Excel Help for Non-Profit Needed - Lions Club Project

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I am Radio Auction Chairman in the Rayne Lions Club in Louisiana and I
am working with Excel to enter all the items for our Live Radio
Auction.

I have entered all auction items in Excel and now I want to copy &
paste
the information into a word document. When I copy & insert the column,
it also paste the cells. I need just the information for the
newspapers.

Can I just copy & paste just into information into a word file
without the cells?


Also, if I have listed the items from top to bottom in a column, is
there any way to flip the info fron top-bottom to left-right
across the top.

I know Excel is a powerful program and I work with it on a limited
basis.

Thanks for any and all help.
Tony
 
Dear Tony,

Ans1 In word you can use the
Table>Convert>Table to Text to get rid of the cells. This can be used
only if you are pasting only one single column. If you r pasting more
columns & then try this you will loose the formatting regarding the
space between columns.

Ans2 Fliping the information in column.
It seems that you want to transpose & not Flip the contents.
For this you have to copy the cells & then paste special the cells
using right click>paste special. Check the box with "Transpose Lable".
<note: Please note Excel have only 256 columns>

Hope this helps

Regards
NC
 
Hi Tony

Greetings from sunny Zimbabwe!

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "also paste the cells"

However try the following:
1. create a new blank sheet in your workbook
2. select the information you wish to copy from the 'old' sheet
3. press Ctl-C
4. go to A1 in the 'new' sheet
5. right-click and choose Paste Special then choose Values

You should be able to copy and paste from the 'new' sheet to word.

As to the second request for flipping the info fron top-bottom to
left-right, have a look at the Transpose option of Paste Special.

HTH
Alan
 
Tony,

To paste it without the cells in Word, Copy it in Excel and then Paste
Special-Unformatted text into Word. (Shortcut: Alt, then e (for edit),
then s (for paste special), then u (for Unformatted text), then Enter).

To transpose your text in Excel (top-bottom to left-right), you can
either use the paste-special transpose or the Transpose function. To
do Paste Special Transpose type Alt-e-s-e (in that order) and then
Enter. The disadvantage to this is that it will not dynamically
update.

Let's say your range was from A1:B6 and you wanted to transpose it and
have it dynamically update in cells D1:I2. You would select the range
D1:I2 and then write =Tranpose($A$1:$B$6) and then hit
control-shift-enter (all at once).

Best of luck - Ariel
 
Select the information to be copied in Excel and select Edit/Copy.

Open Word and select Edit/Paste Special and select Text

To do the top bottom / left right flip, you'll want to past first into
Excel, using the Paste Special function and select the transpose
checkbox.
 
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