Archive for the tag 'excel'

Feb 15 2005

How To Display A Dash In Excel

Published by Jody under what i learned today

To display a dash (-) as the first character in a cell in Microsoft Excel (so it isn’t interpreted as a mathematical symbol), prefix the dash with an apostrophe, like so:
‘- This value begins with a dash.
I’ve been programming in VBA for Excel and other products since VBA first came out, but I’m not [...]

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Jul 05 2004

Software Misuse

Published by Jody under annoyances, internet & computers

Darren Barefoot writes about one incident of Microsoft Excel’s misuse. I’ve seen it used as a word processer, for games, as a database, and a drawing program.
I’ve received emails where the email’s content is in an attached Word document instead of in the email itself.
I’ve seen Flash used for a web site when HTML [...]

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