with a new blank workbook and use it as a template for all new workbooks you start or put it in the Excel start folder.
I've pasted into an excel file lots of number such as 43:11 or 22:06. These represent goals scored and goals against. However excel is recognising them as dates and times. I want it so that I have two columns with 43 and then 11 for example, instead of 43:11. Whatever I have tried it has become confused because it things of it as a time. I've tried formatting as text, numbers etc. Any ideas?
This will work in Excel 2016 (other versions have the same functionality but the menus may be slightly different):
Copy your numbers to the clipboard
In Excel, select the Home ribbon
Click the downward arrow under the Paste button (the leftmost icon on the ribbon).
Select Use Text Import Wizard
Wizard appears. Make sure Delimited is checked and My data has headers is not checked.
Click Next.
In the Delimiters group, uncheck Space, check Other and in the box next to it type :
Click Finish
If you are typing values into a cell, then format the cell as Text before typing. If you are importing material from an external source, then tell the Import Wizard that the field containing these values is Text.
I'm using Excel 2013 64-bit with PowerPivot, and am having a couple of issues with KPIs (and I'm not alone).
I'm adding a KPI:
As you can see, I've chosen a non-default icon set. Here's what you then see initially:
OK, I know the solution to this (and am sharing it here just in case it helps anyone else) - just untick the Status column, then re-tick it to redisplay it. This seems to solve the problem (which didn't happen in PowerPivot for Excel 2010).
However, I then get this:
Definitely not the icons I asked for. It seems that whatever icon set you choose, you always get the default ones. Can anyone shed any light on this?
I'm experiencing the same problem. Seems to be a bug.
Steps for workaround:
Format a cell correctly on a separate worksheet using conditional formatting, select the cell.
Double click Format Painter under "Home Tab"
Format one of the status cells in the column.
Go to Conditional Formatting -> Manage rules -> Edit rule and choose: All cells showing "Your column Status" values.
Is there a way to sort a column of hebrew characters strings alphabetically in Excel (version 2013 here)? I have tried on my side with a list of very simple words, and it does not work (it does not produce any change in the order)
EDIT:
My client managed to sort the words on his side and suggested to use the context menu (below), which is not available on my side. I have a context button, which I added to the bar, but it did not sort out any helpful result.
When I pasted in the sorted worksheet, some layout in the whole document got messed up: for example now in some cells I see (Right name (a while the cell value is `Right name (a)'
I would say that there should be a way to sort left to right and right to left cell properties but I still haven't figured it out...
Step one
Add Hebrew support, even if you don't have an Hebrew keyboard and don't plan to use one:
[If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, before you can use any of the right-to-left features in Microsoft Office, or even correctly display right-to-left scripts, you must Add an input language and enable the keyboard layout for the right-to-left language.][1]
Step two
Add "context" to your ribbon bar (Excel Options -> Customize Ribbon). Without language support (step one), context will not work.