It would be really nice to have a rich text field that could also have a rich text default value. Does anyone know of a way to do this?
As is: A. B. C. D.
My dream:
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It does work.
"<div><strong>A.</strong></div>" ->
And in a form:
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hello to all who are able to help me I apologize in advance because I know it's somewhere on stackoverflow but I can't find it
I need it to automatically assign me a number to the selected column
(do not look at the date in columns C and D)
in column B there are unique repeatable names and I want it to have a number assigned depending on which time it has already been written
and I would like it to be dependent on column E as well
I don't want something like that
just something like this
Thanks for Help
I looked on the website but I couldn't find it, I know it's there somewhere
try in A2:
=INDEX(COUNTIFS(B2:B; B2:B; ROW(B2:B); "<="&ROW(B2:B)))
This question will have two parts. If you're willing to help me out, feel free to address whichever chunk you've got the time or interest for. Thanks in advance.
Assume there are two cells in a spreadsheet, the first (A1) has the text hello inside, and the second (A2) has =T(A1), so they now both say hello. If I want to change the text in A1, but want the text in A2 to continue to read hello, is there a way to automate this?
For some context, this is part of a larger project where I want to create a column of stock tickers that I like. Ideally, I could type the ticker name into a cell, check a box if I want to track it, and it would automatically add itself to a column. Where the first part of this question becomes relevant is that I would then move on to another stock, deleting the first ticker I wrote, but still wanting it in my column.
The second part of the question is about making the column. My instinct would be to use the =ARRAYFORMULA function, but that draws from a column to begin with, so I'm a little bit stuck.
Thanks
answer for Q1:
no, not possible unless you hardcode A2 as:
=T("hello")
or you use a script to remember your value but in that case, the A2 will host a custom function instead of the formula you mentioned
ofc what you are mentioning with those tickers, checkboxes and moving values around it's completely doable with a script
answer for Q2:
it depends on the formulae you use. not all formulas are supported under ARRAYFORMULA
in my original workbook i want to display some values from another sheet for multiple actions.. so i put drop down list for each actions. but when the actions increased i couldn't recognize each formulas. (all of them are import range) so that if i can name each formulas in the drop down then i can recognize fast which action to be performed. here a sample sheet is attached for a solution.. pls take a look. in the dropdown list i included (=a2+b2) instead of that if it displayed as addition in drop down list would be help ful. please take a look.
sorry for my english
Any type of help would be appreciated.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mpIWyQASMlxRVdlTkv9K1e4oihsrckjT6sD1mLDxvEc/edit#gid=0
If I understand correctly, you want to have a dropdown list menu (from Data Validation) that displays the operation name, but when you click it, it displays just the result.
This is very hacky, but here's a way to create some "labels" in your criteria box:
=IF(;"ADDITION";A2+B2),
=IF(;"SUBTRACTION";A2-B2),
=IF(;"DIVISION";A2/B2),
=IF(;"MULTIPLICATION";A2*B2),
How?(!)
After kicking around some no-op ideas, I finally settled on this as the cleanest and most flexible approach. (By some freak coincidence, it also makes some semantic sense too.) It works because when the first argument to IF is omitted, it defaults to 0 -> FALSE. This effectively makes the second argument to IF a comment/no-op, and always just selects the formula.
Yes, the semicolons are intentional or the parser will think of the args as list items.
Productivity Tip/Footnotes
Sheets will remove any line breaks in your validation criteria, so the formula will be hard to read when you have to edit it. If you anticipate that you'll be adding a bunch of functions later, save the above block in a text file and edit that. Then you can copy+paste it into the validation field.
It will also always show up as "INVALID" because the value will of course never match the formula text.
I would like to parse the content of a cell into a URL based on the entered content of the same cell in Google Sheets. I need the entire column to be processed.
Right now I can only accomplish this with two columns like this...
Column A has an ID number. Column B uses an array to parse a URL based on the ID number in Column A. The array formula I'm using in B2 is...
=ARRAYFORMULA(HYPERLINK("http://www.website.com/content/"&B3:B, ""&B3:B))
So A3 might have the ID number entry: 216856
And this creates the URL in B3: http://www.website.com/content/216856
But what I would really love, is a way to do this with one column. Perhaps through a script? Can anyone help me with this, please? Thank you!
If you highlight the column you want to transform then go to edit and choose the find and replace functionality or press command shift and H it will also pop up - then in the find field enter: ^ and in the replace field enter http://www.website.com/content/ and check the search using regular expressions checkbox.
Once you click replace all, it will add that part of the url to the beginning of all the cells thus turning it into a URL for you. Super easy and generally pretty quick depending on how many rows you have - I have done this with tens of thousands of rows and more.
I want to autofill a formula to a bunch of fields in one column. I can do that by filling two fields manually then select them and drag down.
I want column B's cells to be =D1*A1 , =D1*A2,... Note D1 should not change.
When I drag the fields down or use (Edit > Fill...) it changes D1 to D2, D3,... How can I keep one field fixed for autofill?
Holding ctrl button down does not help.
Any idea?
Make your "master" formula =D$1*A1. That flags the 1 in the D$1 part as being constant. You could also make the D part constant with =$D$1*A1, but since you stated this is a single column, it shouldn't matter in this case.
Note that this also works for Microsoft Excel, and I think that it's been a common feature of almost all spreadsheets since way back to supercalc on HDOS.
I just found another way (that is not easier than twalberg's, but worth mentioning)...
You can define a name (Insert > Names... Define). Select a field and give it a name. Then the name in your formulas.