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Dirk Everything useful perishes through use....Should I not rejoice at being useless?

Hi Stefaan I think you should have posted this one in the VBA forum 707, but here#s what I would do. First set up a user defined function to return the name of the sheets in your workbook. Function shtname(indx) shtname = Sheets(indx).Name End Function Next, on your summary page list the...

Your first post says Meaning you are trying to return the second column entry in a single column range, hence the #REF! Blue's answer refers to both columns A & B on Sheet2. Dirk Everything useful perishes through use....Should I not rejoice at being useless?

Chris Note that you can simply enter the functions within the conditional formatting itself rather than as a worksheet function and then have the formatting refer to the result. i.e. if you were turning B2 red in colour just select B2, Format/conditional formatting then change the drop down on...

Here's Websters definition. So I would have to say that they are Initialisms (or whatever), but this seems to be a subset of acronyms, therefore they are acronyms by extension. Pedantic? Definitely! ;-)

I think what Jeff is after is a matrix randomly populated with the values that have been created by John's formula. If so, one approach could be to make a random list of all the numbers and then create a matrix of these values 1. do what John has told you 2. name the range of the values that...

That was the scene. Brilliant! Dirk Everything useful perishes through use....Should I not rejoice at being useless?

I read the above and a scene from Good Morning Vietnam sprung to mind - must watch that again. Anyway...just start making up your own when you speak to them (possibly on the spot) or, make a list of the ones they use and give them other meanings and keep asking them to confirm what they do mean...

I can't say I've ever used application.onkey (so apologies if the following is what you are trying to avoid), but can you not just write a one line macro Sub calc Calculate end sub and then assign the shortcut of control+d under tools/macros?

src2 - Skip is right & I totally agree with what he's said. My ideas are to simply slow down the less-knowledgeable. xlveryhidden is usually enough to confound the majority of users I work with, then again so it turning the text color white on the cells with the parameters in!

That's a bit more tricky if the other users know a bit about excel. What is the type of info that you are trying to hide? How is it used? How much do the users need to be able to see? How many cells in the column are to be kept secret? If the users need to enter a few parameters and then...

No probs - but to save you staying up: tomorrow INT(NOW()) will return a value one digit higher than today so you could substitute in INT(NOW())+1 to see what happens. My dates are usually formatted to custom (dd/mm/yyyy) but if you had a format something like 00/00/0000 you would simply be...

I will assume the other columns should be editable. Highlight all cells, Format them (I usually rightclick for this option), on Protection deselect the Lock Cells. Highlight the column you want to protect. Format cells. Lock cells. While it is highlighted, Format menu, Columns, Hide...

Fantastic! Can you tell me if there was a problem with the formatting of the dates as I suspected, as it will probably annoy me for days? Ok, here we go: INT(val) takes the integer part of a number. NOW() returns the current date and time. The date is the integer part and the time is given...

If people are naturally unhelpful you need to motivate or manipulate them into doing what you want. Basically you use a carrot or stick approach. There is a hard nosed (stick) view which is some sort of bullying (names/cursing), hostage taking (depending on your office: hiding the kettle or...