With this utility you can easily move or resize your selected range of cells.
This utility will only change you selected range of cells only, not the data underneath it.

By default you can start this utility with the shortcut Control+Alt+M.

If you've ever worked with imported numbers you might have faced the problem that negative numbers have the minus at the right of the number in stead of on the left. For example it shows 150- in stead of -150. This especially can occur if you import or download data from financial systems. With the minus sign at the right Excel will not recognize the number as a negative number and you cannot use it in your calculations.

There are a few approaches to solve this. In Excel 2002 and 2003 you can specify this in Step 3 of the Text Import Wizard when you click on the "Advanced button" (the option "Trailing minus sign for negative numbers").
You can also use a worksheet function to convert the numbers in an extra column:
=IF(RIGHT(A1,1)="-",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","")*-1,A1)

Another easy and fast approach is to use ASAP Utilities to fix the numbers. Just select the cells and then in the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Numbers » Move "-" from back to front (e.g. "65-" to "-65")

Numbers before:

Numbers after:

An approach to remove all empty rows can be to sort the worksheet. However if you don't want the data to be sorted/shuffled you can use ASAP Utilities to detect and remove all rows that are completely empty (have no data). In the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Columns & Rows » Remove all empty rows. Besides removing all empty rows, ASAP Utilities also contains a utility for removing all empty columns.

Example with empty rows:

Same example with empty rows removed:

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 helper column. However sometimes you might want a faster and more direct approach. Select the data and then in the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Text » Delete number of leading characters...

Then result will then look like this if you choose to remove the first 3 characters:

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 use the table for further processing, such as a pivot table.

Select the cells and then in the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Fill » Copy values to empty cells below filled cells in selection

Then result will then look like:

You can also use the shortcut Control+Alt+D in Excel to copy the value of the cell above. However in this situation that would only work for one brand at a time.

My question to you

Which title do you think, would describe this utility best:

1. Fill empty cells with the value above
2. Copy values to empty cells below filled cells in selection (this is the current name)

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:

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 multiple spaces between the street name and the number. You can use Excel's built-in function =TRIM() to remove these extra spaces. However then you have to create two extra columns in this example where you put this formula. To make this easier I have built a tool in ASAP Utilities (years ago) where you can select the cells and have all the leading, trailing and excessive spaces removed easily.

First select the cells and then in the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Text » Delete leading, trailing and excessive spaces

The example in the video show a list of websites that I copied from my links-page. There is no easy way in Excel itself to get the hyperlinks from the cells. That's why I built such a functionality into ASAP Utilities.

First select the cells and then in the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Web » Extract hyperlinks...

Besides this utility, you can also use the worksheet function =ASAPGetHyperlink() to retreive the link addresses.

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 colleague (Rogier Mensink) often gets back from his customers for Google Adwords campaigns. The keywords where the ads need to be displayed are marked in yellow. With Excel only it is difficult to get a list of only the yellow cells. With ASAP Utilities it is easy, you sort the cells by their color and you have a list of all the yellow cells together.

First select the cells and then in the Excel menu choose ASAP Utilities » Range » Advanced sorting...

Besides sorting by cell color you can also sort on: Value, Number Format, Cell Color, Cell Color Indexnr., Font Color, Font Color Indexnr., Font Size, Font Name, Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Text length, Shuffle (randomize order), Formula, Email address host (@...), Year-Month-Day, Year-Day-Month, Month-Day-Year, Month-Year-Day, Day-Year-Month, Day-Month-Year, Day of the week (start on Sunday), Day of the week (start on Monday)

Note: In Excel 2007 Microsoft has added the ability to sort by color. First you need to convert your data to a table and then you can sort it by color.

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 demonstrates how to remove the leading zeros from the imported data so that the numbers can be used in the calculations: