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Old May 27th, 2010, 09:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
John
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Open office org - while working on excel sheet, prompting of words helps a
lot in reducing the time of work. Is microsoft excel having the same function
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Old May 27th, 2010, 09:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Dave Peterson
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There's an autocomplete feature that will look at the cells right above the cell
getting the entry and try to help by matching on those few cells.

In xl2003 menus:
tools|options|Edit Tab|check Enable AutoComplete for cell values

There's an autocorrect feature (shared among all the programs in the office
suite (excel, word, powerpoint, ...).

Tools|Autocorrect options|Autocorrect tab

You can type in a unique abbreviation and excel/word/ppt/etc will convert it to
what you want.

For instance, you could have |J replaced with John.

This is the same feature that excel (and Office) uses to correct those typos:

Teh becomes The
hsa becomes has
....

John wrote:

Open office org - while working on excel sheet, prompting of words helps a
lot in reducing the time of work. Is microsoft excel having the same function


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Old May 27th, 2010, 10:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Jacob Skaria
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Default prompting while typing

Excel autocomplete works only if the value is previously entered into the
same column, and there are no blank cells between the values and the current
cell.. The match that Excel fetches is nothing but the contents of the
immediately adjacent cells above the one in which you are entering the data.

--It stops trying to match entries when a blank cell is reached. Incase you
have information from A1 to A5 and then from A7 to A10; if you make a new
entry in A11, excel only try to match entries in A7:A10.

--The cells must contain either text or a combination of text and numbers.
Cells that contain numerics, dates, or times are not considered.

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Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"John" wrote:

Open office org - while working on excel sheet, prompting of words helps a
lot in reducing the time of work. Is microsoft excel having the same function

 




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