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Post by Chicago Jake on Aug 29, 2008 14:31:23 GMT -6
Okay, all you Excel jockeys out there (Gordon? TexJohn? BB?), here's a question. I've got a spreadsheet that calculates means and standard deviations of large bunches of experimental data and displays them in several columns. Now I want to manipulate those means and standard deviations into a further analysis.
I want to copy the numbers to another sheet, but I do NOT want to copy the formulas that generated them. I just want to copy them as literal numbers, as if I had typed them in myself.
Is there any way to do that, short of retyping them all myself? Thanks, anyone......Jake
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 29, 2008 15:41:44 GMT -6
I dont use Excel, but in Quattro Pro that is very easy, highlight the cells of interest, then Edit>Convert to Values, and bam its done. Whatever the result of any calculation that was in the cell(s) in question becomes a number(s), and the formula in that cell is overwritten.
Surely Excel must have something similar.
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Post by U No Hu on Aug 29, 2008 15:53:38 GMT -6
When you do a Paste in Excel, you have the option of doing Values Only -- this allows you to Paste the output of the formula without the cell containing the formula itself. You need to use Paste Special instead of just the regular Paste in order to do this.
-- BB (once again being forced by Jake to work on his day off)
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Post by innit Geezer on Aug 29, 2008 16:00:44 GMT -6
Well, at least we know you're alright and just taking a leave of absence.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Aug 29, 2008 17:58:40 GMT -6
Thanks, gang. I tried the suggestions and you are all exactly correct. I knew this resource would come through.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten back to this project yet as Hazel dragged me off to the bedroom. No, not for that. We had to hang some shelves and put in a new light switch......Jake (whose home is barely recognizable) (but in a good way, mind you)
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Aug 29, 2008 17:59:32 GMT -6
OK, Jake wins the pool by drawing out BB... good work Jake!
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Post by Irish Stu on Aug 29, 2008 18:07:37 GMT -6
OK, Jake wins the pool by drawing out BB... good work Jake! Damn!! I've been busy all week researching more toilet and shit stories and pictures that I could post to flush him out. Good job Jake. Simon |
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Post by Chicago Jake on Aug 30, 2008 0:16:05 GMT -6
You all made the mistake of thinking his scatological proclivities outweighed his geekiness. Rookie error......Jake (it takes a geek to know a geek)
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Post by Irish Guise on Aug 30, 2008 16:39:05 GMT -6
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Post by Irish Stu on Sept 1, 2008 15:53:13 GMT -6
Damn!! I've been busy all week researching more toilet and shit stories and pictures that I could post to flush him out. Then why didn't you post ... THIS! How remiss of me to have missed that one. Simon |
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