How do i disable the office clipboard??

I work in the Resourcing Dept. i have to prepare a list of candidates that
were interviewed.
I have to consolidate lists from four offices. I have come across duplicate
candidates entries after consolidating the worksheets.

what is the order of operating and calculating  in this formula?
=A1/A2*A3^5-(A1+A2)
1- A1+A2
2- A1/A2

It's a mystery to me anyway... Here's my situation:
I have a file with multiple sheets... I selected 5 sheets in this file and
changed the row height to 16.5 ... Later, I checked the height of the row
by moving the cursor to one of the row indicators and clicking when the

I have a table in a html file and i want to import it to excel.
After the import, the values like 04.02 or 11.04 or else... are
transformed in 04.feb, 11.apr. I don't want that. What is the
solution?

Does anyone know a way that you can save to XML in Excel 2000?
Or any software which would allow this to happen?

I am currently updating an excel worksheet created earlier on by
someone else, How can I ensure EXCEL checks for any previous occurence
of the rows similar to my new updates so  I do not populate the
worksheet with redundant repetitions ?

I have an issue where a user I provide support for is being told that a
file that has not been opened for a couple of months is reporting as
being locked for editing by the last user to save the file (in some
cases these users no longer exist on our network). When you check the

Is there anyway to mask a password as it is typed into the cell. Example is
I type 5555 into cell A1 but to the viewing eye they only see ****. Is this
possible. If so can I set up about 4 password that are validated after entry
into cell A1. To allow or Dismiss.

Hi all expert
My excel row header (the numbering bar) is hided, how to unhide it??
Tried the Row & Column header option in the tools menu but not help.
Please advice

I am using the Advanced Filter to filter out records of companies that
have not supplied a business number in that field (column). To my
astonishment, it isn't filtering them out! Furthermore, on
investigation, using "Edit, Go To..., Special, Blanks", these empty

The cell A1 contains:
Here's the shopping list: pig, dog, hamburger, chocolate..., beef. Please
purchase all of them. Thanks!
I would like to extract each item separately to different cells, ie

A1:
=I am the <b>best!</b> (<b>...</b> means bold letters)
A2:
=A1

How can I do the following:
- crop text from the left
eg: CropText(A1, Crop3WordFromLeft)
- crop text from the middle

How to do the following:
1) Return the cell reference of the cell
eg:
Type this formula in cell A1: