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Looking up specific period financials from multiple period worksheet
Hello, I have the following sample data: The data from Column I onwards is in a different worksheet in the layout that you see above. I need to be able to bring in the July data as shown from Cols C to E. One easy way would be to concatenate the month with the Sector and Currency headings in rows 3 & 4. For example, JulyADRUSD and then do a nested xlookup to bring in July ADR USD Accounts Receivable information. However this would mean creating a new row for my concat field. Is there any other way we can fetch the required information? Hope you can point me in the right direction. Thank you.
Excel Code trying to copy cell data from one sheet to another based on 2 criteria
Sheet "My Plan" Sheet "Tracker" I have several plans in external files that I have code for to select and import 1 to sheet "My Plan". I am using cell E6 as a named cell called PlanName and I select the name of the plan from a dropdown. Column D which is "Unique ID" Column I which is "Baseline Date" Column L which is "% Complete" Sheet "Tracker" is a Table called "Table1" I am looking for code (which I will activate by a button) which will look on sheet "Tracker" column Name "Workstream / Project" and if it doesn't match "PlanName" then go to the next row. If it matches then it needs to compare from sheet "My Plan" column D with sheet "Tracker" field "Plan Unique ID". If they are the same it needs to copy sheet "My Plan" column I and L to sheet "Tracker" fields "Baseline Due Date" and "Percentage Complete %". Great if you can help
Locked out from O365 admin account
Hi! I am locked out from my non-protif organizations O365 admin-account. When trying to login, it ask for the authenticator code, but my authenticator app tells me to login and to login it needs an authenticator code..... I cant contact the O365 support since I cannot login. I found a phone number and talked to some AI bot, but it could not understand when I said the domain name of our organization and shut me down after 3 attempts. So - I have no way to login and handle my organizations account. Can someone please advice how to solve this, or how to get in touch with an actual human being in O365 support???
Excel formula stopped working
I have a work book with 6 sheets in it, tracking grain sales. Two sheets have stopped calculating the formula the more lines we use. I have to drag it across the cells to get it to calculate all of a sudden instead of it auto-calculating. Im not sure if its a rounding issue that causes it to stop working? I was told previously that this has happened and thats what they thought it was, but the girl at my work that created the spreadsheet, is no longer here. My boss doesnt remember how to fix it. Any ideas?
Profit/Loss per Day Calendar
Hi All, I am looking for formula for these 2 items. 1. Want total Profit/Loss per date in Calendar (E.g. Total Profit on 02 Feb 2022 was -90.65). 2. If Profit Cell to be Green, If Loss cell to be Red Link to Excel Sheet. https://1drv.ms/x/s!AlvQCyQGg78NgkNEsm2PYzAfJIEo?e=bF7ctcColumn width after Column Insert
Greetings. Is there a way to insert a column between two columns and have the column widths adjust automatically? For instance, Column A is 20 wide and Column B is 60 wide and Column C is 30 wide. If I insert a new column between A & B, I want the New column to be the default width, the new Column C (which was B) to maintain its width of 60, not change to 30. In other words, is there a way to have column widths shift with their columns?Have multiple CONVERT cells update when any one cell's value is changed
I want to create an excel document that helps my team set correct parameters (Max feed rate, acceleration, etc...) for various CNC machine controllers that use different units of measurement. I know the formulas, and understand how CONVERT works, and can set it up so that, for example ## "/min in one cell converts to ##mm/s in another. What I would like to do is have this work so that when any of the cell values are changed all the rest of the related cells update accordingly based on the conversion applied to their cell. For example, depending on the machine and controller, I can have axis accelerations presented in four different units: mm/s^2 mm/min^2 in/s^2 in/min^2 I would like to be able to have all four of the above cells be populated with the correct acceleration value, and when any one of the four is updated the remaining three cells are all automatically updated to reflect this change. My initial research shows I will likely need to use Macros/VBA, but I have yet to come across an example use case similar to mine. I would appreciate knowing if this can be done, if I am on the right track with using macros, and any suggestions as to how it can be accomplished. If I can get it to work for the above example I feel I can take that experience and apply it to the other parameters. Thank you, TomInvited to external M365 group - how add to Outlook 365
Hi all, I have been invited to an M365 group from an external organisation. I have accepted the invitation. I can view the group via the link in the email. I expected the group to appear in Outlook 365 but it hasn't. Can I add the Group to Outlook manually, or at all? thanks j
User Microsoft 365 Apps Freeze when Trying to Save
Having a strange issue with one of our users when using Microsoft 365 Apps on a Windows 11 system. The original behavior reported was when he was trying to save a document to OneDrive. He gets a processing box but it never completes and the app freezes. Then he noticed if you just did a Save As from any of the Office Apps you get the blank page and the app freezes. Sometimes a reboot resolves the issue but only for a short time. Here are some items we have tried to this point: Have tried pausing synching in OneDrive repairing office 365 Reinstalling office 365 Saved to downloads > Can reopen document but when trying to save as again the page is blank. Will either have to force close in task manager or let it sit until "waiting for another application to complete an OLE action" then closing Pausing auto save to cloud in word/outlook/excel Disconnecting the OneDrive sync and re-connecting seem to work at first but after an hour or so we saw the same behavior. We decided to set him up on a brand new system and after we set things up the issue followed. We are seeing the same behavior on the new system. One item of note is we have a third laptop which has an old version of Office using the ODT installer which is working fine with his account. The other two laptops that are failing have the latest Office 365 software downloaded from the portal. Not sure if this is an issue on the backend with his account or some other type of issue. Just wanted to see if anyone has ran into this issue before. Thanks.Rack of Lambda
