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Add title over line in XY graphic

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Hi all!

I would like to tag the lines graphed in a XY graphic.

I have the information like this

TASK A (Xstart,Xfinish,Ystart,Yfinish).

Once I draw the line, I would like to tag it with the text "TASK A"

Is this possible in MS Excel?


COMPLETELY Disable Protected View in Excel 2010

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I am currently running Excel 2010 Standard.  In our environment we have an AS400 that can create Excel files (97-2003 format) that earlier versions of Excel would open without an issue.  With Excel 2010 I am unable to open the file, even though I've unchecked all of the Protected View settings.  Is there anyway to disable all of the protected view options from ever running?  I understand it's a security thing, but it is causing more issues in my environment than preventing.

Two finger gesture after grouping cells crashes Excel 2016

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Issue exists in Excel 2016 16.0.4849.1000 64-bit
Windows 10 1903 18362.387

To replicate:
Create a new workbook or open an existing workbook
Select a number of columns
Group the columns (Data -> Group)
Locate the cursor in the new area above the columns (the gray grouping accordion)
Make a two-finger scroll gesture
Excel will crash

Hardware Acceleration on/off - still crashes
Two finger scroll on/off - still crashes
wired mouse - scrolling does not crash

We cannot narrow down the root cause, it currently happens for both grouped and subtotaled cells (Left hand accordion area)

Link/Auto Update Excel/Access/Word/PPT

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Hi All,

I have a presentation/memo that is typically done in Word or Powerpoint that contains an overview of a financial model, which is prepared in Excel. I spend countless hours updating numbers in the non-Excel apps, once changes to the model are made. I have to imagine there is some way to automate this. I had two thoughts but have not figured out how to execute. I have thought about using Access and a Word form, but there is typically a lot of text that is constantly modified and a form wouldn't work.

I need the ability to sync a chart object and data fields WITHOUT linking. These files go to and from clients and linking is not possible.

All the fields could be named ranges for ease of coding. An example of one sentence with fields I would like to pull in brackets ( "[ ]" ):

The project requires [$XXmm] initial capital outlay, with an additional [$XXmm] outlay spread evenly over the first [X] years. Incremental income is expected to be [$Xmm] in year [X], increasing by [X%] per year into perpetuity.

Thanks in advance!

John

Issue with Formula implementation

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Iam currently working on a report, and facing issue with following implemetation

"=IF(InterActive_Chart_TableName_2 = "Weekly_Data", INDEX(LP_TableDataCrunch, ROW()-2, MATCH(InterActive_Chart_ColumnName_2, LP_TableDataCrunch[#Headers], 0)), SUMIFS(INDIRECT("FB_Data_Table["&InterActive_Chart_ColumnName_2&"]"), Lilly_Pulitzer_Data[Market], Market_Selected, Lilly_Pulitzer_Data[Year], [@Year], Lilly_Pulitzer_Data[Month],[@Month]))

resulting "#REF!" issue

#REF! is pointing to formula =IF(InterActive_Chart_TableName_2 = "Weekly_Data", "Use crunch column", "Use data formula")

can some let me know what are different possible errors here 

Active X Controls On Excel Sheet Glitch

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Hi All,

I have an excel file with multiple sheets, within those sheets I have multiple Active X Controls (Checkboxes, & Command Buttons). Whenever someone opens up my file who has a different screen size / different resolution screen then me, the user has problems where when they click on those controls, the text seems to zoom in each time they click on them. This also happens to me when I take my laptop off my docking station(I use a dual monitor set-up) and try to work with my file, unless I restart excel and then open up my file. I read online about this glitch and haven't found a solution anywhere. I did notice that you can prevent this from happening by closing out of all your excel tabs and restarting excel and having the file with the Active X Controls open first.

The file I'm working on will be used by a wide variety of people and even though restarting excel isn't the biggest problem...I just wanted to know if there was a way to prevent this.

Thank you for your help!

Odd behaviour with PasteSpecial when using tables

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I have a workbook containing 2 tables.  The first is a 'master' table containing various data validation and conditional formatting rules.  This master table is hidden from the casual user.

