[mso] Re: mso Digest V10 #27
- From: "Bill Hunt" <billhunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:33:57 +1000
Hi!
If the numbers you have have a fixed length, you can keep them as
numbers but still see leading zeros by formatting the cells with a custom
format which is all zeros for the required length, e.g. where the number
always has 6 digits you can set a custom format of "000000" (without the
quotes). Then, if you enter a number such as 123, it will appear as 000123
and a number such as 1234 will appear as 001234.
Still working on understanding the second question you asked . . .
Cheers,
Bill.
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[mso] Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
[mso] Re: Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
[mso] Re: Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
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From: "Christine" <blue3123@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [mso] Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:35:46 -0700
Greetings,
I work a lot with data that is all numbers but has to be formatted as text
due to the leading zeros. Is there an easy way to format the cells as text?
Going to the Home tab (assuming I'm not there) and clicking on the drop down
arrow then scrolling down to text takes more mouse clicks than I'd like. I
know I can use the keyboard shortcuts but what I was hoping to be able to do
is put button the Quick Launch Bar, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
And another question - The comma format button defaults to 2 decimals.
Anyway to change that to 0 decimals? I also work with a lot of data that
needs to be formatted with a comma but without decimal points.
Thanks, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Christine
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From: Pruscoe@xxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:23:06 EDT
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
To your first point - put a single quote (') in front of the number. It
won't show up when the cell is displayed or printed, but it will cause the
following characters to be treated as text.
In a message dated 4/24/2011 11:36:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
blue3123@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Greetings,
I work a lot with data that is all numbers but has to be formatted as text
due to the leading zeros. Is there an easy way to format the cells as
text?
Going to the Home tab (assuming I'm not there) and clicking on the drop
down arrow then scrolling down to text takes more mouse clicks than I'd
like. I know I can use the keyboard shortcuts but what I was hoping to be
able to do is put button the Quick Launch Bar, but that doesn't seem to be
an option.
And another question - The comma format button defaults to 2 decimals.
Anyway to change that to 0 decimals? I also work with a lot of data that
needs to be formatted with a comma but without decimal points.
Thanks, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Christine
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:52:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vergel Villacorta <atrocallivlegrev@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [mso] Re: Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
hi xtine,
i have encountered this problem before where i have a lot of rows to format
as
text, when the original entry is a number. what i did before was to format
the
column as text then go thru all of it and press F2 to refresh. somehow i
exercise my finger with it. :)
an easy way to do it is, given that the column where the numbers are place
is in
Column C and starts in Row 2 up to 200.
the number of character which is needed for a particular cell is 10, sample
cell
C2 has an entry of 12345678 this has to be 0012345678
and cell C3 has an entry of 123456 this has to be 0000123456
i insert another column (Column D) and in cell D2 i put a formula
=Right(Concatenate("0000000000"&C2),10)
Drag this formula up to cell D200 and copy paste special.
Delete column C, Format column D as text.
for the comma default i dont think u can change it. but you can custom
format.
hope this help
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From: Christine <blue3123@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 11:35:46 PM
Subject: [mso] Excel 2007 - Easily Format Cell as Text
Greetings,
I work a lot with data that is all numbers but has to be formatted as text
due to the leading zeros. Is there an easy way to format the cells as text?
Going to the Home tab (assuming I'm not there) and clicking on the drop down
arrow then scrolling down to text takes more mouse clicks than I'd like. I
know I can use the keyboard shortcuts but what I was hoping to be able to do
is put button the Quick Launch Bar, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
And another question - The comma format button defaults to 2 decimals.
Anyway to change that to 0 decimals? I also work with a lot of data that
needs to be formatted with a comma but without decimal points.
Thanks, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Christine
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