Very very minor thing I find annoying and / or haven't figured out what I am doing wrong on Google Sheets.
In Excel, when you turn a cell a specific colour, it remembers the last colour you used, so you can click on the colour fill button and it will apply the same colour, rather than having to re-select it in the dropdown menu (see example screenshot of 'Excel').
In Google Sheets, the button shows the current colour of the cell (which I think is self-evident anyway), so I have to go into the drop down menu each time to select the new colour (see example screenshot of 'Sheets').
So my question is - is there a way for Google Sheets to retain the last colour used on the fill colour button?
What might be handy, is the format painter (Circled icon). Not perfect, but may save you 1 or more clicks. Just select the cell you want to copy the format, click on the format painter and click on the new cell or range (with control) you want to apply the format.
unfortunately no. in Google Sheets you always need to enter the color picker so this can be done by a minimum of two clicks
the only tool that remembers color is border color
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I have a spreadsheet created with importrange functions that pulls data from another file. The problem I'm facing is that when I try to print out the spreadsheet and save as pdf, the pdf includes all the cells I've set up to receive my data, the empty ones too, and I end up with a 4 page pdf with 3 empty pages.
I tried to put a filter() function in front of the importrange, so that if the importrange somehow imports null values and puts them in the empty cells making them no empty even though they look like it, that would do it, it didn't.
I've also read that google spreadsheet interpretes white background color as fill color, and to set it back to default background, and I did, but it didn't solve it.
I've removed the importrange functions at all to see if it was that that was doing it, it wasn't.
Finally, I've thought about formatting, because those cells are formatted with white borders, but I removed all custom borders and it still prints out all the cells.
To reiterate, I need to be able to do print > save as pdf and get a pdf that contains only the cells used, and I have an old spreadsheet that I'm improving upon that does exactly this (that is not made by me) and has very similar formatting, so I don't understand what's the issue here.
Here's one workaround:
Select the cells you want to include in your PDF
Click on "File" > "Download" > "PDF"
When the Print Settings/Export window appears, select "Selected cells" instead of "Current sheet" under "Export" in the top right corner
This screen capture shows the window in question.
Bois, I figured it out.
It's a pretty dumb thing, but I didn't know it.
The solution is absolutely no formatting of any kind, it's ok to have formulas that dont output anything, and custom text color for the cell, but all the cells must be separated and with default background color and default border color (AKA no border option).
What kept bugging me is the fact that my reference project had no cell borders and it had this loong table that never printed out if not necessary, and I assumed it had white borders, but it didn't.
Turns out the option to hide cell borders (VIEW > SHOW > GRID LINES) at all is connected to the spreadsheet itself, not the user, so if you disable it, everytime you open the file, from every account connected, it is not gonna show, so that's how they did it.
This is quite a hard question to explain. Here is how it looks.
I have a script on Google Sheets that exports data to Google Form quiz. There are 500+ questions in quiz, properly filled with that script. To put the Right answers (Key answers) in Google Form I need to fill right cells in Google Sheet in green colour, then the script will do its job.
Key answers are filled in column M. Digits: 1=(right key answer) in column 1 (I), 2=J, 3=K and 4=L.
Can I use a formula or a macro that will check column M and fill in green colour Right answer cells on the same row?
If I'm understanding you correctly, this can be done with a custom Conditional Format formula. Do the following:
Click on cell I4. Select from the menu Format > Conditional
Formatting
When the CF window opens, the "Apply to range" field
will say I4. Change it to I4:L.
Under "Format rules / Format
cells if..." click the dropdown arrow and select the last option:
"Custom formula is"
In the blank field that appears below that (it
will show a "Value or formula" placeholder), enter the following
custom formula: =(ISNUMBER($M4))*(COLUMN(I4)=COLUMN($I4)+($M4-1))
In the "Formatting style" panel, click the paint bucket icon and
select the background color of your choice.
Click the "Done" button and close the Conditional Formatting dialog
window.
I am using storyboard to lay out my iOS app. I want to re-use some colors, and I don't want to re-enter the same hex string multiple times. What is the best way to do this?
You can drag the current color in the color picker (from the bottom left) to the list of swatches as in the screenshot:
You can also use the dropdown for picking a color to use a recent color. The list of recently used colors looks like it keeps 24 of them.
I am looking to format 500+ rows of data and essentially, G5-K5 (in every row) needs to be highlighted a light color (any color) if J5 equals "Regular".
This same condition will exist in every row, so it should be simple - but I am not an excel master by any means. I just don't think it's necessary to create 500+ conditions for each row!
That is actually pretty simple.
You right click one of the cells to do the formatting(one with
regular for example) and select Conditional Formatting on the menu.
Then you make sure the Range is the cell you right clicked, select
"The text is exactly" in the list and type "Regular in the field
under it.
Select the color under that field and press the blue button.
After that you just need to press the paint format tool(the paint
roll) and drag all the cells you want to have the same
behaviour(probably the entire column of the right clicked cell).
It is possible to put a tooltip on a single cell of my alv? I know that it is possible in a column by a field catalog, but what about single cell?
I have ALV with icon like that, which is called via cl_gui_alv_gridv
I want information about this item in tooltip when I hover mouse over this icon
The information on how to display a symbol with a tooltip is easily available if you google for "site:help.sap.com tooltip icon". Since you seem to be unable to find it, here is the actual link. Make the target field large enough (132 characters is a common size), then use the function ICON_CREATE.
If you don't want an icon to appear, you can use ICON_SPACE. And since the tooltip is contained in the value of each cell, of course it is possible to have different tooltips for different cells.