If you find a reason this happens, please let me know. At least I know I can get it to do what I want, but it is still a mystery as to why I have to try so hard. It just places a square symbol in the place that enter should have been pressed and the text should have been split into separate lines. Seems to be a popular choice. Started in safe mode and same issue. Maybe I'm not wording it correctly, but I'd appreciate the help.
I then want it to then automatically press enter. Using Ctrl+Enter allowed me to keep the active cell selected and modify the cell again. I use it a lot when I have to fill blank cells. I have printed the pages and the printed version also has pound signs. Has anyone had any problems with this shortcut key combo using Excel 2007 on Windows 7? If it does, one of the add-ins you have installed and activated is overriding the built-in shortcut. I already know how to copy formulas from one cell to another by dragging the skinny black line of the cell.
Try Alt+I+E in place of R. My first question goes to everyone: Does alt+enter work on your machines??? The times would change based on the Time formated values entered into the Start and Stop time cells. All of a sudden this has stopped working. I am also interested in the gif you made to make it more easy to understand. Here is a screencast that shows it in action. Any ideas where I'm going wrong? Black color + format border shows square with all sides of square showing. How do You use the Ctrl+Enter shortcut? I know you made the gif from Camtasia.
If I use the delete key to delete the contents of a cell, then it gets deleted. Redirecting Of Banned Users provided by - Copyright © 2019 DragonByte Technologies Ltd. I already know where to use this feature!! I mentioned this tip 2 in my , but thought I should explain it in more detail. To rule this out, start by exiting other programs you may have open, particularly other Office programs, such as Word. The Go To Special menu helps us select all the cells of the same type.
How can I set up a list like this? Instead, the cell that we just edited will remain selected. That's working to get the text from A1 when B1 is blank. If it is, then it might not understand what you are pressing when you press Alt+Enter. No idea how this fixed it, but I hope it works for you as well. Any updates and results please let me know.
I reset my keyboard tab shortuts already to default but it doesn't help. If that doesn't work, it is best to just restart your system. It is not a page break. Thank you, I love learning something new every week from your Blog! I have a userform containing a multicolumn listbox ListBox1 and textbox txtSelectedJobNumber. Please leave a comment below with any suggestions, tips, or questions. Regards, Emi Zhang TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful.
Check to see if the issue is with both Alt keys on the keyboard or with only one. But I wonder how to make the red progress bar below the gif. Then when I try to click into another cell it just highlights that cell, along with any other that I move my cursor over. For example if I currently have the A2 cell color as a gray color, and I enter information into A2 can I have it set to automatically change to no fill or any other color without having to click out of the cell, back into it, and then clicking the button?? I'm not sure what is going on, but I have gotten the command to work intermittently. This is the default behavior in Excel, and it allows us to quickly work our way down a list when entering data into cells. Only by double clicking on cell B3 will the program actually calculate.
Is there a way to copy each one - whether as a table or as text - into a single Excel cell without losing data? Could you share with me the method to acquire this red bar? Try the other Alt key or plug in another keyboard as a test - perhaps its a problem with the keyboard. Regards, Emi Zhang TechNet Community Support Please mark the reply as an answer if you find it is helpful. Images larger than 600px wide or 1000px tall will be reduced. If anyone could provide code which would allow me to do this I would be grateful Thanks Colin I have a textbox in my userform where anything typed in the box is entered into cell A2 in my worksheet. I've written a spreadsheet and am wondering if there is a way to permit data entry in a cell, contingent upon another cell being populated.
Thanks in advance, Mike Is there a way I can use conditional formatting or something to change the color of the cell once I enter a value or text into that cell? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. The first column of the table is a list of numbers. I am puzzled by a thin black line that looks like a border line on a spreadsheet that I am unable to remove, whatever I do. Anyone using Excel regularly, esp. If it does, how the keys are interpreted by the keyboard and by Excel may differ. In I was entering the percentage completion number in the cell. Go to Developer Tab select Macros and check the list in pop-up dialog box.
Hence, make Excel folder blank. I use ctrl + alt + f5 quite a bit to update pivot tables - it suddenly stopped working. Hello and welcome to The Board. We can use the Go To Special menu to first select all the blank cells in column A. She made sure that the cells she is editing have wrapping turned on, but still no luck.