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Excel formulas starting to include current sheet name
Hi I recently noticed that formulas in excel starting to automatically include the "current" sheet name after leaving and coming back to the sheet (example below). I don't remember this used to be the case but I could be wrong. Does anyone have a similar experience or can confirm if this is correct? Is there a setting somewhere I can turn this on and off? Example: I have 2 tables (1 per sheet). After clicking on Sheet2 to select the cell I want to sum, coming back to Sheet1 and referencing any cells will include "Sheet1!" in my formula. I believe previously the formula omits "Sheet1!". Both ways are useful in different scenarios but wondering if I have missed a trick to "turn on and off" how it behaves. Thanks!
Analysis ToolPak
With respect to the Analysis ToolPak for use to perform the t-Test, if the option for "t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Unequal Variances" is selected, is the Satterthwaite Approximation used and not the pooled standard error? Refer to the following URL: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-the-analysis-toolpak-to-perform-complex-data-analysis-6c67ccf0-f4a9-487c-8dec-bdb5a2cefab6 Please advise or provide feedback.
Text to Column
Hello Everyone. I'm trying to split data into 2 columns. The original data is made up of cities and states: Notice that some items have a comma and others don't. Also, the cities states are different lengths. So, I cannot use a space or a comma as a delimiter. I'm trying to figure out how to separate them. I came up with this formula to add a colon so I can use the delimiter to separate them. The problem then becomes the fact that I have to count the number of spaces in each city to add the colon. Then, I have to copy and paste special as values. Also, notice that in New Orleans (for example), it keeps the comma: One more issue, if I get a new report with added cities and states, then I have to re-do the calculations. HELP!!!! Balta
In Cabin font family, horizontal lines move downwards when exporting to PDF
I am trying to create my CV in Microsoft Word, but I'm running into an issue: the horizontal lines under my section headings (created by typing three hyphens and then hitting Enter) are being lowered too much when exporting to PDF. To see what I mean, see the below images. The first is an image of the section heading and the text below it as it appears in Word: There is a decent level of space between the heading, the line, and the text below. However, when I export the document to a PDF, the horizontal line moves downwards to the point where it is almost touching the text below: This seems to be a problem with the Cabin font family that I'm using; I tried the same with Calibri (a native Word font) and Source Serif 4 (from Google Fonts) and the horizontal line stayed where it should.SPILL error
Hi. I'm just using a very simple formula to calculate how much money is still due from an original total amount. The formula I have typed is simply in this format: 6000 -(B2-B8), but in the next again cell where I am looking to display the result, I am getting a SPILL error. The correct total is displayed in the cell, but a number of cells immediately below are displaying the "6000" figure!! I'm struggling to correct this - can you help :-) Thank you 👍
Can a font become 'corrupted,' and how to replace?
This refers to MS Word from Office 2019, running under Windows 10 Pro. I have a somewhat large (10MB) Word .docx I've been adding to as time permits. It has text, illustrations, pictures and captions for the pictures in text boxes. suddenly, when I open the file, some of the captions are garbled. The font I used is Arial 10pt, bold and regular. The bold is just fine, the regular is garbled. However, if I highlight the garbled text and change it to bold, italic or any other font, it appears just fine. Here is an example of what I'm talking about. First the .docx as it appears on my screen: Then if I highlight that garbled text and change it to Bold, or any other font, it looks good: If I change point size the problem persists. It's just Arial Regular that garbles, and only in this document, and . Other .docx files using that same font display fine. Also, I can take this file and open it on my other computer, which is running Office 2010 under Windows 10 Pro, and it opens properly. I do have Word programmed to embed non-system fonts in the document, so I'm assuming that Word is fetching Arial Regular to display when opening the file on this computer, and that my other computer maybe has a good Arial Regular installation, which is why it looks good there. Something else I just noticed, referring to the two screenshots that follow. Other 10pt. Arial Regular that was NOT in a text box seemed okay in this document. But on close examination, the kerning seemed a bit off. So I changed that non-text box text to another Helvetica-style font and it did look better, but then when I set it back to Arial, it was garbled too. So do I have a bad Arial Regular on this computer? If so, why don't other documents show this problem. And, most important, how do I fix it? Thanks in advance, and... HELP!Errors in Event Viewer
Since updating to the latest beta version 15209.20000, the following errors appear in Event Viewer: Failed to parse element: VersionOverrides Id=d949f36b-4eb7-4269-8eae-db0a399b7ca2, DisplayName=Transcribe, Provider=Microsoft Office Services, StoreType=SdxRdx, StoreId=(null) P1: Apps for Office P2: 16.0.15209.20000 P3: 0x8004323E P4: New Document
Error Opening the Excel
I can't open the file Get Message. Saved in Last time. Previous Version history Not available. Copy from Cloud to pen drive no difference. Try in 365 online mode not open. Try with google sheet not Open. Change the file extension to .xls & .csv not open. Online Platforms not open. Change the Computer and Operating System. Try to open WPS; But no change.Word document crashes
Every time I leave my word document open in my iPads and search for something and then get back to the document, it crashes, that is, it suddenly disappears. I did all the available suggestions to solve the problem including “clear all the documents,” “delete sing-in credentials,” and “reset cloud settings” in Setting of my iPads (11 and 12). I even deleted the app and downloaded it again. None of them worked. Of course, I don’t have the same problem with my old iPad, 10. That’s killing me.The Retirement of SharePoint Alerts is a Pain in the Rear
I’ve used a SharePoint alert to create an emailed daily digest of changes made to files in a document library for seven years. Microsoft plans to retire SharePoint Alerts in July 2026, and the race is on to find a replacement. Regretfully, neither Power Automate nor SharePoint Rules seem capable of generating an equivalent daily digest, perhaps because these solutions don’t handle the number of file versions created by AutoSave well. https://office365itpros.com/2026/03/27/sharepoint-alerts-replacement/Complex formulae with data model
Over the years, I have developed a significant excel data sheet which has gotten slower and slower with time. I have discovered the idea of excel's data model this week and have learnt how to import the data I need from its source CSV to the data model and I now have a power pivot which looks like what I originally had in excel. What I would like to do next, is to replicate some of the formulae I had in excel to calculate if something should be counted or not. I would not want the red one to be counted as this row would have been counted in the previous month. In excel I was using the following formula- =IF(COUNTIF(B5:M4,">0"),SUM(Patient!B5:M5*0),Patient!N5) is there a way of achieving this with the data model or would I have to hardcode this into another sheet? I was trying to avoid doing this to minimise the number of formulae... Many thanks for your help...
