In my software for calling I have time in format 02:35 (duration of the call). I just highlight it and ctrl+c. Then I go to my google sheets and paste this text via ctrl+v into the corresponding column. The column formatting is hh:mm:ss. But after pasting I've got 02:35:00, instead of 00:02:35
I tried different types of formatting the column, but nothing has worked.
I can't use formulas to make such formatting because a large team of people do the same procedures in their own sheets, so it should be automatically
pre-format the column in which you paste stuff to Plain text:
if that's not enought then use this formula to fix your times:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A:A<>"", TEXT("00:"&A:A, "mm:ss"), ))
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I recently took care of a working data sheet, with about 30 sheets of several thousand rows each sheet, with many cell colored for difference purpose. Most of the sheets only have raw data; a few working sheets have formulas / arrayformulas.
Here's a portion of my workbook:
In the red circle, you can see "Calculating formula....". This appears in my sheet very frequently, generally whenever I edit anything in any cell in any sheet.
I followed https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/slow-google-sheets/ which doesn't help much to my situation. yeah, all 27 of them.
Now what I want to know is, is there any way to know just what is Google Sheets doing during the time that "Calculating formula..... " bar appear ? So I can see whichever function / formula is taking my precious time and then improve it.
Edit --
Since I cannot share the sheet, at least I'll share the working formula so that you guys can figure what is the sheets doing.
These are to be pasted to get the input data when working. Result will then be value pasted again to data sheet. These formulas are only in the working sheet:
v
=VLOOKUP($D2,TEMP!$A$1:$AT$99,23,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP($D2,TEMP!$A$1:$AT$99,11,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP($D2,TEMP!$A$1:$AT$99,16,FALSE)
=REGEXREPLACE(TO_TEXT(VLOOKUP($D2,TEMP!$A$1:$AT$99,17,FALSE)), "^84", "0")
=VLOOKUP($D2,TEMP!$A$1:$AT$99,46,FALSE)
=VLOOKUP($D2,TEMP!$A$1:$AT$992,18,FALSE)
=CONCATENATE(VLOOKUP($D3,TEMP!$G$1:$AS$492,9,FALSE), ",", VLOOKUP($D3,TEMP!$G$1:$AS$492,10,FALSE), ",", VLOOKUP($D3,TEMP!$G$1:$AS$492,7,FALSE))
=VLOOKUP($D3,TEMP!$G$1:$AS$492,6,FALSE)
=REGEXREPLACE(TO_TEXT(VLOOKUP($D3,TEMP!$G$1:$AS$492,12,FALSE)), "^84", "")
This formula is used to set the status of the data -- only in working sheet:
v
ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISERROR(MATCH(E7:E10178,DonHangTraVe!A1:A20014,0)),IF(ISERROR(MATCH(D7:D10178,DonHangTraVe!C1:C20014,0)),IF(ISERROR(MATCH(D7:D10178,LAZ_Delivered!B1:B20000,0)),"","Received"),"Returned"), "Lost")))
This formula is placed in all of the data sheets. It will get the value in column E, turn them into links to their corresponding data in the server:
v
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ROW(F:F)=1,"LINK", IF(LEN(E:E)=13, HYPERLINK("http://www._____________________?key=" & E:E, E:E), "")))
Those are the main formulas.
There is this one formula in a sheet, but it is turned off by placing a value one cell below. (Not me. I'm still trying to figure this out. Even the sheet maker unsure why he did that)
=ArrayFormula(trim(concatenate(filter(indirect("AQ1:AQ500")&" "®EXREPLACE(indirect("AR1:AR500"), "Dòng sản phẩm tương thích:.+",""), indirect("G1:G500")=G1)&CHAR(10))))
I turned the last formula down by setting an if with a switch (Benlcollins idea) but it doesn't help much.
After looking at all the formula, I think maybe the problem of my sheet lie in the arrayformula which adds the link.. I will tinker with it for now.
Still, the question remain.. is there any tool / script / addon that shows what google spreadsheet has been doing under these "Calculating formula..." bar ??
On the side note, this sheet is not using any script, in case you wonder if there's anything in onEdit(e) ..
Im wondering is there any ways to make this possible:
I have a nstextfield(or nstextview). And I also have one button, clicking on that should activate Bold mode for selected text, or the text that would written further.
First idea I had - is to use attributes for characters that would be written further, but this idea is not so good, as I would need to save that string in file later. I can save attributed string, but this gives me not proper format, what I would like to see is kind of or smth like that.
If I understand correctly your "First idea" is correct. Within your program you use NSAttributedString to add bold etc. your text. When you wish to save the text you can convert to HTML, or a number of other formats, and reading these formats and converting back to NSAttributed is also supported. A good place to start is Formatted Documents and Attributed Strings.