The second table is the real table where users enter their data, etc.

Each time the workbook is opened, VBA is used to copy / paste-special the master table over the top of the user table, in order to make sure all DV and CF rules are 'repaired' (e.g. in case the user has broken them using copy/paste type operations).

My code looks approximately like:

Dim oTblMaster as ListObject
Dim oTblUser as ListObject

' Appropriate code to get/set these 2 variables from the relevant worksheets goes here ...

oTblMaster.DataBodyRange.Copy

oTblUser.DataBodyRange.PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats
oTblUser.DataBodyRange.PasteSpecial xlPasteValidation

My Master table is small (only 10 rows), whereas the User table has many more rows.

I find that xlPasteFormats works fine; all rows of the entire user table are updated with the correct format/conditional format rules.  However, xlPasteValidation does not work.  Only the first 10 rows of the User table are updated?!

Seems like an Excel bug to me?  Worse still, when I tried the above code on a clean / empty workbook with only 2 example tables, it all worked fine.  I've no idea what in my file is causing the xlPasteValidation to fail.  I can't really post the file here unfortunately.

Anybody seen anything similar?

Counting rows until sum value reached

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Hello,
I am not able to make such simple thing work.

Sheet contains values in column N and rows 10-500, I need to add these values until sum is equal or higher than some arbitrary value.

When equal value or first higher value is reached, I need to count the number of rows used to reach the value.

Actually these rows represent months and arbitrary value is to be raches for invesment to return. There are few guides how to do this but it does not work for me. Tried to modify but without success.  Thank you.

Pete

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The database driver does not include necessary capabilities and cannot be used with Excel. Contact your database administrator or driver vendor.

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I am getting this the below error while expanding a table, that is being used in the filter. We have other tables as well, but the issue is not coming in it. I have an OLAP Cube and I am using Excel 2016.

"The database driver does not include necessary capabilities and cannot be used with Excel. Contact your database administrator or driver vendor."

Kindly help me with a solution at the earliest.


Need assistance for California overtime formulas

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Hi all,

I have a spreadsheet to calculate hours with the column headings as follows:

  • Start Time
  • End Time
  • Regular Hours
  • OT Hours
Here are the factors involved with California OT.
  • > 8 hours per day = 1.5 OT
  • > 12 hours per day = 2.0 OT
  • > 40 hours per week = 1.5 OT
  • on the 7th consecutive work day, the first 8 hours = 1.5 OT, and 2.0 OT afterwards

I am able to get the basic formulas with no issues.  It gets complicated when trying to figure out the regular hours, without displaying over 40.  For example, if one worked 7 hours for 5 days straight, on the 6th day how do I display the hours worked without going over 40.  The additional hours over 40 would then be calculated in the OT column.  There is also an additional factor, when one works 7 consecutive days and the pay rate changes. 


Power Pivot drillthrough limited to 1000 rows

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Hello,

I am using Excel 2016, I made connection to an external Excel file and used Power Pivot to analyze the data. When I double clicked on one of the results, it only returned the first 1000 rows. I followed an online article (for Excel 2013), but the option to increase the number of results is greyed out.

Is there a new feature in 2016 to solve this?

Thank you,

Amy

Is there a MID function that starts from the right?

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Hello,

Is there a function or a string of functions that work the same as =MID(Cell;Start;end), but instead of starting on the left side, it starts on the right side. A bit like in the example below.
Thanks in advance.

Example:

Black20        -->       =MID(Cell;3;100)       -->      Black

Yellow66        -->       =MID(Cell;3;100)       -->      Yellow

DoIt4Her91        -->       =MID(Cell;3;100)       -->      DoIt4Her


Files in Document Recovery when AutoRecover is turned Off

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We have unchecked the "Save AutoRecover information every X minutes" option in Excel 2016. In the registry we also have the following set to 0.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Options\AutoRecoverEnabled (DWORD 32-bit)

However, Excel still keeps showing up Files in Document Recovery pane even though they are deleted from the original location. In the course of time number of files reaches to thousands, which results in the very slow start of the Excel. However, if we close that pane manually performance/start time is back to normal. However, we cannot do that manually as Excel is opened/closed programmatically on these VMs so it is not possible to clear these files manually.

