From jbartow at winhaven.net  Thu May 12 18:45:37 2016
From: jbartow at winhaven.net (John R Bartow)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 18:45:37 -0500
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel: sub-set of a page returns zero for blank
Message-ID: <017501d1aca8$62f21310$28d63930$@winhaven.net>

Hi all,

I'm using Excel column referencing in this manner =IF(Office!B:B ="yes",
Office!J:J, "") to pull together certain columns of a the main "Office"
sheet into another sheet.

 

Unfortunately, regardless of cell formatting, if the referenced cell is
empty it returns a zero. How can I eliminate the zero?

 

Much of the referenced information in the subset sheet's column is plain
text data.

 

Regards,

John B


From ssharkins at gmail.com  Thu May 12 19:59:42 2016
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 20:59:42 -0400
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel: sub-set of a page returns zero for blank
In-Reply-To: <017501d1aca8$62f21310$28d63930$@winhaven.net>
References: <017501d1aca8$62f21310$28d63930$@winhaven.net>
Message-ID: <00ae01d1acb2$bc328a40$34979ec0$@gmail.com>

A quick test -- when the cell is empty, the IF() statement returns an empty
string, as expected. Can you send the worksheet over to me and let me take a
look at it? 

Susan H. 

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Subject: [Dba-office] Excel: sub-set of a page returns zero for blank
Importance: High

Hi all,

I'm using Excel column referencing in this manner =IF(Office!B:B ="yes",
Office!J:J, "") to pull together certain columns of a the main "Office"
sheet into another sheet.

 

Unfortunately, regardless of cell formatting, if the referenced cell is
empty it returns a zero. How can I eliminate the zero?

 

Much of the referenced information in the subset sheet's column is plain
text data.

 

Regards,

John B

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From jbartow at winhaven.net  Thu May 12 21:00:40 2016
From: jbartow at winhaven.net (John R Bartow)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 21:00:40 -0500
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel: sub-set of a page returns zero for blank
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References: <017501d1aca8$62f21310$28d63930$@winhaven.net>
	<00ae01d1acb2$bc328a40$34979ec0$@gmail.com>
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Sure can, its on its way.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:00 PM
To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [Dba-office] Excel: sub-set of a page returns zero for blank

A quick test -- when the cell is empty, the IF() statement returns an empty
string, as expected. Can you send the worksheet over to me and let me take a
look at it? 

Susan H. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dba-office [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
Of John R Bartow
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:46 PM
To: 'Off Topic' <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>; DBA Office
<dba-office at databaseadvisors.com>; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software
issues' <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [Dba-office] Excel: sub-set of a page returns zero for blank
Importance: High

Hi all,

I'm using Excel column referencing in this manner =IF(Office!B:B ="yes",
Office!J:J, "") to pull together certain columns of a the main "Office"
sheet into another sheet.

 

Unfortunately, regardless of cell formatting, if the referenced cell is
empty it returns a zero. How can I eliminate the zero?

 

Much of the referenced information in the subset sheet's column is plain
text data.

 

Regards,

John B

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From ssharkins at gmail.com  Thu May 26 19:44:31 2016
From: ssharkins at gmail.com (Susan Harkins)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 20:44:31 -0400
Subject: [Dba-office] interesting Word bug
Message-ID: <000701d1b7b0$eff4cce0$cfde66a0$@gmail.com>

I'm trying to sort a Word table by fields within a column. If you follow the
instructions at the linked support article, it works as long as the sorted
column is the first one in the table. If it's any other column, I can't get
this to work. 

 

Any insight? 

 

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Sort-the-contents-of-a-table-F83924
77-4613-49CD-ABA6-7C2E48F1D91F?ui=en-US
<https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Sort-the-contents-of-a-table-F8392
477-4613-49CD-ABA6-7C2E48F1D91F?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#bm3>
&rs=en-US&ad=US#bm3

 

Sort by more than one word or field inside a table column

I knew how to do this, but I don't think I'd tried it on a column other than
the first before today. 

Thanks!

Susan