Comments on: Excel: Too many different cell formats

by: Excel: Too many different cell formats [ Terminally Incoherent ]

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:43:26 +0000

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by: Deepak Mehta

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:02:33 +0000

Thanks for providing information, i wants to know suggetion how we can minimise this error.

by: Luke Maciak

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:25:14 +0000

Yeah, saving to .txt or even as a comma separated list would work. The problem is that you will lose all formating. With Oo.org you only lose some of it.

Also, I’m not complaining about the tech drones. They are just not trained and not expected to think this way. That’s just how it is.

by: Paul

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:56:32 +0000

There is a much simpler way of stripping all formatting. Save the original doc as a *.txt file and then re-open the *.txt file in Excel. ‘Techs’ do a job to a curtain level. They aren’t experts, but at least they have a job and some knowledge, which is fine for everyday problems. However, advice is just that. You can choose to take or leave it. How many ordinary workers suffer this specific problem? I would imagine not many. I found this site because I took my business’s bloated an unweildly sheet and wanted to improve it. I encountered the problem and looked for a solution. On reading the OO solution, it occurred to me to just save in *txt. So, we now have the solution and we can get back to our own problems. Do we really need to complain about someone elses employment and ability? I hope I don’t sound sanctimonious. I just think there is enough stress and pressure at work without projecting annoyances at innocent people. Now excuse me, I can now work on the pivot table that I originally set out to do before the problem arose. Thanks for reading.

by: Luke Maciak

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:24 +0000

Good question. Probably wouldn’t, but then again I never really tried that.

by: Shan

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:30:14 +0000

This wouldn’t work if you have VBA in the original spreadsheet, would it?

by: Luke Maciak

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:46 +0000

I don’t use excel and hell i seldom even use OO

Same here. I use it at work because that’s what my coworkers use. When I write stuff for myself, I use plain text, or latex.

by: Adam Kahtava

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:09:52 +0000

Agreed,

ignorance fuels monoculture, and it in turn fuels ignorance

. Similarly employee turnover engenders turnover, poverty engenders poverty, …

by: Starhawk

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:18:58 +0000

I don’t use excel and hell i seldom even use OO but this is hilarious. And the funniest part of it to me is that faced with this problem one of the first things I would think of would be to run it thru open office. I mean shit its obvious, one program can’t fix it try another, that is like grade school cs stuff to me. Anyway i suppose you’re right

ignorance fuels monoculture, and it in turn fuels ignorance. )

A vicious cycle reminds me a bit of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s ideas of death spirals over at the overcoming biases web site.

by: Luke Maciak

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:29:09 +0000

Good point. I think it actually goes a full circle - ignorance fuels monoculture, and it in turn fuels ignorance.