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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:41:23 +0000

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By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:59:14 +0000

Dylan -

Formulas have no idea about formatting. But try this procedure:

Copy the original range.
Select the top left cell of the new range.
Paste Special – Links
Paste Special – Formats

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:41:17 +0000

Hello,

I am trying to translate text from one worksheet of an excel document to another worksheet using the “formula” function of excel, which usually does a good job of automatically moving text from one sheet to another, or from one cell to another. However, I always lose my formatting when I do this. I want to maintain the italic, bold, etc. formatting of the original cell when I move the contents using the formula. Is this possible?

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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:13 +0000

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By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:38 +0000

@Chadlar… excel 2003 file sizes are more than excel 2007. If the sheet has only data, I am sure the size of file should be reasonable.

By: Chadlar

Chadlar — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:35:46 +0000

Im having difficulty extracting data from a large spreadsheet so it is able to be sent in outlook. The main s/sheet exceeds the maximum outlook attachment size able to be sent. so what im trying to do is copy part of the spreadsheets formats into a new workbook and then copy the values (eliminating formulas) into the copied formatted cells. the only problem is that the file size of the new workbook still majorly exceeds the maximum outlook attachment capability, thus i have to compress the file still. i need to avoid compressing the file as some of the companies i deal with wont allow compressed files through their firewall. the data that is being copied is no more than a few hundred lines so i dont see why the files are always so large. for info, the main s/sheet is on excel 2007 and im converting the new workbook to 2003 before sending it.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:58:41 +0000

@Janet… I would check the following…

> is the font color set to White?
> Are you able to paste the word text anywhere else? (say in a notepad file?)
> Does the word content has too many page breaks or special characters (or even tabs) in the beginning? If so, the content might have been pasted, only somewhere in the bottom or right.
> Copy the word content, come to excel, press ALT+E then S. Now select “text” option. See what happens.
> Alternatively, paste word content in a notepad file, now copy that and paste it in excel.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:20:54 +0000

I am hoping someone can lead me in the right direction. I am trying to copy text from a WORD document and paste it into an Excel document. The paste is not displaying visible data. It appears that the data is pasted because the cursor is placed several spaces down as if the data is there but the data in the cell is not displaying/visible. I have pasted WORD text into this same Excel document before but all of a sudden I cannot paste any WORD text from any WORD document into this Excel document and it display. Any ideas?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:29:54 +0000

Excel helpfully remembers the last text-to-columns settings that you have used. You can only reset it indirectly.

Select a cell, go to Edit menu > Text To Columns, Delimiters, uncheck everything except Tabs.