I recently installed MS Office 2003 Standard and have only one strange
problem:  When I click Tools, Options, then the question mark (?) in
the upper right corner, a window opens that tells me that Office is
installing and configuring a new file(s).  For the remainder of the

I have the following pivot table and I have drawn a contour map from it:
Sum of Icorr    X               
Y        0        0.3        0.6        0.9        Grand Total
0        0.321223837    0.664355873    0.384612423    13.29766626    14.66785839

Hiya Could someone explain what a macro is?? and how i would do one?? (any
example will do!)
Thanks
P.s.I can't access certain sites on the internet so please do not provide a

I want to turn off the awful copy and  paste functionality that removes what
I have copied inside Excel whenever I press a key, or do any non-paste
related activity.  Its making life difficult because it keeps assuming ive
finished with blocks I have in memory.

My friend needs help in using Excel 2000.
It is unfortunate that he does not know about news groups.  And I am sorry
to tell you that I do not use the Excel program.
I hope that my question will make sense enough to get an answer.

Cannot find help file

I would like to make a grid for plotting co-ordinates.  I simply need
both x and y axis to be numbers
example  1 2 3
2

I have a table from which I need to find specific values based on the rows
they reside in.
I need to search the (n)th row to return the column number where a specific
number (x) is located.

I'm trying to do a match to find a number equal or larger than
an input value.  Since the values in the table are ascending I
need to reverse them to use a -1 Match type.
I've got a half dozen tricks that work.  What I would like to

Hello Group,
I'm looking for some help with a nested IF worksheet function. Shown
below is a formula that I'm using in a model.
=SUM(IF(worksheet!$A$3:$A$54=DATEVALUE("9/1/2005"),IF(worksheet!$B$3:$B$54="<90",worksheet!$C$3:$C$54,0),0))

Normally Inputbox has one editbox, how can have more editbox in one inputbox
?
Please help by giving example.
Regards,

Hi again. This is my last question. :)
Are there in Excel sheet tab properties so that i can choose font, text
color or something else not just tab colour? And can i have those sheet
tabs in two or more rows? because my workbook has a lot of

office 2003 excel
How can I merge two rows into one row? Also... where is that in help? I
spent about 45 minutes trying to find it.
Thanks

How do I check the subtring of a string ? I don't think I can use Strcomp.
Let say I have string "Hello world"
The Substring that I want to find is "orl"
What function can I use?

    Hello to all -
    I am a complete novice at Excel and all my knowledge comes
from reading a book and trying it.
    I am trying to work with what I thought was a simple