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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Finding and Deleting Phantom Links

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Finding and Deleting Phantom Links If you’ve ever wondered why this message pops up after you are sure you’ve deleted all your workbook’s links, well, join the club. It’s a common problem because some links can … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Enter Zip Codes and Social Security Numbers With Leading Zeros

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Enter Zip Codes and Social Security Numbers With Leading Zeros When you enter numbers that start with a leading zero such as Social Security Numbers or United States zip codes, you must stop Excel from automatically … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Make Dates look Familiar When Combined With Words In A Formula

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Make Your Dates Readable When Combined With Text When combining dates with words in a formula, dates don’t always look like dates in the result. For example, the above picture shows a date in cell A1. … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Organize Your Mailing List With Excel’s Text-To-Columns Feature

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Organize Your Mailing List With Excel’s Text-To-Columns Feature If you are faced with a mailing list where each line of information was entered into a single cell, here’s how you can organize the list by separating … Continue reading

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Toms Tutorials For Excel: Summing Time

Toms Tutorials For Excel: Summing Time In the pictures, the formula in cell B3 is =B2-B1 which returns the elapsed time in hours and minutes between the Start time and the End time. You want the visual value 6:45 (meaning … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Fill Formula to Last Used Row

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Fill Formula to Last Used Row The picture on the left shows a list of numbers in column A starting in cell A2. You have a formula in cell B2 which you want to quickly copy … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Message Box “Carriage Return”

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Message Box “Carriage Return” To start a new line in your Message Box prompt, insert a Visual Basic Carriage Return Line Feed character, coded as vbCrLf. Example macros: Sub MessageBoxNewLinesA() MsgBox “This is sentence 1.” & … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Workbook Creation Date

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Workbook Creation Date If you want to know the creation date and time of the active workbook: Sub MyCreationDate() Dim myDate As Date myDate = ActiveWorkbook.BuiltinDocumentProperties(“Creation date”).Value MsgBox Format(myDate, “mmmm d, yyyy at h:mm:ss AM/PM”), , … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Open, Modify, and Close All Workbooks in a Folder

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Open, Modify, and Close All Workbooks in a Folder This topic touches on a surprise we all got when Microsoft released version 2007, which stopped supporting the VBA FileSearch method. When you need to open all … Continue reading

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