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Wed 8 Apr 2009, 16:11 Delegate Steven said...

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Formatting

What is conditional formatting?

Wed 8 Apr 2009, 17:22 Trainer Simon said...

RE: Formatting

Hi Steven,

Thank you for your question.

If you have a column of figures ranging from 100 to 10000, you can format those cells if they meet a particular condition.

E.g. if the cells are greater than 5000, then format those cells in green font with a yellow background. You can then add two addtional conditions such as:

cells greater than 2000 format the font in red and if the cells are less than 2000 then format the font in Blue.

The benefit of this, is as the cell values change, they may meet another condition so the formatting will change accordingly.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

Simon

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Convert Text to Columns in Excel 2010

If you have a cell in your Excel spreadsheet that contains a lot of text and you want to divide it into separate columns, this can only be done if there is a logical character which separates the text, for example, a comma.

Select the cells you would like to convert. On the Data tab, click Text to Columns. Choose the format of your current data.

Select Delimited if the text contains a logical character otherwise select Fixed Width if there are a certain number of spaces between each field.

Click Next when a preview of the data appears. Then select the type of character that separates the various fields. If the character is not listed, select Other and enter the character.

Click Next again and then choose the format for each of the columns. Select the column heading in the Data preview and then select a data type from the Column data format options.

Click Finish and the text will appear in several columns.

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