Monday, January 17, 2005

SQL db to MS Access-How to

Go To SQL Enterprise Manager
>>> Select Server
>>>Open DB
>>>>Tools
>>> Export.. and it will guide you through from there.Don't remember, you probably have to disconnect as well.
Try disconnecting and then, don't forget to connect back. :)

Saturday, December 18, 2004

MS Excel:Quickly Navigate Multi-Sheet Workbooks

Right-click the the arrow buttons at the bottom left-hand side of the screen (the sheet tab navigation tool). You'll get a clickable menu of all the sheets in the workbook.

Friday, December 17, 2004

MS Excel:Search for an Asterisk, Question Mark, or Tilde

Since these characters have special meanings in Excel, you will need to precede them with a tilde to be able to search for them successfully.
So, to find an asterisk, Edit>Find, and then type ~* in the Find dialog box;
to find a tilde, type ~~;
to find a question mark, type ~?.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

MS Excel:Change Text Case

Excel provides three handy functions to change the case of text.
UPPER: converts all text to uppercase
LOWER: converts all text to lowercase
PROPER: converts text to The First Letter Of Each Word Is Capitalized.
If cell A1 contains the text: sameer lal, the following formula will produce Sameer Lal.
=PROPER(A1)
You may want to then select the cell or the range, Copy and then Edit>Paste Special (then choose Values) to change the contents of the cells from functions into the values produced by the functions.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

MS Excel: Formula Error and What It refers To

When you get an error in your formula cell, you’ll need to determine what caused the error and fix it.
Common Formula Errors You’ll See in EXCEL
What Appears in the Cell and What happened? :


#DIV/0!
Appears when the formula calls for division by a cell that either contains the value 0 or, as is more often the case, is empty. Division by zero is a no-no.

#NAME?
Appears when the formula refers to a range name that doesn't exist in the worksheet. This error value appears when you type the wrong range name or fail to enclose in quotation marks some text used in the formula, causing Excel to think that the text refers to a range name.

#NULL!
Appears most often when you insert a space (where you should have used a comma) to separate cell references used as arguments for functions.

#NUM!
Appears when Excel encounters a problem with a number in the formula, such as the wrong type of argument in an Excel function or a calculation that produces a number too large or too small to be represented in the worksheet.

#REF!
Appears when Excel encounters an invalid cell reference, such as when you delete a cell referred to in a formula or paste cells over the cells referred to in a formula.

#VALUE!
Appears when you use the wrong type of argument or operator in a function, or when you call for a mathematical operation that refers to cells that contain text entries.