Glad you got it working.
Catt wrote:
Dave, I clicked the box until blank then chose all cells and was able to sort
by the three fields that I wanted to use.
Thanks for all your help, its all good now.
Catt
"Dave Peterson" wrote:
That "merge cells" checkbox can represent 3 different states.
1. No cells in the selection are merged.
2. All cells in the selection are merged.
3. Some of the cells in the selection are merged and some in the selection
are not merged.
If you want to unmerge all the cells in the selection, you can just click on
that checkbox until it's empty.
If you want to merge all the cells in the selection, you can just click on that
checkbox until it's checked.
(Just keep clicking until the checkbox is the way you want--in this case, it
should be empty.)
(You mix them by selecting smaller ranges and doing them individually.)
Catt wrote:
and just one more thing. There is no "unmerge" that I can find anywhere, but
again, this is excel 97. I realize that its a little behind the communities'
usage curve but thats the way it goes, its what I have.
Catt
"RagDyer" wrote:
You really don't have to find anything!
Just follow Dave's instructions and select the *entire* sheet,
<<<"(or ctrl-a (twice in xl2003) to select all the cells)"
and then *unmerge*.
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"Catt" wrote in message
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Ahhhh...is see now. The check mark was gray so that means there are some
cells that are merged and some that are not. I guess the question now is
how
do I find which cells are merged and "unmerge" them?
Thanks
"Dave Peterson" wrote:
You have at least one merged cells (multiple cells made to look like
just one
cell).
If you don't think you're using merged cells, maybe you can get rid of
them.
Save your workbook (just in case you don't like the results).
Select the range to fix (or ctrl-a (twice in xl2003) to select all the
cells)
Format|cells|Alignment tab|uncheck merge cells
(If that checkbox had a checkmark, then the selection was merged. If
the
checkmark was grey, then you had a mixture of merged cells and "regular"
unmerged cells.)
Catt wrote:
I've got a new problem. When I try to sort my list which has company,
city
and state Excel won't sort it I keep getting the message that "this
operation
requires that merged cells must be identically sized". What merged
cells? I
did nothing that I know of to prompt this message. No matter what I
try it
won't do it. This is Excel 97. Can someone tell me why this is
happening?
Thanks,
Catt
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