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About Aidan Heritage
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I have provided first hand support since `95 for Microsoft Office majoring in Word and Excel - support for all versions from 2 onwards

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My background is in the insurance industry and call centre areas, but have been called upon to provide many varied solutions.

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I'm educated to UK A level standard, but as I left school some 30 years ago that is rather irrelevent - university of life has provided more of a background!

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Excel - finding letters of the alphabete

Expert: Aidan Heritage - 11/7/2009

Question
I like to do crosswords/codebreakers
I automated the process but know want to cross the letters used of the list when I have used them, I do it manually but would like to do it automatically.

Example- I find that the figure 3 = represents the letter e in the codebreaker,I find all the occurrences of 3 in the codebreaker and change them to e by find and replace. I then cross off the letter e in my alphabet list, I want to make this last action automatic as well. Is it possible. Thanks Peter B

Answer
I think the easiest way to do this would be with conditional formatting where a formula is used – this would be a COUNTIF – if the count of the letter on the grid is greater than zero, then a strikethrough format would be applied to the cell – hope this is clear, but if not please let me know – should it help my email is aidan.heritage@virgin.net

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