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MS Excel Tips – Find Duplicates from 2 columns

DSP — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:47:25 +0000

It will be hard sometimes to find the duplicates in a spreadsheet. There is no easy way to do it. Expert have designed many macros but not everyone can buy it.

You can use formula to find that out. This is very helpful when you want to eliminate the duplicates from an email listing and also many things similar to this.

I have searched and found that Microsoft Support center has the explanation.

Visit the page below

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213367

This works with MS Excel 2003 and MS Excel 2007

Your suggestions and questions help me bring better information to you.

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MS Excel Tips and Tricks – Change the Cell format from Text to Number

DSP — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:55:35 +0000

When you use Microsoft Excel, You will sometimes find that the numbers are not calculated properly. This is mainly because of the cell format.

Excel accepts Text and the Number input, it has the great capability to interpret between two. All the Excel cells are in General format, when you start working on any Excel sheet It automatically allots the format to each cell based on the characters inside.

If you see any cells containing the numbers but are aligned left side, you need to understand that the cell format is in Text mode. Whenever you see the numbers in any cells arranged in right side, The cell format is in Number.

The calculation only works if you have the cell in numbers format

You can change the format from Text to Number by following the method below

Click on any empty cell and right click

Choose cell formatting

You will see a menu opening as seen below

Under the Number Tab, Click number as shown in the image

Choose the decimal you want to have, make it �0� if you do not want any decimal

Click OK to save

Now type �1� in the cell that you have changed the format, Press enter

Then copy the cell

Now select all the cells that you want to be changed to Number formatting

Then right click and choose Paste Special

Excel will give you Paste special Options as seen below

Choose Multiply

Then click OK, Do not change any other values

Now you will see all the selected cell formatting changed to Numbers and Excel automatically aligns the numbers to the right side

Now your calculation should work

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MS Excel Tips and Tricks – Remove or Add Fixed Decimal Points

DSP — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:01:24 +0000

Sometimes you will see Microsoft excel sheet adds the decimal points with all the numbers that you enter. You can remove that from happening.

If you want to add the decimal points in every number you enter you can also do that.

Open the Excel Sheet
Go to Tools
Click Options

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Click the Edit tab
As highlighted in the above image, you will see the fixed decimal option
If you want the Excel to automatically enter the decimal points check the Fixed Decimal option, also you can choose how many decimal points that you want to have
If you want to remove the automatic decimal points, un check the Fixed decimal points
Click Ok to save the settings
Now any number you enter you will see the changes

This is applicable to Microsoft Office 2003, Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.

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MS Excel Tips and Tricks – Hide or Unhide scroll bar

DSP — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:25:03 +0000

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You can hide the vertical scroll bar or the horizontal scroll bar in any excel work book.
Go to Tools menu
Click Options

The options window opens as seen above
Just uncheck the Horizontal scroll bar to hide the Horizontal scroll bar. Check or uncheck the Vertical scroll bar to hide or unhide
You can also hide the sheets tab by unchecking the Sheets tabs check box
and click OK, you will see the changes in your excel
You can make this default in all the excel workbooks that you open by editing the template file

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MS Excel Tips and Tricks – How to insert Date and Time in Header or Footer

DSP — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:11:40 +0000

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You can insert Custom Headers and Custom Footers in any Microsoft Excel worksheet, so when you print, you will automatically see the custom header or footer in all the pages that you print.

Open the Excel sheet that you want to have the date and time header or footer
Go to View menu
Click Header and Footer
You will see the Page setup window opening
Click the Custom Header if you want the date and Time to be set on top of every page
Click the Customer Footer, if you want the date and time to be set on bottom of every page

I am going to set this on header
When you click on custom header, you will see one more option window opening. You have 3 areas to set up the date and time. Click left empty pane if you want to set the date and time on left. Click center or right to set it accordingly.

Click the Date Icon to insert the Date
Click the time icon to insert the Time
And click OK to exit this menu
Now lets see the print preview

So now I have the Date and Time on every page I print from this MS Excel Sheet. You need to do this on every excel sheet that you want to have this set up.
If you want to set it by default on all the excel that you create, you need to edit the excel template
If you want to delete this Header and Footer
Go to View, click Header and Footer
Click Custom Header or Custom Footer
Delete the Characters inside the right or center or left side of the option window
Click ok

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Excel Tips and Tricks – Hide Gridlines

DSP — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:22:23 +0000

You can hide the excel gridlines by doing the following
Open Microsoft Excel sheet that you want to hide the gridlines
Go to Tools and click Options
You will see a small option window opening as below
At the bottom of the section under View tab, you will see the gridline option
Uncheck the gridlines options

Then click Ok
Now you will see all the gridlines disappeared. You can reactivate the gridlines by checking the gridlines in the options menu

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MS Excel Tips and Tricks Hide Worksheet(S)

DSP — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:16:11 +0000

You can hide Microsoft Excel worksheet from any work book
Open the Workbook that you want to hide the excel worksheets from
Select the sheet that you want to hide
You can also select the multiple worksheets, changes will appear in all the sheets
Go to Format menu
Click Sheet and Hide

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You will see the selected Excel worksheets vanishing from the view
If you want to unhide the sheets go to Format menu
Select sheet and Unhide

You will get a message window asking for confirmation to open a specific Excel sheet
Select the Excel worksheet that you want to unhide

You can unhide the multiple worksheets one by one, you cannot unhide them all together.
Applicable to Microsoft Excel 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2007

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Ms Excel Tips and Tricks Hide or Unhide Excel workbook

DSP — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:07:00 +0000

You can hide any Microsoft excel workbook or sheets.
To hide a work book open the work book
Click Window menu
Click hide

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The current workbook will be hidden from the view
When you close the MS Excel, If you have not saved the excel work book earlier, you will be prompted for the ms excel to be saved
You can find the Ms excel in the same folder but when you open you will not see any content
If you want to unhide a work book, open the MS excel and go to Windows menu and click Unhide

Ms Excel will ask you which one of the hidden files that you want to open
Choose the file that you want to open

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MS-Excel Tips and Tricks – Change the Gridline color

DSP — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:30:44 +0000

Microsoft excel gridline are the ones that are around the cell in Grey color. By default excel has the grey color as the cell gridline border color.

