Tag: Excel
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How to Hide and Unhide Cells in Microsoft Excel
This is a great little how-to on hiding and unhiding cells in Microsoft Excel: http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelformatting/qt/070814unhidecol.htm
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Negative Time Values In Excel
I was trying to set up a simple time sheet in Excel. I know that ready-made ones exist, but it’s more fun and educating to make your own, right? And I came across a nasty problem: Excel doesn’t like to display negative time: Turns out there’s a simple solution for this: Enable the 1904 dating […]
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Summing up times in Excel
It’s the small things, sometimes – something I never needed to do in my old jobs is calculating with time. One very simple task is to just add up a set of times – Excel will “wrap around” at 24h: There’s a simple solutions for this problem. Just surround your hours with square brackets when […]
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Using Excel (and OpenOffice) to Create Timelines
Looking for a way to easily and automatically create timelines, I came across an awesome post by Jon Witwer: How to Create a Timeline in Excel. It’s not exactly the same in OpenOffice, but it works too (I tested it with LibreOffice, actually).
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Excel Formula to get Number of Days in a Month
It seems Excel still can’t tell me the days in a particular month. The following formula works, though: =DAY(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+1,1)-1) Obviously, A1 has to have a date in it. Works like a charm: Update, much, much later: Looks like LibreOffice has a DAYSINMONTH function.