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  • Clean up imported or pasted data in Excel

    When you bring data from other sources into Excel, it may not look the way you'd like -- numbers might have come in as text so that you can't sum them, dates might not be dates at all...you get the idea. Here's how to clean things up so your spreadsheet looks and works right. ...( read more ) Read More...
  • Get data into Excel by importing it

    If you need to get existing data into Excel, I can guarantee you the last thing you'd ever want to do is retype it. And copying from another program or from the web and pasting directly into a cell in a workbook might leave you with nightmarish looking results. Luckily for you, there's a much better way to get that data into Excel. Importing! Read on to learn about the Excel Text Import Wizard. ...( read more ) Read More...
  • Formula to Access a List of Values Interspersed with Zeros or Blanks

    Today’s author is Bob Umlas, an Excel MVP since 1994. This tip is a formula which enables you to access a list of values interspersed with zeros or blanks and pick up only the non-zero values in the same sequence they’re listed. It’s better to illustrate. Suppose you have this list in A1:A14: …and you want to produce this list: The following formula entered in E1 and filled down to E6 does the trick. It’s an array formula which means that you must press Ctrl+Shift+Enter after entering the formula...
  • Hidden and Invisible Objects

    Today’s author, Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about cleaning up spreadsheets. I often receive files demonstrating issues customers are experiencing with Excel. Recently I have noticed a common problem in some of these files that impacts the file’s performance and size: hidden and invisible objects. When gathering data in Excel it is common to start with information found in a variety of sources, frequently lists or tables located on the Internet. Customers often copy and...
  • Repeating a Set of Data

    I thought this would be interesting to share to see how other Excel folks might have solved this problem. I got a question recently from a customer asking how to automatically take a set of values in one column, say: 1000 5000 600 and repeat each value, say, 4 times in the next column, so that it looks something like this: 1000 1000 1000 1000 5000 5000 5000 5000 ... and so on. My response: the only way to truly do this automatically is to write a custom macro. However, if you can suffer through a...
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