conversion

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    How to change fill color red to clear/white for thousands of interspersed cells?

    I converted an Excel spreadsheet to the open source LibreOffice and Open Office. As a result, it changed many of the fill colors from clear/white to red. I did not want this to happen. Now I am back to using MS Excel 2013. How can I easily change the fill color red back to fill color white...
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    Convert source TXT to a properly formatted CSV

    Greetings - I am attempting to convert a source TXT file to a destination CSV and have it properly formatted as it is in the destination CSV below. If you open the "Destination" text below as a csv, you can see the desired CSV format. I have an .EXE which accomplishes this in Windows XP x86...
  3. X

    need help converting this date in a real date

    need to convert these dates into real date - please note that the first character in the cell is a blank/space which i can trim out i believe. thanks in advance. <tbody> 18-JAN-13 01-FEB-13 15-FEB-13 08-MAR-13 05-APR-13 21-JUN-13 14-DEC-12 21-DEC-12...
  4. J

    Cell being viewed as formula , wanting it only to be sceen as numeric value

    For Inventory, manufacturers barcodes are being imported or scanned into Excel, problem is that Euro barcodes bring in sometimes "=" as a prefix to the numerical value skewing what Excel reads, converting the number sequence into a "formula". I want to understand and convey to Excel that it is...
  5. mosha3

    Date Conversion, Date Quarters, and Adding Quarters

    I am using a date in an exported file; I want to convert it to an Excel recognizable format and basically add three quarters to it so it will reflect the quarter end date three quarters away. For example: Cell A1:20121128 I want Cell A2 to return: 09/30/2013 (Cell A1's quarter ending date...
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    Changing value of a cell by change of value in another cell using a drop down list

    Hi, I have a spreadsheet with numerical data in B1:B11 and textual data in C1:C11. The numerical data is a couple of digits, nothing big, and the textual data is always two letters, in this case AB, AC or AD. I have the options for AB, AC or AD for each of the cells in C1:C11 in a data...
  7. N

    numbers conversion

    Hello, I have problems when these example amounts/figures (in A) are shown using a 3rd party application. Instead of showing the up to two decimal places and with comma (,) if necessary, it only show the following (in B) How can I adjust in the excel in a way that i will get the correct format...
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    Help with creating a formula to convert a Production date to Standard or vice versa

    Hello! I'm new here so bare with me. I recently started working for a company that uses a production date along with the normal date system. It is easy to understand while viewing the calendar but it basically works by week numbers, starting from the beginning of the year, then the individual...
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    Importing large numbers from Excel to Access

    I'm having with an import that involves number that are sixteen digits long. They appear to come in from Excel in scientific notation and all I need on the Access side is a 16-character string that represents the original number. (I need it to be text because that's the way it will be stored on...
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    Convert Feet to Milimeters (Ft to MM) and also with operators

    I have written the following routine that will convert the range that I've selected from Feet to MM. The problem is that I've found that there are a lot of ranges that have operators such as: <30 or 10 - 20 or >60. I need to parse this text so that the result is a string that has the same...
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    Converting Measurements in Radians

    Okay. Here's a stumper (for me at least it is). I need to convert the following into radians: 65 feet/1 second * 12 inches/1 foot * 1 Radian/8 inches I know the answer which should be 97.5 radians. It's just getting the right formula in Excel.
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    corrupt data appearing in file converted from Excel 2007 to text file

    I have text files that I need to modify, using formulas, in Excel 2007, and then convert back to text files. I have tried repeatedly to do this, but have found that my files, once saved and reopened, unpredictably contain cells that are surrounded by quotation marks. This does not affect all...
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    Word 2010 > Excel 2010 Address import question

    Word > Excel 2010 question so I have a document that lists names and addresses like this: Bob Smith 2010 Main Street BR, LA 70808 and I want to create an excel document with columns like Name, address, city, state, zip but I cant just import it into excel the way it is or it all goes into 1...
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    Convert integer to two digit string

    I am trying to write a loop to update files ther are numbered 1-36 but for consistency the file name always has 2 digits filename06.xlsb filename22.xlsb how do i convert the integer that increments from 1-36 to the two digit string for use in the filename refernece?
  15. B

    VBA EXPERTS: I need to make a user form to convert from metric to inches

    Thanks for looking at my post. I need to create a Userform that will pop up on clicking a form control button that has a text box some one can enter in a number in metric and click a button and it convert it to inches. Example: 145.6 to 5.7323 mm inch
  16. E

    Import from text files, not importing as general or text

    I have some numbers in a text file, like 6-1 7-12 8-11 These denote business hours, such as 6AM to 1AM. When I do a conversion, or import into Excel, whether I import them as GENERAL or TEXT, it converts them to dates such as 1-Jun, 12-Jul, 11-Aug. How can I make them import exactly as...
  17. S

    DD to DMS conversion without rounding.

    I stole this from IML on June 25, 2001 11:43 AM tried to PM but I'm new so please don't harp on me too much please! Assuming your number is A1, try the following =INT(A1)&CHAR(186)&" "&INT((A1-INT(A1))*60)&CHAR(145)&" "&ROUND((((+A1-INT(A1))*60)-INT((+A1-INT(A1))*60)),2)*60&CHAR(145) The...
  18. S

    convert TDMS files to XLS or XLSX

    I am currently using Excel 2010 on Windows 7 and running a temperature/voltage/current measurement test at my work using NI test equipment that outputs data in .TDMS file format. This format can be opened using excel. I have a macro that applies a formula to all workbooks in a folder and has...
  19. jasonofshanghai

    Automatically converting all CURRENCY symbols to the ONLY currency selected

    dear Mr.Excel members, could anyone kindly teach me a way, if possible bypassing serious VBA macros, : how to make EXCEL 2007 Automatically convert all my CURRENCY symbols in all cells formatted for CURRENCY in THE SAME SHEET to the one and ONLY currency selected in JUST ONE cell ? (i...
  20. J

    String conversion formula?

    I am hoping for some assistance. I have Windows 7 Home Premium with Microsoft Office 10, using Excel 2010 v.# 14.0.4734.1000 32-bit. I have a tab delineated text document I have imported into excel. I am trying to then format the data to be imported into another program. The following is an...

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