I created a table with columns for latitude and longitude. I manually entered a few values in them. Some of these cells are highlighted yellow even though the map can plot the location. Is there a reason why they are yellow?
It's a bug I'm working on fixing :-) Normally the yellow highlight in location columns means the value hasn't been geocoded, but for lat/long columns that obviously makes no sense. During updates the point loses track of the fact that it's a lat/long not in need of geocoding, so it's displayed in yellow. If you reload the page, or even leave the tab and come back, it should go back to normal.
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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.
Not sure what is going on but boxplots are not always created for some of the drugs even though there is more than one date point displayed! Please see example. It works just fine for the middle drug but not for the top or bottom one.
I'm stuck on this one, and after a number of google searches am now wondering if I'm the only person who's ever tried to do this.
I have a google sheet that users are required to fill in. There is a drop-down selection option at the top, specifying the region the user needs the file for.
However, as the user gets down to the lines for the individual items required, some (a small number) may not be for the region selected at the top.
So what I'm trying to do is add the regions to the individual lines. The default for each line should be the region selected at the top, so this should show as pre-selected. But I want the user to be able to still click on a drop-down arrow and select a different region for a line.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Thank you!
Okay,
I'm unsure of your expected outcome, your request is also not very clear -
What I've done is created a list via Data validation, however, if a user enters data into the adjacent column:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OsrQCUt-Urf_Gx8_l9CBZkaUlDc311-S-0csa9GAtCQ/edit?usp=sharing
also it's good practice to share an example of your workbook for others to edit and work on.
let me know if this is what you wanted.
I'm a projectionist at a movie theater, and we have a spreadsheet to track all of our content chronologically. Each show has its own row, complete with all of the details regarding time, theater number, format (digital DCP, Blu-ray, 35mm, etc).
We use this to verify at-a-glance where we're at on managing the content to make sure everything is set up to go. I have conditional formatting set up in every cell so that if it's a Yes or - (meaning not applicable to that show) it turns green, and if it's a No or ? (meaning we haven't gotten that information yet) it turns red.
What I want to know is if it's possible to have another column specifically for an overall "Yes" or "No", based automatically on the contents of the rest of the row (for example, column "D" will be green for yes and red for no). So if a show has all of its criteria met for the rest of the row (E* through Z*), manually filled out to turn green, that one cell (D*) will automatically follow suit. If something is missing from the rest of the row and contains even one red cell (anywhere in E* through Z*), that one cell (D*) will stay red as well.
I realize it probably needs a bit of scripting involved for this, which is not within my realm of experience, but I'm not even sure if it's possible. A lot of the spreadsheet is inputted manually, so one more column with a manual cell isn't the most inconvenient, but if we could set it up to be automatic, that would be incredible.
To branch off my comment above:
Additionally, have the cells by default set to red (using the fill option). If any of the cells are "NO", the condition won't be met, and it'll show as red:
Using OR:
=AND(OR(A1="YES",A1="-"),OR(B1="YES",B1="-"),OR(C1="YES",C1="-"))
I have a google sheet with multiple rows of data I am trying to put into a pie chart. The problem is that it reports on blank values as a separate category (not really blank though, they are set to "" as a result of a formula). Is there a way to suppress these blanks?
Since I had the same issue, here how to solve it (at least for line charts):
Double click on the chart so the Chart editor opens. In the tab Customize open Chart style and check the checkbox Plot null values.
Thats it, now empty lines / cells will be ignored and the line will be plotted to the next existing value.
It's best to not put "" in cells in the first place; the presence of such kind-of-empty-but-not-really cells leads to some issues that can be difficult to debug. To avoid such cells, don't use if(A1=1, 2, "") and similar; use if(A1=1, 2, ) instead, leaving the third argument truly blank.
But if you already have a range with some entries like that, you can use a formula like
=arrayformula(if(len(A1:B), A1:B, ))
to clean it up. This leaves most entries unchanged, except that "" will be replaced by blank cells.