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Student Behaviour Tracker
This is a very cheeky request for help. Now approaching 70 I've forgotten most of what I knew about Excel. I'm a Chair of Governors at an 11-16 school. I receive notifications about pupils who have been suspended (also known as fixed term exclusion). Roughly I have about 200 individual suspensions over 1 year. I want to record and analyse these. The information to record is Name: Last and First (about 30-40 students) Reason for exclusion (usually 1 or possibly 2 out of about 8 categories) Length of exclusion 1 - 15 days Flags e.g. SEND; PP, Year group: 7, 8 , 9 10, 11 Date As many of the students are repeat offenders I'd like to set the spreadsheet up so by either by typing the name or through an editable drop down list the name appears once and then the reason for the suspension and date is entered (as opposed to multiple entries appearing on the same page). I'd then like the spreadsheet to report, using an editable date range: By pupil name; the number of suspensions; total number of days and total number of days for each category of exclusion By suspension category: number of suspensions; total number of days for each category By flag: number of suspensions; total number of days for each category Year group: 7, 8 , 9 10, 11: number of suspensions; total number of days for each category I've looked at some cheap packages e.g. at Etsy but I cant see anything that does this. There are commercial packages, intended for whole school, but cost several hundred - thousand plus, pounds. Thanks in advance if you are interested and my apologies to you if you feel this is an inappropriate request. Regards Nick
Formula Help
I have a spreadsheet I use for bidding construction work. On items 1-40 the formula in cells G22-G65 work like they are supposed to. From G66 to G88 where the sheet stops, the formula returns #NAME?. I've checked the formula from G65 to G66 and below, and they appear to be correct. I can't figure out what the problem is. This is the formula that works. =IF(D65>0,'40'!Rate+$G$18,0) This is the formula that does not work. =IF(D66>0,'41'!Rate+$G$18,0) The '40' and '41' refer to individual sheets within the workbook that contain the data in the !Rate cell. I've been looking at this for hours and can't figure it out. Any help or advice would be great.
Cancelling Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)
I'm a Microsoft CSP provider. My customer wants to cancel their subscriptions because they want to leave the Microsoft. Do I need to cancel their MCA or will it be cancelled automatically? If it is necessary to cancel the MCA, where should this be done? Thank you very much!
Can I restore my whiteboard created by Microsoft Whiteboard UWP?
I created several whiteboards by MS Whiteboard UWP in 2023. As I cannot transfer the data to new Whiteboard, I kept the old version ( Microsoft.Whiteboard_52.10201.5809.0). But days ago MS Store updated it automatically, and I lost my data. I didn't transfer it to OneDrive, so it should be stored on Azure. When I find the update (when it updated the local data should be already removed from my device) and recover the old version and login again today, I find nothing but a new created empty whiteboard, all of my data lost and I cannot access it from the cloud. How can I recover my data?
Publish an Excel Add-in by just submitting the add-in manifest to Microsoft Marketplace
I am working on Excel Add-in built using the react template. We are planning to host the add-in code on our domain and update the manifest to point to the URL for our domain. Can I just submit the add-in manifest to Microsoft to publish it in Microsoft Marketplace?
Stacked Excel Formula
Hello everyone. I've spent the past 2-3 hours trying to figure this out on my own without luck. What I'm needing is a formula that will check D11 (highlighted) to make sure that it's within the parameters listed below it (<17), then I need it to do the same for H11 and I11 (highlighted) and enter the number (1-3) that are not "equal to or greater/less than" into K11. K11 reflects how many samples in Row 11 that are outside of those parameters. I'm trying to make this worksheet more automated and this is the one thing that I cant figure out. Example 1: (all numbers are within parameters, so a 0 is entered into column K) Example 2: (column G is not within the parameters, therefor there is 1 entry in column K)
Link 2 sheets, then sort column A on sheet 2 alphabetically and match correct data
I have two sheets on the same spreadsheet, and I want to pull in the data from 4 different columns to the second sheet and have it automatically update when there are changes or additions to the first sheet. I have a couple issues making this happen - the main one is that the data in my first sheet is custom sorted by color, but I want the new sheet to take the data from column B on sheet 1 and sort it alphabetically, and take the other columns and match them correspondingly to the correct values they match to from column B on the first sheet. Secondly, for blank cells, I want it to leave them blank instead of inputting zero, or any dates. I don't know if this is all even possible, or if I should just remove my custom filters from sheet 1 by cell color and just link it that way. I've spent hours trying to find formulas that work. Please see attached images for reference on what I've tried, and for more clarification as to exactly what I'm requesting. Sorry for the copious redacting, I wanted to be safe rather than sorry with identifiable info regarding this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Time sheet for hours worked
