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colomns got swoeched
Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out
movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b
and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b
and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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To emphasize what Gord Dibben said: normal way to refer to cells on a sheet
is to use the column letter first, then row number as B12 and B13. Not just being picky, but it helps assure people of what you are talking about. Now, back to your problem. First make a backup copy of the file, simply open it and use File | Save As and give it a new name. That's in case the changes I'm about to detail mess it up. And they could if the table contains formulas and things. Click on the 14 at the left edge of the sheet, choose Insert | Row. That will give you an empty row right below row 13. Click the 12 at the left edge of the sheet, highlighting the entire row. Move your cursor to the right into A12 and down a little until the cursor becomes a 4-direction arrow symbol. Left-Click and hold and drag that down into the new row you just inserted. Release the mouse button. Go back and click on the 12 at the left edge of the now empty row 12. Then from the menu choose Edit | Delete to remove the empty row. If your table didn't suddenly fill up with error indications like #REF, you're probably good to go. "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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!! Don't forget that when you "save as..."
The current workbook changes to that one. So next time you *save* it overwrites the one you just *Saved as..* For me, best after *Save as..* is to now re-open the original, if all goes fine - keep going If not, revert to the *Saved as..* file Steve On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:37:01 +0100, JLatham wrote: To emphasize what Gord Dibben said: normal way to refer to cells on a sheet is to use the column letter first, then row number as B12 and B13. Not just being picky, but it helps assure people of what you are talking about. Now, back to your problem. First make a backup copy of the file, simply open it and use File | Save As and give it a new name. That's in case the changes I'm about to detail mess it up. And they could if the table contains formulas and things. Click on the 14 at the left edge of the sheet, choose Insert | Row. That will give you an empty row right below row 13. Click the 12 at the left edge of the sheet, highlighting the entire row. Move your cursor to the right into A12 and down a little until the cursor becomes a 4-direction arrow symbol. Left-Click and hold and drag that down into the new row you just inserted. Release the mouse button. Go back and click on the 12 at the left edge of the now empty row 12. Then from the menu choose Edit | Delete to remove the empty row. If your table didn't suddenly fill up with error indications like #REF, you're probably good to go. "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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It is possible you sorted the data and this is why it happened "throughout this
table". If you haven't saved the workbook yet you may be able to hit the undo button to get your data back in order. Do you have a backup file anywhere that would be useful? Gord On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:47:32 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message .. . Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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Good plan also. I think the end desire either way is to have an untouched
copy, and experiment with one, keeping untouched copy in reserve in case of disaster. I was also thinking of what Gord Dibbon mentions in follow-up posting - somehow the table got sorted - in which case, things will probably be OK either way unless something else was depending on data in the table and the move/delete messes that up. "SteveW" wrote: !! Don't forget that when you "save as..." The current workbook changes to that one. So next time you *save* it overwrites the one you just *Saved as..* For me, best after *Save as..* is to now re-open the original, if all goes fine - keep going If not, revert to the *Saved as..* file Steve On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:37:01 +0100, JLatham wrote: To emphasize what Gord Dibben said: normal way to refer to cells on a sheet is to use the column letter first, then row number as B12 and B13. Not just being picky, but it helps assure people of what you are talking about. Now, back to your problem. First make a backup copy of the file, simply open it and use File | Save As and give it a new name. That's in case the changes I'm about to detail mess it up. And they could if the table contains formulas and things. Click on the 14 at the left edge of the sheet, choose Insert | Row. That will give you an empty row right below row 13. Click the 12 at the left edge of the sheet, highlighting the entire row. Move your cursor to the right into A12 and down a little until the cursor becomes a 4-direction arrow symbol. Left-Click and hold and drag that down into the new row you just inserted. Release the mouse button. Go back and click on the 12 at the left edge of the now empty row 12. Then from the menu choose Edit | Delete to remove the empty row. If your table didn't suddenly fill up with error indications like #REF, you're probably good to go. "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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I'll leave gord to keep up with the solution to your problem
Regarding the *Save As..* I never ever use it, well not since I screwed up once. Current file "Fred", Save as... *Fred problem* You keep working, solve the problem - Save and Exit Later you get rid of *Fred problem* as you think it was the one you had problems with. You open *Fred* and hey presto the original problem file is back ! I use Explorer to make a copy of the original file and then carry on working with the original file name. Steve On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:20:01 +0100, JLatham wrote: Good plan also. I think the end desire either way is to have an untouched copy, and experiment with one, keeping untouched copy in reserve in case of disaster. I was also thinking of what Gord Dibbon mentions in follow-up posting - somehow the table got sorted - in which case, things will probably be OK either way unless something else was depending on data in the table and the move/delete messes that up. "SteveW" wrote: !! Don't forget that when you "save as..." The current workbook changes to that one. So next time you *save* it overwrites the one you just *Saved as..* For me, best after *Save as..* is to now re-open the original, if all goes fine - keep going If not, revert to the *Saved as..* file Steve On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:37:01 +0100, JLatham wrote: To emphasize what Gord Dibben said: normal way to refer to cells on a sheet is to use the column letter first, then row number as B12 and B13. Not just being picky, but it helps assure people of what you are talking about. Now, back to your problem. First make a backup copy of the file, simply open it and use File | Save As and give it a new name. That's in case the changes I'm about to detail mess it up. And they could if the table contains formulas and things. Click on the 14 at the left edge of the sheet, choose Insert | Row. That will give you an empty row right below row 13. Click the 12 at the left edge of the sheet, highlighting the entire row. Move your cursor to the right into A12 and down a little until the cursor becomes a 4-direction arrow symbol. Left-Click and hold and drag that down into the new row you just inserted. Release the mouse button. Go back and click on the 12 at the left edge of the now empty row 12. Then from the menu choose Edit | Delete to remove the empty row. If your table didn't suddenly fill up with error indications like #REF, you're probably good to go. "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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I concur - too many cooks. Gord seems to have it in hand, and that puts it