You can change the Excel gridline color of a MS excel sheet by following the methods below.

Open MS Excel
Go to Tool
Click Options
You will see the small options windows opening as seen below

At the bottom of the excel options window you will see Window Options
You will also se Gridlines color
Choose the color that you want and click OK

Now you will see the MS excel gridline colors change to the new one that you have selected

Remember this is only applicable to one sheet that you select, if you want this gridline color change in all the Excel sheet in a work book, Group them before changing the color. To group all the sheet, hold shift key and click the first sheet then the last sheet.

To ungroup, right click on any excel sheet tab and select Ungroup

If you want this gridline color to affect all the excel workbook, you need to change the template.

This is applicable to MS Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.

MS office Tips – Add files to favorites for easy access

DSP — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:22:47 +0000

Open the file that you want to add in to your Favorite list

If you have made any changes to the file after opening, you need to save it.

Go to View menu

Click Toolbars and select Web

You will see the toolbars as seen below

Click the Favorites button and save the file

Now when you open the Internet Explorer or Excel with the Web toolbar enabled, you can easily access the file.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please post a comment

Open any Microsoft(MS) Office program as a copy

DSP — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:30:05 +0000

Click open in the MS office program like MS excel or MS Word or any other Ms office programs.

Navigate and locate the file that you want to open

Click the arrow next to the open button

You will see the list of menu as seen below

Click open as copy

Ms office will automatically create a copy of the file and will open the file that you need as a copy.

This will create a copy of the file in the same folder.

You can also Open files in read only mode by clicking Open Read-Only

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MS Excel Work Sheet Tips and Tricks

DSP — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:27:58 +0000

How to Delete, insert, Organize, Color, group, Move or Copy work Sheets in Microsoft Excel?

Insert Excel Sheet

If you want store more related data and differentiate various information, you do not need to create multiple spreadsheets or Excel files.

You just need to insert many sheets and customize it as needed.

One simple way of creating a sheet in the same workbook is by pressing “Shift+F11″ (Hold Shift key and press F11) You will see a new sheet created.

There is another method to create a new sheet with more options as follows

Right click on the sheets tab to get the menu like below

MS Excel insert Sheet

Click on the “Insert” menu

MS Excel will give you the below option

Ms Excel Insert Sheet Options

I do not want to deviate from this topic, so I am not going to explain all the options here. Click on the worksheet icon or the image

If you want to choose any other sheet type, like a chart or other downloaded template you can select the same

Click OK to insert the sheet and Excel will add a new sheet as below

MS Excel Insert Sheet

Most of us want only to insert a plain worksheet so I suggest the fastest way to Press the Shift+F11

How to Delete a sheet?

Right Click on the Sheets Tab and Excel will give a you a menu to select.

Click “Delete”

Ms Excel Delete Sheet

When you delete a sheet, Excel will ask you for a confirmation, because you cannot get the data back. It will be lost forever.

When you delete a sheet without any data, Excel will not ask for the confirmation, and it will just delete the sheet.

MS Excel delete-sheet-confirmation while Data is in the sheet

How to Rename Excel worksheet?

Right click on the sheets tab

Excel Rename Sheet

Excel will give you the menu to choose as below

Click “Rename”

The menu will disappear and the back ground of the sheet name is highlighted

Ms Excel rename sheet

Now you can type the name you desire and Rename the sheet

How to Move or Copy a sheet?

Right Click the Sheets tab

Excel will give you the menu to select “Move or Copy” option

Ms Excel Move or Copy

Move and Copy both function are in the same option, so it may be little confusing

Excel Move or Copy option

Ms Excel Move or Copy to current workbook

If you want to Move a sheet to the end position, just click “Move to end” and then Click “OK”. Do not click any other options

If you want to copy a sheet multiple times in the same workbook then click the check box at the bottom as shown in the below image

Excel Copy Sheet to current workbook

You can choose the location you want to copy the sheet. Before which sheet or at the end position or to another excel file or to a new workbook

If you want to Move any sheet or sheets within your current workbook, the simplest way is to drag the sheet to the desired position.

If you want to Move or copy the sheet to another workbook or excel file, do the following.

If you want to copy make sure the check box is clicked, you do not need to check the box if you want to move the sheet

Excel Move or Copy to another Excel sheet

I have 2 excel workbook opened

one is ” All Acc leads.csv”

another one is “Book1″ which we are working currently

Excel gives me the option to choose where to move or copy the sheet.

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Technology Help Center » Ms Excel

MS Excel Tips – Find Duplicates from 2 columns

MS Excel Tips and Tricks – Change the Cell format from Text to Number

MS Excel Tips and Tricks – Remove or Add Fixed Decimal Points

MS Excel Tips and Tricks – Hide or Unhide scroll bar

MS Excel Tips and Tricks – How to insert Date and Time in Header or Footer

Excel Tips and Tricks – Hide Gridlines

MS Excel Tips and Tricks Hide Worksheet(S)

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MS-Excel Tips and Tricks – Change the Gridline color

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MS Excel Work Sheet Tips and Tricks

How to Delete, insert, Organize, Color, group, Move or Copy work Sheets in Microsoft Excel?

Insert Excel Sheet

How to Delete a sheet?

How to Rename Excel worksheet?

How to Move or Copy a sheet?