Office 365 issues
We have an end user that started with us approximately a year ago. Shortly after he started he began noticing that his status would go away on a fairly regular basis on MS Teams. We tried uninstall/reinstall, resetting, repairing and the problem persisted. Since he was a relatively new hire we were thinking it was something with his laptop so we replaced and the issue returned. Turned in a ticket with our Office 365 vendor who in turn opened a ticket with Microsoft. After some initial testing they sent a Teams install file that seemed to fix the issue. Since that time he has regularly had issues with Teams disconnecting, Outlook just stop receiving emails, while showing connected. Typically the only fix was a restart and on some occasions that did not work. Sometimes a reset or repair might fix this issue. Throughout this we did clear credential manager, caches, etc...This got a point yesterday where I created a new user profile for him, basically like a new laptop and it temporarily fixed the Teams and Outlook issue, however when attempting to sign into MS Edge it would just spin and had to use task manager to close the app. Tried a repair on the app as you cannot uninstall and same result it would hang up and have to forcibly closed. Just wondering if someone else has encountered something like this and possible fixes. Thanks
VBA: Why does an enter appear at the end of my document?
Hello I have a VBA-code which - when used - always places an enter at the end of my document and I can't find out why. Can someone help me with this? This is the code: Sub TekstNaarInvulruimteBlauw() ' ' TekstNaarInvulruimteBlauw Macro ' ' Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic With Selection.Find .Text = "^p" .Replacement.Text = "^p" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "^l" .Replacement.Text = "^l" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "- " .Replacement.Text = "- " .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "(?...?)" .Replacement.Text = "###" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll With Selection.Find .Text = "(?...?X)" .Replacement.Text = "###" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Font.Color = wdColorBlue Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.Font.Color = wdColorBlue With Selection.Find .Text = "" .Replacement.Text = "?...?" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.Font.Color = wdColorBlue With Selection.Find .Text = "###" .Replacement.Text = "(?...?)" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = True .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchWildcards = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchAllWordForms = False End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory End Sub Many thanks in advance. Jessica
NgcSet stays NO despite working WHFB setup - RPC 0x800706ba error
Hi everyone, I need help with a Windows Hello for Business certificate trust deployment that's almost working but stuck on the final step. **What's Working:** - Manual certificate enrollment works perfectly: `certreq -enroll -user -config "MyCA.domain.local\MyCA-CA" "MyWHFBTemplate"` - TPM 2.0 is ready, enabled, and functional - All Group Policies applied correctly (computer and user) - CA server healthy, templates published **What's NOT Working:** - `dsregcmd /status` shows `NgcSet : NO` (should be YES) - `NgcSvc` (Microsoft Passport) service is stopped on client - Getting error: "RPC server is unavailable (0x800706ba)" during automatic certificate enrollment - PIN setup fails because NGC containers won't create **The Strange Part:** Manual certificate enrollment works perfectly, but automatic enrollment fails with RPC errors. Both should use the same communication path to the CA. **Environment:** - On-premises certificate trust deployment (no Azure AD) - Domain-joined Windows 11 clients - Windows Server 2019/2022 infrastructure **Questions:** 1. Should NgcSvc start automatically when WHFB policies are applied? 2. Why would manual cert enrollment work but automatic fail with RPC errors? 3. Is there a difference in how system context vs user context accesses the CA? Has anyone seen this specific combination before? Any ideas what could cause this behavior? Thanks for any help!Filling a column with succeeding lists
Hi, I need a list of files, with numbers starting from 001 for each box. Adding the number for one box is easy but I have thousands of them. A box number is like "0001AA0001". The first number and the letters never change, so I have : 0001AA0001 0001AA0002 0001AA0003 Then I have to add the files numbers, like "0001AA0001/001". I already have a line for each file, but only with the box number in the forst column, repeated several times, each time for every file. What I have What I need 0001AA0001 0001AA0001/001 0001AA0001 0001AA0001/002 0001AA0001 0001AA0001/003 0001AA0002 0001AA0002/001 0001AA0002 0001AA0002/002 0001AA0003 0001AA0003/001 0001AA0004 0001AA0004/001 0001AA0004 0001AA0004/002 0001AA0004 0001AA0004/003 Can you please tell me how can I add automatically the /001 and so on without having to do it for each box ? I can't manage to use a model for CTRL+E and I'm not accustomed to use the functions. Thanks, M.T.
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