I know Excel has a function for counting letter/characters in a cell,
but I don't want it to count spaces.  Any way to accomplish this?
And forgive me if topic exists somewhere on this forum.  I wanted to do
a search first, but clicking on "search" does nothing.

data that i have is
a  b     c                  d
   jh address telephone number
   ar address telephone number

I'm trying to conditonal formatting cells to highlight yellow when the  cell
is the max number. My problem is when trying to formatt the cells for example:
cell G307 thru G327 and then skip a few cells then cells G330 thru G360 it
does not work

i think this is probally the easiest thing in the world to do but i dont know
how.  i want to transfer excel files from one computer to another via cd.  
how do i do that?  i put the cd in the source computer and thats as far as i
get.  where do i go from there?

How can i define the condition so that a user can enter the data in
only the following format:
AAAAA1111A, where "A" Represents any character & "1" represents any
number.

We have a sales spreadsheet that shows confirmed and projected sales.  The
projected income from various items is shown in red in our spreadsheet, while
confirmed sales are in black.
My question is, can we create a formula at the bottom that automatically

Excel 2003, I have a protected work sheet, and I forgot my pass word to
unprotect it, could it be pulled up somehow? is it hidden somewhere in the
system? help!

I need to prepare a report on a periodical basis of inventory on hand
Qty, value & age ( 0-30,31-60, 61-90 days etc.) In the database I will
have few cost components of each purchase  ( FOB, Duty, Freight etc.)
by style #. Second table will be Sales(Date, Inv #, Cust, Style, Qty,

When ever i start excel 2003 and type numbers they come up as text so i can
not use any functions, i have tried formatting the cells to numbers but this
does not work, i have even re-installed office with no luck, can any body
help me

I am trying to insert a macro based on a "If" formula that will highlight a
specific cell or range of cells in a worksheet to a particular color. For
example, if todays date is 30 days or less from a target date, then I want a
name on a particular sheet to turn red to let me know ...

How do I add totals up from different sheets? A running total of all the
totals on each worksheet?
thanks.

I've set up a number of worksheets that collate data from a number of
sources. For readability, we use background colours to code the information
entered in the cells. This information is extracted to a number of summary
report sheets. However, I can't find a way of getting the ...

i would like to see if i would be able to use more than three conditional
format because i will be looking to use 10 is there any way other than using  
a vba script???
thank you

I want to write formula that adds amounts in a range ofcells and if < a
number, enter sum, but if => than number, only add difference between sum and
number?  I believe it to be an sumif function but can't seem to layout
formula.

I have created a pivot table which includes a column showing times.  The data
list has the column formatted as hh:mm, but the same information in the pivot
table comes out in hh:mm:ss format.  I re-format it, but everytime I refresh
data it reverts back to the hh:mm:ss format.  ...