Feed the pigs and don’t touch anything!

We’ll use a quote from a familiar joke as an introduction to a problem you might encounter in everyday work: how to get the user to enter data only in a predefined cell group? There are several ways to achieve this, and one of the easiest is to format these cells in the desired manner (eg, set a specific background color) and to prevent entry into the cells that are not formatted in a given manner.

Pieces of text

By implementing business software we usually retrieve Master data from the previously used application, primarily the Partners and Items. Data is usually exported from old software to Excel, it is processed, and imported into a new application. When processing, there is often a need to “cut” the text in one of the columns from the left, from the right or from the given position, or to find a part of it in order to use it to generate some new content …

Shortcuts for finding and replacing content

When working with large tables often are used shortcuts for search and replacement cell contents. Searching content is done by combining the CTRL + F (Find) key and replacing the content by using the CTRL + H (Replace) key combination. By launching any of these options, when choosing the Home toolbar or the specified shortcuts, the same dialog box opens with two tabs: Find and Replace. Depending on the desired action, select the card and then fill in the options of the dialog window.