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Stale values (Scratched functions)

Posted on June 30, 2025 By ANmar No Comments on Stale values (Scratched functions)
Stale values (Scratched functions)

Excel recently started to show cells with formulas scratched (see screenshot). Looks like this new feature to tell user that these cells will have new values and they are in the process of getting calculated. If you want to disable that feature, uncheck “Show stale values” in “Calculation Options” in “Formula” bar (Screenshot)

Excel User tips, Format Cells, Non-functions, Worksheet

Pixel Excel Drawing

Posted on August 22, 2022 By ANmar
Pixel Excel Drawing

This guy has nothing to stop him

Format Cells, Graphics, Non-functions

Comments versus Notes

Posted on August 1, 2022 By ANmar
Comments versus Notes

It is official and looks better now, I know it might be confusing, but I liked it so far

Excel now has “Comments”, the classic Comments are now called “Notes”

I used Notes a lot, mainly to remind me of certain expectations of some cells, or guide the user to some additional info about some cells, so got confused when I tried to insert Comment into cell.

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Blank (isempty) VS “” (null string)

Posted on February 18, 2020 By ANmar
Blank (isempty) VS “” (null string)

If formula results in “”, then that cell will not be empty.When copy and paste as values, it will not be empty either.VersusWhen we use VBA (Macro command) Range.value = Range.value For that “” cell, it will make destination cell as empty. Sorting table will consider cells with “” as 0, while empty cells are…

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Excel keeps converting all cells to “Date” (or Time)

Posted on February 14, 2020 By ANmar
Excel keeps converting all cells to “Date” (or Time)

Issue found several times in xls or xlsx, to get it fix https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/637277-excel-converting-numbers-dates.html

Excel User tips, Format Cells, Non-functions, Worksheet

Cell formats 0.0\% and 0.0%;(0.0%)

Posted on April 7, 2019 By ANmar
Cell formats 0.0\% and 0.0%;(0.0%)

We needed a way to force Excel to show the % next to a number without dividing it by 100 You know, when you format a cell in Excel, to show %, it automatically divide that number by 100 But we do not want that to happen this time. So here is the trick, in…

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