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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody Loungerjust include a CHR(10) somewhere in your setting. If you START with CHR(10), then the footer will be below other lines.
Activesheet.pagesetup.leftfooter=chr(10) & activeworkbook.fullname -
WSBobUmlas
AskWoody Loungerok, then after it’s been calculated and you want to keep it, copy/paste special values in place.
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody Loungeruse range(“x”).formula = range(“x”).value — but what’s the problem if it recalcs?
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerYes — instead of using the button on the forms toolbar, use the button from the control box toolbar. Then, right-click the button & bring up Properties window where you’ll find you can change the forecolor/backcolor of the button. Right-click again for the View Code to associate it with code.
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody Loungerformat the cell as:
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody Lounger=INT(RAND()*100000000)
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerOctober 8, 2001 at 7:42 am in reply to: Returning co-ordinates of the active cell (Excel 2000) #1788956If you’ve already activated the cell, then activecell.column can be used as the 2nd coordinate (you said the row is always 1.
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerSee attachment
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerOctober 5, 2001 at 11:03 pm in reply to: count text differences between two cell (ranges) (Excel 2000) #1788932Hey, it works! You CAN write a UDF, I suppose, but you wanted builtin.
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerOctober 5, 2001 at 10:59 pm in reply to: count text differences between two cell (ranges) (Excel 2000) #1788930=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,”(“,””),”)”,””),”+”,””),” “,””),”-“,””),”.”,””)
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerOctober 5, 2001 at 10:19 pm in reply to: count text differences between two cell (ranges) (Excel 2000) #1788928I don’t understand “strip any number of selected characters”…?
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerOctober 5, 2001 at 9:38 pm in reply to: count text differences between two cell (ranges) (Excel 2000) #1788926Given what you had to write to simulate a MUCH shorter array formula, I think it’d be advantageous to learn about array formulas. Check out
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerOctober 5, 2001 at 9:00 pm in reply to: count text differences between two cell (ranges) (Excel 2000) #1788922Or a bit shorter:
=IF(COUNTA(A1:B1)2,””,SUM(1*(MID(A1,ROW(1:100),1)MID(B1,ROW(1:100),1))) )
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WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerSure there is —
/ohr
The leading slash activates the menus, the is for format, the h for sheet, the r for rename. -
WSBobUmlas
AskWoody LoungerWe weren’t talking about time, but about numbers. In either case, NOTHING will pass a test of being both 12 in VBA, not even 12:30.
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