I'm using BIRT as reporting tool. while exporting the datas from the BIRT report as PDF. the long texts got hidden. I have attached the image.
from the above image in the MM Group column the long texts got hidden. is there any way to overcome it?
When autowrapping is activated it should wrap to a new line. I'm not sure why it doesn't do it.
I think it is because there are no spaces in the text. It sees the "100000,100200,OVCR..." as one long word which doesn't get wrapped.
Are you concatenating these values yourself? Just add in a space after every comma.
Otherwise replace comma's with comma-space with code like:
row["MMGroup"].split(",").join(", ");
You can simply modify the data element in the table.
(javascript function replace() will only replace the first occurrence)
While in class I like to take handwritten notes, afterwards I scan them and then type them up (helps me remember them and also makes them easily searchable). The main issue is I have is I use A LOT of drawings and complex math and converting the math formulas into latex (or word) is very time consuming and the drawings require that I keep the PDF and the text document. What I would like to do is take the basic text that I have typed myself (no OCR) and add a text layer to the PDF's that way the PDF's will be searchable and I can save a lot of time by not converting the math or drawings.
I've looked into Preview, PDFpenPro, acrobat, a couple of linux programs but so far I haven't really found anything that will do this.
Any idea of how I could do this or a program to use?
I also scan my notes. Sometimes I go back and add some text to them using this technique:
Open up the scanned pdf in Preview, then click on the "Edit" button in the top right corner, then the "Text tools" button on the left side (its a little box with Aa in it). From there you can drag open a text box and type into it.
Now the secret trick is that if you save it here as it is and try to open it in your ipad using PDFExpert or some other program then the text might not be there. So here's how to go through that slight hiccup: After you've annotated your notes how you want instead of just saving it as a pdf, use the Print option: File->Print or Command+P. Now click the PDF button on the left to "Save it as a pdf". Now that its printed you can open it and search it in any program that reads pdfs. Attached is an example.
One other thing, it seems like maybe you want to write over your existing handwritten text with typed text? I'm not sure if this is the best way. But if that's what I was trying to do I would:
Scan my notes
Read through them, typing them up as you said
Open the scanned notes in Photoshop or some other program
Draw a giant White Fill White Stroke rectangle over the handwritten text
Save it as a pdf
Do the technique above and copy and paste the typed text from step 2.
I hope this helps. And I wish you luck, I'm still working out the kinks myself for scanned notes but the possibilities have me pretty excited!
EDIT: I just checked out PDFpenPro, which I highly recommend because you don't have to go through that printing trick, you can just save the pdf document after annotating and other programs will recognize the annotations.
As we all know, when one is to send email with some Mathematica code in it, the practice is to do the following
Select the cell, Cell->ConvertTo -> INPUT FORM, then COPY AS TEXT
Then paste the code into the email, or any other exchange media it is.
The only problem with the above, is that when, on the other end, one copies the text from email and paste it back into a Mathematica notebook, the code will then no longer appear as it was in the original form (before the converting to INPUT FORM).
Because when one inserts the text copied from the email to Mathematica notebook, it becomes a standard form cell. All well, except the original code formatting is all lost.
Try it if you have not, convert a cell to INPUT FORM and the code will change shape, and I could not find a way to get back the original form before this operation.
Is there a way to email Mathematica code, in text of course, so that it keeps the same shape, and appear the same as it was originally when it was in standard form before the conversion?
Thanks
--Nasser
Cells formatted with the Code style (ALT/CMD-8) retain all formatting when using copy-and-paste. I use them all the time to format postings for SO. Well, truth be told, I use Code cells pretty much all the time, except for one-shot or throw-away input.
There are other advantages to using the Code style. It makes it easy to evaluate all of the definitions in a notebook, without also evaluating all of the incidental and test expressions: ALT/CMD-click on the cell bracket of any of the Code cells and then press SHIFT-ENTER. Also, Code cells automatically become initialization cells, which is frequently exactly what you want for the definitions in a notebook. Finally, when Mathematica spots Code cells in a notebook it offers to create an auto-save package that contains only those cells.
The downside to Code cells is that you lose the automatic formatting that Mathematica performs on cells with the Input style -- but then again that automatic formatting is precisely what we are trying to avoid in the context of this question.
Copying the cell as a cell expression doest the trick. Just right-click the cell bracket and the Copy as > Cell expression.
The resulting code is unusable for posting in newsgroups, as it is highly unreadable, but copying to and from email and back into Mathematica seems to preserve layout in the few tests that I did.
Since the problem is sending the code over email, why not just send (a part of) the notebook as an attachment. No copy-pasting mess, and guaranteed identical formatting.