If Jerry from podcast 1052 had been using cell styles to mark his input cells, he could have used advanced options in the Find dialog to clear all of the input cells. Episode 1053 shows you how.
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Transcript of the video:
Hey, welcome back to the MrExcel netcast.
I'm Bill Jelen.
Basically, We start out with massive amount of data.
How we're going to analyze. As well, let's fire up a pivot table.
Let's see if you can solve this problem.
Hey, all right, welcome back to the MrExcel netcast.
I'm Bill Jelen.
Well, now yesterday, Cherry had a question about how to find all of the input cells that were numeric and I used go to special yesterday.
I also commented that it might be good to use cell styles to mark those input cells, where the calculation cells or something like that, and let's say that you had been doing that as you were building this spreadsheet.
Well, the great thing about that other than it makes it easy to see the input cells, is it gives us another way to select that certain class of cells.
I'm going to use instead of go to special this time, I'm going to use find.
So, CTRL+F for find and I want to open up the options, where I have more options and I want to use a format.
So, we open this format drop down and say choose format from cell and I choose one of our cells that are formatted, as an input cell and then do Find All.
Find All, well now, that gives me a list of all the cells that are formatted as input cells and I can do control A here to select all of those cells.
Now, do close and they're all selected.
So, I can do 0, and control+ Enter and zero out all of the input cells throughout.
So, yet another advantage of using cell styles is it makes it easy to find all of the styles that match a certain defined cell style.
Oh hey, I want to thank you for stopping by.
See you next of another netcast from MrExcel.
Well, thanks for stopping by.
See you next time for another netcast form MrExcel.
I'm Bill Jelen.
Basically, We start out with massive amount of data.
How we're going to analyze. As well, let's fire up a pivot table.
Let's see if you can solve this problem.
Hey, all right, welcome back to the MrExcel netcast.
I'm Bill Jelen.
Well, now yesterday, Cherry had a question about how to find all of the input cells that were numeric and I used go to special yesterday.
I also commented that it might be good to use cell styles to mark those input cells, where the calculation cells or something like that, and let's say that you had been doing that as you were building this spreadsheet.
Well, the great thing about that other than it makes it easy to see the input cells, is it gives us another way to select that certain class of cells.
I'm going to use instead of go to special this time, I'm going to use find.
So, CTRL+F for find and I want to open up the options, where I have more options and I want to use a format.
So, we open this format drop down and say choose format from cell and I choose one of our cells that are formatted, as an input cell and then do Find All.
Find All, well now, that gives me a list of all the cells that are formatted as input cells and I can do control A here to select all of those cells.
Now, do close and they're all selected.
So, I can do 0, and control+ Enter and zero out all of the input cells throughout.
So, yet another advantage of using cell styles is it makes it easy to find all of the styles that match a certain defined cell style.
Oh hey, I want to thank you for stopping by.
See you next of another netcast from MrExcel.
Well, thanks for stopping by.
See you next time for another netcast form MrExcel.
