Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow.
Closed 9 years ago.
Improve this question
My users gave me a spreadsheet to research why our program wasn't able to import.
I have been slowly dissecting it, and so far have deleted every single column and tab except for one.
I have selected and deleted all cells and made sure there were none hidden.
I have also checked that there is no code associated with the tab.
And yet, the file size is still 8 megs! If I create a new tab so I can delete the original, it then shrinks to a few k.
Where else could something be hiding in the tab to keep that size?
UNTESTED!
Extraordinarily large (bytes) workbooks with very little apparent content are all too often created by data dumps into Excel.
One reason can be that the extraction code has been included with the data (check Developer, Visual Basic).
More likely to have a significant size impact is formatting, that can be detected by Editing, Find & Select, Go To Special, Last cell and observing the highlighted cell is a long way from the last ‘occupied’ cell. This can be fixed as below:
Select row immediately below the last ‘occupied’ row.
Ctrl+Shift+Down.
Del.
Save.
Size may also be increased by embedded objects (check Editing, Find & Select, Selection Pane) and also the content of Comments even where these are not displayed. [The specific answer to this question.]
Pivot tables with broken links may also be a cause.
Other causes can include the likes of the apparently blank ‘last cell’ indeed being occupied (say with a font colour to match the background) or other hidden objects.
Note that in all cases the file size may not reduce in response to ‘deletions’ until it is saved.
Related
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post.
Closed 4 years ago.
Improve this question
I'm using the outline function in Excel to create an indented bill of materials (BOM) and I'd like to automatically color the rows by their outline level. A BOM is a list of parts in a product. For each sub assy in the BOM, it is typically indented to show the product structure and the Excel outline function works well for this.
What I'd like is for each level of the outline to be colored differently to aid in visualizing the BOM. I can't figure out how to capture the outline level in order to apply conditional formatting to make that happen.
Frankly, I'm after just what is described in this question, except my outline is by row instead of by column. I have not been successful in getting the solution offered there to work and haven't found another solution here or elsewhere online. I think there are assumptions made there that I don't understand or I'm not implementing the custom function properly. I'm not permitted to comment on that solution for clarification, which is why I posted a new question.
Can anyone help me get that solution to work or offer an alternative?
Thank you.
I found a partial answer. It's not quite what I want, but it's an improvement.
This section of the Office Support article on outlines describes how to apply styles to an outline. I had tried it, but the built in styles only change levels one and two and then only apply bold and italics. I simply didn't see the changes. By modifying the built in styles, they became more distinct.
That said, it only applies those styles to the lead line at each level, not to every item at each level:
Auto Styles
So, while it does help, it's not exactly what I want. I'd really like every line to have formatting corresponding to its level in the outline. As you can see in the image above, it's not easy to see where an outline level stops using this auto formatting.
This is a better solution, but I'll leave the other because it may help someone else.
Post #4 in this thread at Mr. Excel describes how to report the outline level in a cell. It's old, so the menu picks are different. You get to the Define name dialog by selecting the cell, right mouse and pick Define Name from the pop up menu.
Now that I have the outline level in a cell, I was able to use regular conditional formatting rules to format the worksheet:
Fully Colored
This does require you to save it as a macro enabled workbook.
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
This question does not appear to be about a specific programming problem, a software algorithm, or software tools primarily used by programmers. If you believe the question would be on-topic on another Stack Exchange site, you can leave a comment to explain where the question may be able to be answered.
Closed 5 years ago.
Improve this question
In an Excel file I use, I have 2 problems that seem related:
Filter stops working after row 1338, after that, content is not filtered. No matter what is inside a cell, it will not be affected by the filter past row 1338. The column I'm trying to use to filter contains company names in the form of text.
CTRL down brings the Active cell to row 1338 even though it is not the last cell with content.
I tried removing the filters and reapplying them. I have tried setting the Scroll Area past row 1338. Nothing worked.
I have no hidden rows.
Can you help?
Thanks!
This sounds from your description as though you have a Table, which currently runs down as far as row 1,338 - and then more data below that has been added but not auto detected by Excel as extra rows so is treated as separate data.
Click on a cell in the uppermost 1,338 rows and hopefully you'll see a DESIGN tab appear in your Excel ribbon.
Select it and then on the far left side you should see an option to RESIZE TABLE.
Alter the range in the box to cover your entire data and this should fix the problem.