in Good Hands. Probably better than Allstate even! "SteveW" wrote: I'll leave gord to keep up with the solution to your problem Regarding the *Save As..* I never ever use it, well not since I screwed up once. Current file "Fred", Save as... *Fred problem* You keep working, solve the problem - Save and Exit Later you get rid of *Fred problem* as you think it was the one you had problems with. You open *Fred* and hey presto the original problem file is back ! I use Explorer to make a copy of the original file and then carry on working with the original file name. Steve On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:20:01 +0100, JLatham wrote: Good plan also. I think the end desire either way is to have an untouched copy, and experiment with one, keeping untouched copy in reserve in case of disaster. I was also thinking of what Gord Dibbon mentions in follow-up posting - somehow the table got sorted - in which case, things will probably be OK either way unless something else was depending on data in the table and the move/delete messes that up. "SteveW" wrote: !! Don't forget that when you "save as..." The current workbook changes to that one. So next time you *save* it overwrites the one you just *Saved as..* For me, best after *Save as..* is to now re-open the original, if all goes fine - keep going If not, revert to the *Saved as..* file Steve On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:37:01 +0100, JLatham wrote: To emphasize what Gord Dibben said: normal way to refer to cells on a sheet is to use the column letter first, then row number as B12 and B13. Not just being picky, but it helps assure people of what you are talking about. Now, back to your problem. First make a backup copy of the file, simply open it and use File | Save As and give it a new name. That's in case the changes I'm about to detail mess it up. And they could if the table contains formulas and things. Click on the 14 at the left edge of the sheet, choose Insert | Row. That will give you an empty row right below row 13. Click the 12 at the left edge of the sheet, highlighting the entire row. Move your cursor to the right into A12 and down a little until the cursor becomes a 4-direction arrow symbol. Left-Click and hold and drag that down into the new row you just inserted. Release the mouse button. Go back and click on the 12 at the left edge of the now empty row 12. Then from the menu choose Edit | Delete to remove the empty row. If your table didn't suddenly fill up with error indications like #REF, you're probably good to go. "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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actually I just slded it by going to deleate menu and choosing shift cells
up and it fixed it. I found someother shortcuts and if anybody wants them I'll compile what I find by going to a new post later. thanks for all your help guys. "JLatham" wrote in message ... To emphasize what Gord Dibben said: normal way to refer to cells on a sheet is to use the column letter first, then row number as B12 and B13. Not just being picky, but it helps assure people of what you are talking about. Now, back to your problem. First make a backup copy of the file, simply open it and use File | Save As and give it a new name. That's in case the changes I'm about to detail mess it up. And they could if the table contains formulas and things. Click on the 14 at the left edge of the sheet, choose Insert | Row. That will give you an empty row right below row 13. Click the 12 at the left edge of the sheet, highlighting the entire row. Move your cursor to the right into A12 and down a little until the cursor becomes a 4-direction arrow symbol. Left-Click and hold and drag that down into the new row you just inserted. Release the mouse button. Go back and click on the 12 at the left edge of the now empty row 12. Then from the menu choose Edit | Delete to remove the empty row. If your table didn't suddenly fill up with error indications like #REF, you're probably good to go. "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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I got the problem solved but I will make a back up copy sometime in case
this happens again. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... It is possible you sorted the data and this is why it happened "throughout this table". If you haven't saved the workbook yet you may be able to hit the undo button to get your data back in order. Do you have a backup file anywhere that would be useful? Gord On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:47:32 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message . .. Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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To err is human, to have a recent backup is often truly divine!
"marrie" wrote: I got the problem solved but I will make a back up copy sometime in case this happens again. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... It is possible you sorted the data and this is why it happened "throughout this table". If you haven't saved the workbook yet you may be able to hit the undo button to get your data back in order. Do you have a backup file anywhere that would be useful? Gord On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:47:32 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Well there is suposed ot be a user name in colomn 13b and it moved up to 12b and the one in 12b switched places. this happened thorugh out this table. I'd shou you all but there is some personal info in this spread sheet as well so can't show you all just now. Any suggestions. "Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message . .. Unless you have named your columns, there are no such columns(or rows) as 12b and 13b Do you mean cells B12 and B13? What makes you think they may be switched? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:57 -0700, "marrie" wrote: Hello. I think a certain colome of cells got swieched some how. with out movingthem by hand how can I re swotch them? thanks. example 13b is where 12b is supposed to be. Thanks. |
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