I am needing to make a sheet that shows clocking in for work - clocking out for lunch - clocking in from lunch - clocking out for the day and then the total of those hours worked per day and then grand total for the week. For our pay system we do things in 6 minute increments. I found a sample sheet through Excel, but the formula we have still isnt just right. Here is what I have and the formula for the hours worked is what I am needing help on. Any help is very much appreciated!Microsoft Takes Aim at ChatGPT
Microsoft would very much like Microsoft 365 tenants to use Copilot instead of ChatGPT. A recent comparison between Copilot and ChatGPT outlines some areas that Microsoft thinks are important when deciding which AI tool to use. Microsoft has a point because Copilot is embedded into Microsoft 365 whereas ChatGPT is more of an add-on. The competition for hearts and minds is very intense in the AI space. https://office365itpros.com/2026/02/20/copilot-and-chatgpt/Word - Same Line Page Breaks Visibly Change Formatting
Within the last week or so, Word suddenly has started changing the formatting of visible text when a page break is used on the same line. How can this be corrected? (To be clear, yes, a page break could moved to the next line or deleted if there is not room for the extra line, but this impacts dozens of templates I have been using for years and I just want to set the formatting back to how it has worked in the past, where a page break inserted at the end of a line with centered text did not change the formatting of the visible text in said line.) Example 1 below is how it always used to appear whether the page break was on the same line as the centered title text or not. Example 2 below is how it looks now when the page break is on the same line.Excel returns incorrect answer to simple multiplication.
I'm saving a few favourite math examples, and ran into a problem - the last of the calculations came back with an incorrect answer. I'm using a simple =cell1*cell2 formula. It should end with 21. Please help I'm using android app. All cells formatted as numbers.
Cannot turn off Copilot in MS Word for Windows as "Enable Copilot" is missing...
This is ridiculous. I have spent over 2 hours trying to turn off Copilot in MS Word O365 version. I am running MS Word in I I Windows 11 (updated) and running what I believe is the most current version. I have been able to go into Excel => Options and uncheck the "Enable Copilot". I do not see such a box in Powerpoint (thank God - I don't see it in the app at all) and have been able to turn it off on my Mac Office Apps. I have an O365 account. When I open Word in Windows and then select the Options I get what is displayed below. Do not see the enable coPilot option, but CoPilot is on. This is ridiculous. I have cleaned the registry and I have seen hacks on how to turn off coPilot by butchering the registry, which I refuse to do. I even removed the coPolite App. MS, I DO NOT WANT TO USE AI TO WRITE. How do I get rid of this? I am EXTREMELY frustrated with this. BryanTrying to create a form field that uses images (but not a simple one!)...
I have a Word form that uses a https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/lifelines-toolkit/lifelines-icons used in the public safety community. For each icon, there are four different border colours, indicating a certain level of urgency, using the TLP model - green, yellow, red, grey. What I would like to do is create a dropdown (elsewhere on the form) where someone chooses an option in that field, and depending on the choice, the icon with the corresponding colour displays. Example: Any assistance is appreciated!Access to subAddress Property of Hyperlinks in Powerpoint Javascript API
Recently my company has me developing a Taskpane Add-in for Powerpoint using the Javascript API. Right now the API is still missing a 'subAddress' property for the Powerpoint.Hyperlink class. My heart's deepest longing is to add a slide to a presentation with existing slide-to-slide hyperlinks, check those hyperlinks for discrepancies between the slide ID and the text (ie: a Hyperlink reading '13' that now links to slide 14), and finally correct the text to the subaddress ID of the hyperlink in Javascript. It is my burning passion to do this for every hyperlink in my presentation with the push of a button. In the interest of all mankind I would ask that the 'subAddress' property of the hyperlinks be available for use in addition to the 'address' and 'screenTip' properties which now exist. To the microsoft dev who can grant me this boon I offer half my kingdom. Truly there is no dev more favoured than thee.Tender Tracker formula help
Hello, I am creating a spreadsheet to track tenders for various part numbers so that I can track when each part number is up for renewal. Is it possible to create a formula which based on the tender renewal date, excel would colour fill the row up until that date which is in the top row? Example screenshot. Not sure how to add an excel fileUsing Dev Proxy with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
Dev Proxy is a Microsoft tool built to help developers figure out the most effective way of using Microsoft Graph API requests. On the surface, Dev Proxy doesn’t seem like a tool that would interest people who use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to write scripts for Microsoft 365. But all tools have some use, and Dev Proxy can help. https://office365itpros.com/2026/02/19/dev-proxy-graph-sdk/
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