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Disable conversion of two numbers with dash as date in Excel

March 10, 2023 by Admin 3 Comments

Microsoft Excel has a feature that automatically coverts two numbers separated by dash in to a date formatted value. For example if you type 6-7 in a cell, Excel would reformat this in to a date value as 7-Jun. But if you do not want to reformat then you can use any of the below mentioned solutions to disable this feature.

Solution 1: Prefixing the values with apostrophe

The simplest solution is to add apostrophe before 6-7. This would display the typed value without reformatting it.

Solution 2: Change format to Text Format

Another alternate solution is to change the formatting of the cell to Text format. Select the cell (or columns), right click and pick Format Cells from the menu list.

In the Format Cells window, select Text Format under Number tab and click OK button to apply the changes.

Also See: How to add country code to phone numbers in Excel

How to Verify Email Addresses in Google Sheets: A Step-by-Step Guide

December 10, 2022 by Admin Leave a Comment

In Google Spreadsheet you can check whether the value entered is a proper email address by creating a data validation rule. This rule does a simple verification and checks for the @ symbol in the entered value. Let us say you have a column in your spreadsheet that needs to accept only email addresses, then you can do the following to add the validation.

Select the Column values, click the Data menu and select Validation from the menu list.

In the Data Validation window, select Text, Contains for the Criteria drop down and specify the value as @

And if you want to display a message to the user then type the message in Help text some thing like “Enter proper email address example aaaa@xxx.xxx”. Click on the Save button to save the changes.

Now when you enter a value in the email address column without the @ symbol then it would display the message as shown below.

How to increase number of worksheets Excel

March 18, 2016 by Admin 1 Comment

Microsoft Excel by default contains 3 worksheets while creating a new Workbook. For creating a new workbook you can specify the number of Worksheet that a Workbook needs to contain. This can be modified using Excel Options. Listed below are steps for increasing number of Worksheets for a new Workbook in Excel 2013, Excel 2010 and Excel 2007

In Excel 2013 and Excel 2010 –> Click on File menu and then Options.

In Excel 2007 –> Click on Excel Options and then Popular menu.

Under When creating new workbooks section there is include this many sheets fields. This can be used for increasing the number worksheets while creating a new workbook. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum is 255. Check out the below video demo to increase worksheets size in Excel 2013

Also See: How to move or copy worksheets in Excel 2013

A trick to flip a column upside down in Excel

February 17, 2016 by Admin Leave a Comment

Excel users can sort a column using the Sort feature available as part of Sort & Filter menu. But what if you want to flip a column upside down. Let us see this with an example column having some text values as shown below.

We will not be able to apply sort feature directly on this column to flip the data instead we can add a dummy column and use that for sorting the text values.

Step 1: Insert a new column before the existing column.
Step 2: Now use Auto Fill feature to fill the temp with numbers as shown below

Step 3: Now you can use the Sort feature on column1 and make sure to sort by descending order. Also include the column2 in Sort sleection list.

Step 4: Once the columns are sorted, delete the temp column with numbers.

Prevent users from adding new worksheet in Excel

January 25, 2016 by Admin 3 Comments

Excel 2016, 2013 and 2010 provides an option to prevent users from adding new worksheet to existing Workbook structure. So if you are the owner of Excel file and you do not want to allow other users to add any new worksheet, rename or move worksheet then you can use Protect Workbook Structure option to change the permission. You can access Protect Workbook Structure from the Info menu.

Click the File menu and then navigate to Info menu and click the drop down arrow under Protect Workbook option. From the list of available option select Protect Workbook Structure. This would display the following Protect Structure and Windows. Mark the check box with label as Structure. If you want to password protect it then enter a password in the Password field. Click Ok button to save and confirm the changes.

How to include original message in Outlook

December 8, 2015 by Admin Leave a Comment

Microsoft Outlook users can include the original message while forwarding or replying to an email. The users can choose any one of the following options for original message

Do not include original message
Attach original message
Include original message text
Include and indent original message text
Prefix each line of the original message

Listed below are the steps to access the message handling option in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007

Include original message in Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010
Click File menu, select Options from the list.

In the Outlook Options window, click Mail tab then scroll down Replies and and forwards section.

Use the option “When replying to a message” and “When forward a message” to specify the option for original message.

Include original message in Outlook 2007

Tools -> Options -> Email Options -> On replies and forwards section

Using the drop down available under when replying to a message and When forwarding a message, you can choose any of the following values from drop down.

Also See: Close original message on reply or forward in Microsoft Outlook