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I will try to answer any question that I can replicate in my current environment (I use Excel 2003 with Windows XP). This may include formula related questions on other Excel versions. Due to time limitations, I am not writing custom code to answer questions any more. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I have worked with Excel for the past 12 years, in various environments.
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What do you need to do exactly? Link one cell at a time, or sum all of them? The procedure you describe would work for the first case, while for the second you could do something like: =SUM(Sheet1:Sheet5!A1)
The sheet may have conditional formatting on that cell. Select the cell and check it on the menu Format->Conditional formatting. If there are any conditions there, remove them. If that doesn't work
You are right, that shouldn't happen. The only explanation that I can think on is that some of the zip codes may have a quote before them, to signal them as literal text, and some other not. They will
You can use the menu Data->Text to columns. This will start a wizard, where you will be able to split the data in one column to several columns based on various criteria that you can define. The result
In Excel 2003, you can use the SUMPRODUCT formula for this, something like: =SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A200="Customer Name"),--(G2:G200="closed")) You can add more conditions following the same schema. The formula
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