Excel questions

Subject: Excel questions
From: "John Hollinrake" <john_h -at- telusplanet -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 03:56:36 -0700

Hi,

I have been lurking on the list for a month or two. I'm in the process of
expanding my existing research and technical consulting company to include
technical writing and training services.

I have noticed a few questions about trying to do things in Excel that are
easy to do in Word. Usually, the easiest way to do that is to either:

1) Do what you have to do in a Word table, then link that table to your
Excel document; or

2) Do what you have to do in a Word table then copy and paste into Excel.

For example, on Tuesday Jean Cooper asked:

"How can I change a column of text data from lowercase to all-caps? (Other
than re-typing it, of course.) I know in Word you just highlight the
selection and then hit Shift-F3. But I can't find any way of doing it in
Excel."

The Excel "UPPER" function works perfectly in this case.

An alternative method is to:

1) copy the column of lower case text,
2) open and paste that column into Word,
3) change the format, then
4) paste that text back over her original.

I found that in that case the text returned to lower case unless I used the
"Paste Special" rather than plain paste, and chose "Paste as Text".

I mention this because I have often wanted to do more complicated formatting
changes in excel, for which the built in formatting functions would become
unwieldy. I have found that pretty much any format that can be achieved in a
Word table can be displayed in Excel. Sometimes it takes a few attempts
using the different paste or "paste special" options.

Hope this helps some people,

John Hollinrake
Edmonton, Alberta


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