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Old 04-18-2007, 07:48 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Help with Excel

It's not really all that important, but a working solution would score me some major points with the boss.

She has this huge balance sheet. The usual stuff, names of vendors, acquisition numbers, invoice numbers, amount paid and running total deducted from the starting budget off to the far right. Nothing too complicated.

What she would like is a way to color code the whole row by (I assume) vendor name (e.g. orders from Alibris would be colored light green, etc. etc.). She would also like every subsequent entry of Alibris in the future to automatically highlight light green. In addition (I know, she doesn't ask much does she?) she'd also like to be able to tally up by vendor (e.g. totalling all purchases made solely from Alibris over the past year).

Now, I'm moderately well versed in Excel and I can sort of do this using conditional formatting. I can highlight all Alibris entries including the matching entries as they are being entered into the spreadsheet. However, it doesn't highlight the entire row and it's a bit cumbersome. In addition, I have no idea how to do the last bit....at all.

I've been beating my head against the computer on this for a couple of hours now and I guess, I'm starting to crack.

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Old 04-18-2007, 07:57 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Um, not too offer too simple of a solution, but can't you just highlight the entire row by clicking on the top tab and color code every entry in that row?

Then wouldn't the tally for that vendor just be a =Sum(x,X) function at the end of the row?

Maybe I am missing something in the complexity here?
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Old 04-18-2007, 08:01 AM   #3 (permalink)
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ctrl h (find replace) and expand the options,then click format... on the to be replaced by cell, then the pattern tab, select the color you want to replace it with

if thats not clear enough let me know, but it's very easy to do.

opps miss read your OP, you want cells below to be colored as well... that would take a macro.

A quick and dirty would be to organize vendors by sheet, and have sheet one be an aggregate of all vendors
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Old 04-18-2007, 08:14 AM   #4 (permalink)
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cant she sort the spread sheet by vendor (ie whatever column the vendor is in) the subtotal by each vendor change?
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Old 04-18-2007, 09:45 AM   #5 (permalink)
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ctrl h (find replace) and expand the options,then click format... on the to be replaced by cell, then the pattern tab, select the color you want to replace it with

if thats not clear enough let me know, but it's very easy to do.

opps miss read your OP, you want cells below to be colored as well... that would take a macro.

A quick and dirty would be to organize vendors by sheet, and have sheet one be an aggregate of all vendors
Macro, eh? /shudders

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cant she sort the spread sheet by vendor (ie whatever column the vendor is in) the subtotal by each vendor change?
Of course she could. I should clarify. It's not a matter of finding the information. There are a myriad of ways for her to find the information, this is more about how she wants it formatted. It seems to be a matter of aesthetics rather than actual function.

I know...it's really, really stupid.

Thanks anyway
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Old 04-18-2007, 01:36 PM   #6 (permalink)
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No NO NO NO NO!!!

Use of conditional formatting allows you to do this for a whole row dynamically.

Select the rows in a cell and chose Format --> Conditional Formatting.

Lets say you want to colour all vendors from area "North" to be red.

hit the lefthand drop down from "cell" to "formula". In the right hand formula box type =a2="North", and select the background colour red in the box at the botom f the screen.

There are some issues taht you need to look out for when you copy the formats to other rows, but play with the help files, and ask any additional questions here (or PM me).

Good Luck.
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:02 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Hi Guys

I didn't want to start a whole new thread, partly because the problem seems so simple.

I have a whole bunch of .csv files. I want to be able to (without copying and pasting) get all the data from the various .csv's into one file - .xls or .csv. I don't care whether they're all in one sheet or in seperate worksheets either, although the option would be nice.

Any ideas?
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Old 04-19-2007, 12:24 PM   #8 (permalink)
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No NO NO NO NO!!!

Use of conditional formatting allows you to do this for a whole row dynamically.

Select the rows in a cell and chose Format --> Conditional Formatting.

Lets say you want to colour all vendors from area "North" to be red.

hit the lefthand drop down from "cell" to "formula". In the right hand formula box type =a2="North", and select the background colour red in the box at the botom f the screen.

There are some issues taht you need to look out for when you copy the formats to other rows, but play with the help files, and ask any additional questions here (or PM me).

Good Luck.
Excellent. I'll have to try that at work tomorrow.

I've got (but haven't installed...) a copy of office 2007. I've read I can write conditional format stuff has really come a long way. I'm going to give it a look over the weekend and see what I can do.

Thanks again
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Old 10-12-2007, 09:55 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Excel question! (Such a big boy using the search feature!)

I want this.

If D1 through D100 = XX123 then I want XX123 to be bold and red.


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Old 10-12-2007, 10:48 AM   #10 (permalink)
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do you mean is the Sum of d1:d100 = XX123 then XX123 becomes bold red?

If this is the case, select XX123, format -> conditional format.

if cell value = sum(d1:d100) font bold colour red.

Job done.

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Old 10-12-2007, 10:51 AM   #11 (permalink)
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do you mean is the Sum of d1:d100 = XX123 then XX123 becomes bold red?

If this is the case, select XX123, format -> conditional format.

if cell value = sum(d1:d100) font bold colour red.

Job done.

Pay me later.

Nope, not the sum. There are a bunch of different account numbers in "D", If a certain account number is entered, I would like for it to be bolded and red.

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Old 10-13-2007, 01:52 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Ah... This's easy if you use dos.

You simply copy the data into a single file then open it. I think the syntax is
copy A.csv B.csv C.csv MyNew.csv

I might have it wrong.... I live half my life on UNIX.
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Old 10-13-2007, 01:43 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Nope, not the sum. There are a bunch of different account numbers in "D", If a certain account number is entered, I would like for it to be bolded and red.

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Right - in this case you go to cell D2 (assuming tis is the first a/c no) and do cond.format. with the option being "cell value equals" XX123 (or whatever) and then make it red.

For a really special trick, create a cell at the top od the sheet (let's assume you use B1).

In the conditional formatting, say "cell value equals" and then "=$b$1". That way, cells will go bold and red if they match whatever you put into B1.
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Old 10-15-2007, 04:48 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Thanks for your help, I will try it later and let you know.

Well, It worked! Thanks Daniel_!

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