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Default Sharing a neat trick

Also don't forget the frustration you experience thinking, "Man I've
done this before! How the heck did I do it??"


On Jul 6, 9:43 am, "Bob Phillips" wrote:
Yeah, but think of the good feeling you will get as you 'discover' it
(again) <bg

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HTH

Bob

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"MartinW" wrote in message

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Yeah, I know what you mean by remembering Bob, by the
time I need to use this again it will probably dawn on me as
a new revelation all over again.


Regards
Martin


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Hi Martin,


I think I have seen something like this before, don't remember if the
same or similar.


The problem with tricks like this is remembering them. Personally, by the
time I had looked for and found the note or whatever showing me how to do
it, I could have written the code 20 times <G.


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Bob


(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my
addy)


"MartinW" wrote in message
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I just stumbled over a neat trick that I thought I should share.
To expand data in a column so that there is a blank cell
between each row.


Put some data into A1 to A10
Put 1 into B1
Highlight B1 and B2
Grab the fill handle and drag down to B19
That should leave 1 blank 2 blank...etc in col B
Put =INDIRECT("A"&B1) in C1
Grab the fill handle and drag down to C19
That should leave your column A data in column C
separated by the #REF error.


Whilst column C is still selected
Tap F5SpecialFormulas
Uncheck Numbers, Text and Logicals and leave
Errors checked.
OK out
Then tap delete


Do a CopyPaste Values on column C
and delete columns A and B


Not groundbreaking stuff but I'm sure it will come in very
handy in the right situation.


Regards
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