Having done about all the Googling a boy can take, I am still unable to
find out how to do this, so I figured I would ask your goodselves.
I have a workbook with a number of pages. Each page represents the
formulation of a particular product. There is also a page that acts as

I need a function to calculate the age of a person starting on birthday.
Thank you
Luis Jorge

Am first time user of excel and would like to organize this project.  how do
i do this?

Apparently, Excel 2000 has a limit of 65,536 rows?
Can someone post maximum row limits for Excel XP and Excel 2003?

I am trying to produce a price list from a large Excel spreadsheet -
it comes down to roughly 10000 items on three columns - I'd do it in
Excel but want to get three columns to the page but don't want to
manually format each page (the previous version was in this format and

How do I set the default directory when using  the  file "OPEN" facility?
At the moment when I  use ,,File> open ,,, the default directory in the
"look in " box is "my documents",, I would like to change this deafult to
the excel folder within my documents.

There is a new page on the Burns Statistics website
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
that looks at spreadsheets from a quality assurance perspective.
It looks at several specific problems with Excel, including the

I'm stumped by something that seems simple. I have a column of data that is
added to each day. I want to take the last value in this column each day and
enter in a daily summary row.  My summary row contains sums and averages for
other columns, but I just need the last value in ...

how can I save a excel file to xml?
Thanks,
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I have a quick question regarding populating a list or combo box based on
certain criteria from another combo box. (if this is at all possible with
excel..hehe). What I am looking for is the following:
On one sheet I have a combo box. On the same sheet I would like to have

is there a method of clearing font scaling in charts by default (as opposed
to chart-by-chart basis)

Please assist
I want to show the % difference for the last dates entered.
item #         12/12/04       12/13/04      %Change
item1         100               110                    9.1%

I'm using Excel 2003 and am having a problem locking rows across
multiple sheets. For example, I have two separate sheets in the same
workbook to track client jobs. Sheet 1 contains job status by job while
sheet 2 contains additional related job information by month. Column

I have been using Lotus.  When you SAVE AS you are given the choice to make a
BAK (backup) file.  Is there a similiar command in Excel?  When I use SAVE AS
it just asks if I want to replace.  Thanks for any help.

Is there any way to call & place a graphic image based upon a cell value?