 At the top of the keyboard, press the F11 key.
A column chart will be created, on a new worksheet:

The AutoCorrect window will appear (see below).

Click on the AutoCorrect tab at the top of the window. 

You can click on the boxes you want to uncheck – for example, Capitalize first letter of sentences. 

Click on OK.  

Select the cells you want to merge -

For example, to center the word “Budget” over all the columns in this spreadsheet, select the cells you want to merge (cells A1 through M1):

Click on the Merge and Center button in the toolbar:

The selected cells will be merged into one cell.

Type the heading text into this cell

Press Enter.

The heading will be centered over columns A through M.

Answer…

1. Make a copy of the file to work in, and save the original file.

Insert a column to the left of Product (you can give it the heading “test”)

Create a formula that returns “TRUE” if the text in the Product column contains “wedding” and “FALSE” if the text does not contain “wedding”:

In cell B2, enter the formula:
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH(”wedding”,C2))

This formula will search through cell C2 and if it finds the word “wedding”, it will display “TRUE” in cell B2; if it does not find the word “wedding” it will display the word “FALSE” in cell B2.

Copy this formula all the way down the column.

All of the rows that contain the word “wedding” in the Product column will now display “TRUE.”

2. Now you want to remove the formulas in column B, so that you only have the answers to the formulas, i.e., either the text “TRUE” or the text “FALSE”:

Copy column B
Click on cell B1
Right-click and click on Paste Special
In the Paste Special window that appears, click on “Values” and click on OK.
This will replace the formulas in column B with text.

3. Now delete all of the rows that do not contain “wedding”:

Sort the spreadsheet on the Test column (column B), from largest to smallest – this will bring all of the “TRUE” to the top of the column.

Scroll down to the first row that has “FALSE” in column B and click in column A of that row.
Press Ctl+Shift+End to select all of the cells from that cell to the end of the spreadsheet.
Press the delete key to delete the selection.

4. Only the rows that have the word “wedding” somewhere in the Product column will remain. You can now delete the ‘test’ column B.

You can delete all of the addresses and headers - in fact you can make any changes in the email that you want - as long as you click the Forward button before you try to change anything. Once you’ve made any changes you want to make, you can enter the email addresses and click on Send.

You can do this very quickly:

1. Sort the list by attorney

2. Click on Data in the Menu Bar, click on Subtotal. The Subtotal window will appear. Set it to

At each change in:

Attorney

Use function:

Count

Add subtotal to:

Court Room

And Place check marks in ALL THREE boxes:

 Replace current subtotals

 Page break between groups

 Summary below data

Click OK.

 Excel will count and display the number of cases for each attorney, and insert a page break between each. (Be sure you have sorted the list by attorney first, or else this won’t work!)

Answer…

1. You can display just the phone number, regardless of the length of the area code, if you display only the last (or right-most) 8 characters of the column. To do this type in the formula:

=right(cell address,# of characters)

In this example the cell address is C2

The number of characters is 8.

The formula would be =right(C2,8)

2. To display only the first initial of the first name, you want to display only the first (left-most) character of the column. To do this type in the formula:

=left(cell address, # of characters)

In this example the cell address is B2

The number of characters is 1.

The formula would be =left(B2,1)

What’s happening is that Word thinks you want to type a numbered list, and is trying to help you by formatting what you type as a numbered list. You can turn this off by clicking on… (Word 2003) or … Word 2007.

Excel displays #’s when the column is too narrow to completely display a number or date. To see the number or date displayed correctly, make the column wide enough by clicking and dragging the column wider.