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
This question does not appear to be about a specific programming problem, a software algorithm, or software tools primarily used by programmers. If you believe the question would be on-topic on another Stack Exchange site, you can leave a comment to explain where the question may be able to be answered.
Closed 6 years ago.
Improve this question
One of the cells in my excel is used as a user entry box... IF users paste something in this cell I want only the values to be pasted and not the format. Is there a way to set the default of paste option to paste only values?
I use a keyboard shortcut to past the values. If you hit Alt, E, S, V, Enter it will past the values. (hit keys in sequence, don't hold down the Alt key.)
Alt, E, S will open the paste special dialog box, V will select Values and then Enter will make it happen. This works well for anything copied from excel.
If you are copying something from outside excel, it will give you some different options for paste special, but Alt, E, S will get you there.
Another option, as #jeeped mentioned, is you can add a button to your quick access toolbar and then you can either click them, or use a keyboard shortcut for those. The items are numbered on the quick access toolbar. Assuming you have the default save, undo, and redo, adding paste values will allow you to hit Alt+4 (or whatever number comes up when you hit Alt) and select that action.
If you want to modify you default paste, go to the option menu, in the advance parameters: there are options to modify the print default parameters. However, it does not seems to work on excel.
As a workaround, you could try to create a new macro or edit an existing one, using office support here. I didn't try it myself, but with some research it might be possible, if you really need this modification.
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
This question does not appear to be about a specific programming problem, a software algorithm, or software tools primarily used by programmers. If you believe the question would be on-topic on another Stack Exchange site, you can leave a comment to explain where the question may be able to be answered.
Closed 8 years ago.
Improve this question
Help me out Excel aficionados, Google has failed me with this one ...
To select a number of non-contiguous rows in Excel I hold down Ctrl when I click on the row headers. However if I want to unselect a row then holding down Ctrl and clicking on the header again has no effect.
Q1. Is there a way to unselect a row in this way?
In Excel 2013 when I attempt to deselect a row with Ctrl held down, the row remains selected but goes a little bit darker, and increasingly so if I click on it again. This can leave somebody like me with multiple rows selected, but the appearance that some rows are more selected than others.
Q2. What is happening here?
Cheers
Ans 1. The answer to your 1st question is simple. Unfortunately you cant. Out of the box Excel doesn't support deselection via clicking for a second time. (Surprising how M'Soft didn't think about this)
You have some external 3rd party plugins (Kutools for example) which does allow you to achieve it.
A workaround is writing a VBA script for the same, however that is kind of going over the edge.
Ans 2. Well I don't have excel 2013 so I can't help you with that one unfortunately. In 2010 it seemed to work pretty normal.
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow.
Closed 10 years ago.
Improve this question
I have an excel spreadsheet that performs many calculations based on 4 cells to come up with a certain figure. I have been tasked to convert this spreadsheet to a widget like component that can be embedded into a web application.
Is there an easy way to display or understand the embedded formula's in the excel spreadsheet, so that I have an easier time converting them into ActionScript?
Thanks.
If I understand you correctly. Tools|Options|Windows Options and then check the Formulas box. That will show the formulas instead of the values. And it should open up the Formula Audting tool bar. Those tools should give you want you want.
Have you looked at Calc4Web? I've never used it, so I can't give a review, but the basic idea is that it generates C++ code from spreadsheet logic.
If you simply want to view the actual formula, not the result (the value), then when you are active on the cell which has formula you wish to see, press CTRL + (grave accent). The grave accent is usually one key to the left of the number 1 key on most keyboards. This works as a toggle, so if you press CTRK + (the grave accent key) again - the value will appear as it was prior to you pressing that keystroke combination.
Additional:
If you wish to show ALL of the forumlae for the entire workbook, then follow these steps:
Click the Office button on the top-left and then click the Excel Options button in the bottom right of that window that comes up..
Click the "Advanced" tab in the left pane.
Scroll down to the display pptions for "This Worksheet" section
Select the "Show Formulas in Cells Instead of Their Calculated Results" check box and then click OK.
Since there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to convert excel spreadsheets into ActionScript I suggest you view the formulas and try to solve them by hand if the amount of data isn’t to large or by writing a throw away script if a lot of data is required. This way you will understand the calculations and can implement them in ActionScript rather then relying on a wizard whose code you may or may not understand.
You can also toggle this setting from the keyboard by Ctrl+~ (that's the tilde, the first key in th numbers row)
So, if you want to quickly see the formula in a cell and come back to the normal view, just press Ctrl+~ twice