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Hello:
I know how to use the CONCATENATE formula to combine two cells into one. When I did so in a spreadsheet yesterday, a lot of space ended up between the two sets of data in the combined cell. I ended up having to go through and delete the blank space individually in a lot of the combined cells down the column. Perhaps, each of the two cells that I combined had a lot of space in each cell after each piece of data. I don't know. Is there any way to avoid having this additional space, in the future? Also, I have a separate and unrelated question. I'd like to know what keyboard shortcut that I can use in order to copy data from one cell in a column to all of the rest of the cells in that column. Here's what I'm getting at. If I have a column that is over 3,000 rows long, I don't want to have to sit in front of my laptop and hit the Shift-Page Down keys as that takes too long to copy down. I once saw a guy literally do a similar copy, in just two seconds. But, I do not know what he was doing with his keyboard. Any help on that question would be greatly appreciated, also. Thanks! childofthe1980s |
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Question 1: =TRIM(A1)
Question 2: Select first row Keep Ctrl and Shift pressed Press down arrow HTH -- AP "childofthe1980s" a écrit dans le message de ... Hello: I know how to use the CONCATENATE formula to combine two cells into one. When I did so in a spreadsheet yesterday, a lot of space ended up between the two sets of data in the combined cell. I ended up having to go through and delete the blank space individually in a lot of the combined cells down the column. Perhaps, each of the two cells that I combined had a lot of space in each cell after each piece of data. I don't know. Is there any way to avoid having this additional space, in the future? Also, I have a separate and unrelated question. I'd like to know what keyboard shortcut that I can use in order to copy data from one cell in a column to all of the rest of the cells in that column. Here's what I'm getting at. If I have a column that is over 3,000 rows long, I don't want to have to sit in front of my laptop and hit the Shift-Page Down keys as that takes too long to copy down. I once saw a guy literally do a similar copy, in just two seconds. But, I do not know what he was doing with his keyboard. Any help on that question would be greatly appreciated, also. Thanks! childofthe1980s |
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Hi,
Use TRIM function to remove leading/trailing blanks e.g =Concatentate(Trim(A1),"-",TRIM(B1)) will combine A & B with - between e.g. ABC-DEF Re copying one cell to ALL others below it: Select source cell and then COPY Select next cell down (Source+1), SHIFT+CTRL + Down Arrow to take you to bottom of your column, then PASTE. HTH "childofthe1980s" wrote: Hello: I know how to use the CONCATENATE formula to combine two cells into one. When I did so in a spreadsheet yesterday, a lot of space ended up between the two sets of data in the combined cell. I ended up having to go through and delete the blank space individually in a lot of the combined cells down the column. Perhaps, each of the two cells that I combined had a lot of space in each cell after each piece of data. I don't know. Is there any way to avoid having this additional space, in the future? Also, I have a separate and unrelated question. I'd like to know what keyboard shortcut that I can use in order to copy data from one cell in a column to all of the rest of the cells in that column. Here's what I'm getting at. If I have a column that is over 3,000 rows long, I don't want to have to sit in front of my laptop and hit the Shift-Page Down keys as that takes too long to copy down. I once saw a guy literally do a similar copy, in just two seconds. But, I do not know what he was doing with his keyboard. Any help on that question would be greatly appreciated, also. Thanks! childofthe1980s |
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See Ardus reply for copy - easier than mine!
"childofthe1980s" wrote: Hello: I know how to use the CONCATENATE formula to combine two cells into one. When I did so in a spreadsheet yesterday, a lot of space ended up between the two sets of data in the combined cell. I ended up having to go through and delete the blank space individually in a lot of the combined cells down the column. Perhaps, each of the two cells that I combined had a lot of space in each cell after each piece of data. I don't know. Is there any way to avoid having this additional space, in the future? Also, I have a separate and unrelated question. I'd like to know what keyboard shortcut that I can use in order to copy data from one cell in a column to all of the rest of the cells in that column. Here's what I'm getting at. If I have a column that is over 3,000 rows long, I don't want to have to sit in front of my laptop and hit the Shift-Page Down keys as that takes too long to copy down. I once saw a guy literally do a similar copy, in just two seconds. But, I do not know what he was doing with his keyboard. Any help on that question would be greatly appreciated, also. Thanks! childofthe1980s |
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My first posting, so if I'm doing this incorrectly, let me know.
Regarding question 2: When I want to do a quick "fill-down", I copy the cell (ctrl+C), then select the first receiving cell & paste (ctrl+V). With that cell active, I double click on the fill box and voilla! it will fill down to the end of the last active row in that column. Let me know what you think. seagee69 |
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