There’s been a lot of content shared recently to commemorate the upcoming 40th anniversary of Microsoft Excel. Personally, I’ve only been using Excel for around half that time, but October also marks my 2-year anniversary since "joining the conversation" on this forum. As a gift from me to you (anyone interested), I’ve spent some time over the past few weeks revisiting old posts, updating methods I shared previously and packaging them into a collection of generalized Lambda functions to assist with a variety of common array manipulation and transformation scenarios. The attached file contains some 35+ Lambda functions, ranging from very simple concepts to much more advanced techniques. You can also import them directly from my gist, if desired. While they were all compiled and composed of my own accord, I would be remiss if I failed to credit the community and its members as a major resource in my own development. The amount of knowledge, tips and tricks gained through community collaboration is simply invaluable. You may notice some recurring themes in the way I’ve written many of the functions. For example, I like to keep the optional arguments as simple as possible, using either Boolean values passed to IF, or numeric options from 0 to 3 passed to CHOOSE. Also, many of the array transformation functions use TOCOL-IF-SEQUENCE in one way or another, with MOD-QUOTIENT-SEQUENCE used only a few times in the more complex algorithms (e.g. HWRAP and VWRAP). The collection also includes a few examples of Lambda recursion, the most notable being PF (Prime Factorization). CROSSJOINM was written as a "how-to" demonstration for filtering multiple optional arguments using LAMBDA and NOT-ISOMITTED. There’re also some powerful scanning functions like SCAN3, which can handle multiple input arrays, as well as EVALS with VALS2 to VALS7, which can store and recall multiple variables at each iteration (useful for corkscrew calculations). What you won’t find, however, are methods that use INDEX in an iterative manner with functions like MAKEARRAY, SCAN, etc. as these are only efficient when iterating over a range reference (they will bog down considerably and become practically unusable after just a few thousand iterations when looping over an array object). As such, I don’t recommend them as "generalized" solutions, although they can be very effective on a case-by-case basis. Similarly, you will only find 2 examples in this collection that use REDUCE-STACK in a limited capacity, with fewer than 10 iterations, as I also consider this to be a method of last resort due to its problems with efficiency when the number of iterations cannot be controlled. Hopefully one or two of them proves useful. If not, no big deal. Many of the examples in the attached file are interactive, so you can see how the different options affect the output. For those brave enough, please feel free to share your own custom functions too. I’d love to see what you got. Cheers!
Horizontal Scroll Issue
Since upgrading to Office 365 for my PC, I am encountering a display issue when using the horizontal (tilt) scroll function on my mouse. When scrolling horizontally the displayed columns will suddenly reset to before I started scrolling, but the highlighted cell position remains the same, and selecting a cell will select a cell on where is "should" be and not what is currently displayed. While this easily solvable by quickly scrolling up or down to "reset" the view to where it should be, it is annoying to do while trying to work. I am hoping for a solution to this.Access Error on File Import through VBA
We are running a custom VBA routine in Microsoft Access that imports and parses text files into a database. Starting around September 9th, some machines began showing an error dialog during this process. The dialog mentions a failure in the VBA Regular Expression engine. The error does not occur consistently. On the same machine, the import may succeed several times and then fail (roughly 1 out of 4 attempts). The behavior appears to vary depending on the input file. The VBA code itself has been unchanged for years and continues to function correctly on older builds. We are wondering if this is related to a recent update in Access or the VBA runtime. Has anyone else encountered this behavior, and are there known workarounds or fixes? Going to leave version numbers out of this post because it keeps getting deleted and I'm not sure why. This is my 4th or 5th attempt to write this post and it keep getting auto-moderated.Calculate Days in between Dates
Hey, So I have a create date and a end date and I want to calculate the days in between those days, NOT counting the start date and weekends and the formula I am using is giving me the incorrect days: It's giving me -2 when the correct days should be 0. You can't see it, but the L6-L34 are the holidays, which would be 7/4/2023. Any advice on why this is happening would be greatly appreciated.Avery Word Template – Text Boxes Not Linked, But Typing in One Moves Content in Others
Hello, I’m helping a client who has been using a Word document with an Avery name tag template for years. Recently, she noticed some unusual behavior: The document is built with multiple text boxes laid out for name tags. The text boxes are not linked (we checked, no “create link/break link” settings). However, when she types in one text box, the content in other text boxes shifts around or moves. It’s not duplicating the text, but it’s disrupting the alignment/layout of all the tags on the page. This happens even with brand new text boxes created in this document on her computer. If we create a brand new document with text boxes on a different computer, it works normally. But once that file is opened on her computer, the same issue occurs again. So far we’ve tried: Resetting Word settings (renaming Normal.dotm and Word registry keys). Testing with a new blank document. Checking for linked text boxes. Saving as a new file/template. The problem seems isolated to this one computer/Word installation, but it affects both old and new documents once they’re opened here. Other computer with the same template doesn't do this. Has anyone seen this before? Any advice on what else we can try, or how to ensure her Avery templates work normally again, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Cheers! - Colin
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