Vista keeps converting my Excel documents to a Compatibility Mode...how does
one keep former documents and the command tool bar from doing this

I am trying to set a default selection in a List under Data Validation, so
when the worksheet is opened, a default value is there but the user can
change the value if necessary.  Is this possible and if it is, how can this
be done?

Help!  I have lots of old Lotus wk4 files which I USED to be able to access
through Excel.  Today, however, I'm blocked by the REGISTRY POLICY SETTINGS.
What are those?  How do I get past them to open my old Lotus files?
Thanks.

I have a couple of users that are constantly overwriting a workbook on the
network with a blank copy of the same name. They say when they do file open
and open the file they get a message that the file exists do they want to
replace and if they say yes it overwrites the good copy ...

How do I change the pasting options so that when I do not have to right click
and select paste special every time.  I just want to paste the values of
cells from one area to the next.

The ongoing saga of the exit/movement survey continues. My workmate that
collects the data from this intranet survey, that once completed is sent by
email via a submit button, would like the date the survey was sent to appear
on the completed survey.

I've always been able to copy and paste spreadsheet data so that a the cells
updated automatically, i.e., summarizing the data in column 1 would only look
in column 1 and when copied to column 2, the formula would automatically
adjust to copy the data in column 2.  

The problem that I describe below has occurred for the first time and I do
not seem to be able to solve it.
When I print a sheet, I keep getting print outs in which:
1. the indents in several cells do not reflect the indentation that I used

I have two spreadsheets.  The first one contains about 300 companies I am
finding data for and the second one contains the 300 companies plus a
thousand more companies.  I need to locate the 300 companies on the second
excel and copy the data into the cells on the first.  How do ...

I'm using Excel 2007 to keep track of attendance for classes held on
different days.  I'm would like to create a formula that SUMS up the number
of attendees for each day. Is there a function that would SUM values for each
day it encounters? (example: Sum up all the data for each ...

Excel 2003. drop down menu
how do i turn on the automatic feature that recognizes what i'm going to
type....type an "e" and everything starting with e drops below the menu box?

I have a spreadsheet which contains rows of client data. The clients at the
top of the sheet are the active clients, and are separated from those at the
bottom (non active) by a blank row.
Can anyone help me with a formula which will give the number of active

I set up a worksheet yesterday and the row numbers started with 1 (as
always).  However, I went back into the worksheet today and the first row
number is 4.  I did not hide any and cannot figure out were rows 1-3 went.
Any help is appreciated!

i have several pages of labels on word document, but i know some of them are
doubled, and i would like to alphabetize them so i can see where they are
doubled at....any idea on how to do that??

I want to sum up different cells around 40 in a single worksheet but they are
in different rows and columns and I can't select a range to add them up but
whenever I try to give different cell locations separating them by comma, it
stops after 30 cells.