The following video will show you how to how to fix trailing minus signs in Excel by using ASAP Utilities. This can be useful if you have imported data from a system that reports negative numbers with a trailing minus.
If you've ever worked with imported numbers you might have faced the problem that negative numbers [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will show you how to remove all empty rows in Excel by using ASAP Utilities. This can be useful if you have a large amount of data imported or copied together that you now want to clean up.
An approach to remove all empty rows can be to sort the worksheet. However if [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will show you how to strip the first 3 characters from a column in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
The example in the video shows a list of article numbers. Now in this case we want to remove the first 3 characters.
This can be done with an Excel formula such as =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-3) in a [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will show you how to fill empty cells with the value above in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
The example in the video shows a table with several car-brands. Now in this case we want the brand-names copied down so that the empty cells are filled with the brand names. After this we can [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will show you how to sort the sheet-tabs in alphabetical order in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
The example in the video show a workbook with several sheets with city-names:
In the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Sheets » Sort all sheets in alphabetical order
Then result will then look like:
Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will demonstrate you how to delete leading, trailing and excessive spaces from cells (trim) in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
The example in the video shows an address list with too many spaces:
Several street- and city names contain a space at the beginning and/or at the end. Furthermore in a few names there are [...]
Posted on October 11th, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will demonstrate you how to sort by color in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
It is not possible to sort by color in Excel. However we find that many people use colors to "tag" certain cells that need to be processed later.
The example in the video show a list of keywords such as my [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will demonstrate you how to remove (or trim) leading zeros from numbers within a range in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
This utility also works for numbers that are not recognized by Excel or are proceeded with an apostrophe (such as '2). You can usually recognize these numbers because they are left-aligned:
The following video [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will demonstrate you how to select the unique values within a range in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
The video demonstrates how to select the color names that appear only once in the list:
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Bastien
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The following video will demonstrate you how to list filenames in a folder in Excel by using ASAP Utilities.
It is a perfect tool for creating catalogs of the files of your CD's and DVD's.
The video will demonstrate how to import the contents of a folder and shows you how you can easily select a certain folder [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Bastien
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