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Calculate overlapping hours
Hello, I need to report how many hours a staff member supervised one or more volunteers. For a very simplified example, Volunteer Name Date Start Time End Time Supervisor Fred 1/1/26 1:00pm 3:00pm Lucy Ethel 1/1/26 2:30pm 4:30pm Lucy Here 4 volunteer hours were served, but because there was a 30 minute overlap, Lucy only supervised for 3.5 hours. Is there a way to get Excel to calculate that? To say: look at all the entries with matching date and matching supervisor, and add up non-overlapping time. I'm not expecting this to be possible, but I thought I'd ask. Thanks!Markdown and OneNote
2025 and still no markdown support in OneNote(touch supported version). This is Post ChatGPT era and all the LLMs generate text in markdown format. And I am pretty sure, a lot of people out there nowadays generate quick and concise notes through LLMs. But no, OneNote does not wanna render markdown. However, keeping source formatting can format text somewhere close to LLMs output. But not perfectly. The code snippets and tables does not render and appear as a mess. In simple words, I cannot copy LLM output for "Give me code examples of Rust's thread::spawn() function" directly into OneNote because it will be just appear gibberish. NOTE: There are two types of copying. 1) Select text and copy 2) Dedicated copy button in LLM output. So when I say copy I mean *2 as it preserves the markdown syntax.Logical test for same text string existing anywhere in both ranges.
Hello. I have a Table of film credits, including the names of directors and writers. Some films have multiple directors (up to 3 individuals), whose names are in columns F, G and H. The writers' names (up to 4 individuals) are in columns J, K, L and M. I want to test for whether the film has a writer/director - e.g, one of the director names in the range F:H is the same as one of the writer names in the range J:M. I have created a column O to contain a formula with a logical test returning Y if there is a writer/director present. I tried =IF(Table4[@[Wri1]:[Wri4]]=[@Dir1]:[Dir3],Y,N) but this returns a spill error. Can anyone help?Name Manager using for create name which is contain atleast two name.
Hello. I creating somthing in excel with tables. These tables has thier own name, and can be dynamic or not. Any way. I using list in cell to select each data from a tables column. For that I created names with the content of a column. Unfortunatly i had to make a kind of name which is contain atleast 2 columns. These can grow dynamicly. So I think a plus helper tabel is not the right sollution for that. I think about 3 kind of solution. 1. =UNIQUE( VSTACK( INDEX(Tabla1[#Data];0;MATCH("Type_name";Tabla1[#Headers];0)); INDEX(Tabla2[#Data];0;MATCH("Column_name";Tabla2[#Headers];0)) ) output #name? 2. =UNIQUE(VSTACK(Lista_A; Lista_B)) lista_A as a name output #name? 3. created a helper table with the existing names. Created another name and use the table in it. output was the elements contained by the helper tabel, and the lista_A and lista_B tables each dedicated column. So How can i create list for a cell or cells from two column which are dynamicly growing, without a user needs to touch the core modell? Best BalázsViva Engage - Photos Not Loading in Conversations
Good morning. I have cleared my cache and also tried a new browser (from Chrome to Edge) and photos that were loaded in a Conversations post yesterday are not loading today - just large gray boxes were the images were. What else can I do to fix this?What's going on with office.com / web apps?
I'm aware that Microsoft had already chosen to upend usability once by changing office.com into 😡m365.cloud.microsoft😡 and make accessing web apps more difficult. This week I found they're hidding applications even further by burying them at the bottom of the page behind another menu - even when "pinned". Below are two screenshots of the 😡m365.cloud.microsoft😡 portal from different accounts that were created on the same day and accessed from the same computer and web browser via admin priveledges. I have observed this discrepency more than once with various accounts. Can someone explain the rational for Microsoft continuing to further bury office applications from users? Am I unaware of a new portal to access the Office applications our users rely upon every day?move spaces to a given column via worksheet command
i am 81 yoa and my lady is sickly. Among other things she has type 1 diabetes and heart problems. I am building a worksheet containing foods and their calories and carbs. i want to blank out input a column when she has completed her food menu and is done inputting. How can I do that? I also want to protect all columns in the worksheet except the one for her input. I am using Microsoft Professional + 2013 Office on a pc via wireless in Windows 11. can anyone help me? I would be happy to attach a copy of the worksheet but i don't see how! Thanks in advance!Excel toolbar format
Hello everyone, I personalized my toolbar with the shortcuts I use the most but the format of the icons varies quite a lot as shown on the picture above. Some icons are small and others are big. Is there any way to choose which ones are small and which ones are big? Or maybe make them all the same (small or big). Version is Microsoft Professional 2021 Thank you for your timeSharePoint Online Expands Version Expiration for Audio and Video Files
Microsoft is launching version expiration policies in SharePoint Online for audio and video files. The approach is the same as used for intelligent versioning of Office files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business and can be configured at the tenant, site, and document library level. If your tenant uses Clipchamp, this could be a way to save expensive SharePoint storage. https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/17/version-expiration-policy/How can I display negative values for time in calculation results
I'm trying to create an Excel spreadsheet with a column that shows the time relative to a predetermined point in time in 15-minute intervals with negative values for time in the cells above 0:00 and positive values below. I have the correct formulas entered in, but I can't seem to figure out how to get Excel to display negative values for time. Is there a way to do this?Group policy for Outlook 2016 to set default font
hi, We have a client where multiple users have changes their font within Outlook and we're wanting to keep it set to default for all users, Calibri (Body) font size 11. Looking to set Group policy across the site to get default font for all users. I have installed Outlook 2016 ADM files but there's no option for font within settings, there is for excel but not Outlook. Any idea's how I'd accomplish this? Thanks, StevenHas Your Organization Set Up a Viva Engage Community for Microsoft 365 Collaboration?
Hi everyone! As a trainer, I often get great questions during my Microsoft 365 sessions. While I share answers live, only the attendees benefit—leaving many others without that valuable info. I’ve already set up a Microsoft Learning Pathways SharePoint site as a resource, but I’m exploring ways to extend knowledge-sharing beyond the classroom.Has anyone created or participated in a Viva Engage community to share tips, answer questions, and collaborate around daily Microsoft 365 tools? I’d love to hear about your experiences, best practices, or ideas on how to maximize impact and reach across your organizations. Thanks in advance for sharing! Let’s empower everyone to get more from Microsoft 365.😃Initializing TextBoxes within a UserForm
My spreadsheet contains a macro which utilizes two UserForms, each containing several TextBoxes. I want to initialize several TextBoxes in each Userform. One UserForm works and the other one does not, even though I have set the code up identically in each one. Here is what I have detected: When you step through the macro code (F8), when the first UserForm.Show statement is executed, the control skips to the first line of code for the UserForm and when the second UserForm.Show is executed, the control skips to the first TextBox on the Object. Here is a sample of the code I am using: Private Sub UserForm1() TextBox1.Value = "ABCDE" End Sub I have been writing macros like this for over 30 years, but this is the first time I have run into this situation. Any help here will be greatly appreciated. Al
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