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label and formula12/1/2011
  Q: Just wondering how to set up a label and step by step to move it in to word to print on an Avery ...
  A: In C3 paste the following contents, 5          WEll Name     9D1-12-3D1-10-8-30 W1M ...
Finding text in cell4/5/2011
  Q: PLease see attachment. If i want to find a match for 74929 to show "hello", how do i do that? Also, ...
  A: Hope the example below helps. F H 9 a apple 10 f fruit 11 b box 12 ...
lookup value3/3/2011
  Q: How are you, hope you are doing Ok. I have this problem that I wanted to solve but I'm stuck with ...
  A: Suppose you have the following entries in "Jan" sheet Name Age City JanA 11 JanAcity ...
Excel for Mac 2008 - Workbook11/1/2010
  Q: I have a MacBookPro and I am trying to change the color of the workbook tab. With a PC you right ...
  A: I have not worked with MacBookPro and hence not able to answer this question. Not sure if it is ...
Need help for verifying time7/1/2010
  Q: I need help for two cells , i have two columns with different times one column contains India time ...
  A: Have the following values in the columns c,d,e,f,g, in row 9 as below. c d e f g ...
Subtraction9/3/2009
  Q: Am using Microsoft office Excel 2003. And a problem has been occurred with subtraction, like, if i ...
  A: There should be absolutely no problems with a formula like =5-3. 1. Ensure that you did not type a ...
excel2/3/2009
  Q: I hope u will quait well. Sir I have a problem in fromulation in excell,that is " I want entry as a ...
  A: It is not possible to convert the date completely into words. However you can convert a date into ...
How do I learn practical VBA?12/3/2008
  Q: How do I learn enough VBA to be able to use at my day to day simple calculations? I've bought some ...
  A: Books are the best bet to learn VBA (or any topic for that matter). If you do not have the patience ...
excel -vba- text file10/3/2008
  Q: 1) i have table down loaded from sap.in to excel. but i get hypen like this ...
  A: For people that are familiar with Excel, this would not be a problem. Once you open the file in ...
Extract text from a cell8/4/2008
  Q: Problem: I have a cell in which the data will be as follows (please copy into a notepad): xxxxxxxx ...
  A: The formula to get the date would be , ...
Problem in aplying vlookup formula4/1/2008
  Q: I am having problem while using vlookup command in Excel. I have data base on one year. I am look ...
  A: Please ensure that the table_array is sorted and the table_array rows are not in the same rows as ...
Counting problem1/2/2008
  Q: I would be much appreciated if you could help to advise me the formula to solve my problem. I need ...
  A: You would need to use the formula like =dsum(). It would be a lengthy procedure to explain the usage ...
Sumif Help Request12/1/2007
  Q: i kindly need your help in the following: i have a sumif formula as ...
  A: Please try using the absolute addressing ($) to fix the cells that you would want to include in the ...
how to sort rows with formulas3/1/2007
  Q: I have a difficult issue that I am trying to resolve and since I am new at excel2003 I cannot find ...
  A: You can first copy the cells that you wish to and then use the following sequence of commands to ...
Textfile saved from Excel5/1/2006
  Q: Whenever I want to use a textfile created by doing a saveas on an Excel worksheet, I can't access ...
  A: You can never have two different programs accessing a file that has the same filename. In your ...
Make 1 field into many columns11/15/2005
  Q: I have a single field with values like - 123,456,789 and would like to have them converted to single ...
  A: You could use the Data->Text to Columns options. Select the column that you wish to convert into ...
If/or formula2/1/2005
  Q: I want to set up a formula that looks at 5 or 6 cells (in the same row, although not next to each ...
  A: You could use this function in the cell, where you did like to put the result ...
Macros11/30/2004
  Q: How do I "enable" an existing macro? Thanks! P.S. We're using EXCEL 2000.
  A: If you want to execute an existing macro, you could goto to Tools->Macros->Execute to run an ...
modify a list4/30/2004
  Q: I have a list of emails in excel and would like to have a comma afer each one. How can I do that to ...
  A: I assume that each email is contained in a row in a single column. Insert a blank column next to the ...
formulas3/1/2004
  Q: I am using Excel 2000 and cannot figure out the following formula: I want to type a part number ...
  A: Suppose you have the data in worksheet2. Name it as Db and sort it on the first column which ...

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