Now, the question is, how do we turn this Auto Recovery completely OFF, as mentioned above we have already unchecked the "Save AutoRecover information every X minutes" option in Excel, registry setting to do the same is also there, what else needs to be done to turn it OFF completely.

Create a command button in Excel that automatically exports a row(s) from the spreadsheet into an Access database.

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All,

When I search for this request, I get a lot of advice on how to import an Excel spreadsheet into Access, but not much on exporting an Excel spreadsheet (a range really) into Access.  I want to do this as a command button where:

User Imports rows into Excel from Access (already done).

User makes modifications to rows in Excel.

User clicks a button to send updated information from Excel back into Access.  

There will be no rows added here only updated.  I know that it might be better to do all of the work in Access, but I am limited for time to revamp the whole process as opposed to making this one change.

Regards,

SquirrelMan

I can open personal.xlsb on one computer, but not another: 'Excel cannot open the file personal.xlsb because the file format or file extension is not valid.'

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Hi all.  On my desktop computer I've added a file PERSONAL.XLSB to a folder (`D:\gdrive\bin\Excel`).  I have then specified Excel to look for XLSB files in this folder on startup.  When Excel opens, Excel reads this XLSB file as desired.  I am trying to repeat this process on a second computer, but when I open Excel on that computer, it displays the error message:

> Excel cannot open the file personal.xlsb because the file format or file extension is not valid.  Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file.

Any ideas how to resolve this?

**More Info**

* Both systems are running Win 10, Excel 2013.

* I've tried all the suggestions here, namely:

> Navigate to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View and uncheck all the 3 options:

--Enable Protected View for Files originating from the Internet.

--Enable Protected View for Files located in potentially unsafe locations.

--Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments.

> Also, click on Privacy Options in the left-hand pane and make sure to uncheck the 4th option Check Microsoft Office documents that are from or link to suspicious Web sites.

* I also tried these suggestions, namely:

> Clear the files from Excel startup folders from the locations mentioned below:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\XLStart (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\XLStart in case of 64-bit O/S).
C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

Thanks in advance.

 

How to prevent table from growing in size, but allows for new rows

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I have a sheet that has a specified number of rows I can show for a table.

I'd like to be able to lock the tables size so it doesn't grow on screen, but still allows new rows to be added.

So when scrolling within the table you only see 10 rows of data, but the table could contain a total of 20 rows, but only 10 are viewable at a time. Would like to be able to scroll up or down within the table to see other rows.

I think of it as if trying to embed a 20 row table within a 10 row viewable table.

PowerPivot in Excel 2016 Data Model Lost -- Empty

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I am facing a most frustrating error with Excel 2016. Random loss of the data model. It happens most frequently if you open more then one instance of Excel. I make constant backups as I go but tonight even the most recent backup did not have the data model and this time I was working on a single file. What is going on? I never once lost the data model in 2013.

Hours of work is lost by this bug! Does anyone have a fix? 

Thanks,

Ken

Powerpivot data import hangs excel 2016

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When attempting to import an Excel file into PowerPivot, Excel 2016 hangs. Here are the steps I use:

Open Excel, Blank workbook

Select PowerPivot from the menu ribbon

Select Manage; PowerPivot window opens

Select Get External Data; From Other Sources

Select Excel File; then Next

Browse to File location; select file. I don't get an opportunity to select Open.  

Excel hangs

Environment: Windows 10, Office 2016 32-bit

SUMIFS?

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Can I achieve multiple conditions with a formula of SUMIFS?

=SUMIFS($L$2:$L$302501,$A$2:$A$302501,"<>3"...?)

Please help! Thank you!

Excel Calendar

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Can we link calendar template in Excel to data from SharePoint list ? 
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