How to Round Numbers in Excel

Chandoo posted a thorough article on tips to rounding numbers using Excel.

Outlook: Week Numbers Lost and Setting Disabled for Good (Unable to Change)

 

I'm a big fan of week numbers. I've always had the week number visible as it's how things often are scheduled.

The pics at the right demonstrate how Outlook shows the week numbers when they are set visible.

However, a while ago the week numbers mystically went missing. Instead of the week number the month view showed date range (pic at the right) - which is useless for me, at least.

I jumped to Outlook'sOptions -> Calendar, as I know that's where the checkbox is. For my surprise the setting "Show week numbers in the month view and in the Date Navigator" was unchecked and the the setting was completely disabled - I couldn't change it.

As an end user, I didn't have much options to dig into this (from server rule-perspective for example) but with some help and try-error method found out that removing and adding my account again solved the issue. The setting is now checked (week numbers visible) but the box is disabled - i.e. can't be modified.

Why were the week numbers lost? I'm not sure, but I think the updates I installed a few days earlier - or some corporate server rules - are to blame.

Have you experienced the same issue, and/or any idea on the root-cause?

Also, I'm curious on what is the reasoning to completely disable the user to change a purely visual setting as the week number? :) Shouldn't at least have anything to do with security.

Improving Excel 2010 Performance

Since Excel 2007 we've had the "Big Grid" available - meaning over 1000 times the amount of cells than in older Excel versions.

This brings challenges in keeping the performance good while amount of data and formulas increase.

Read Microsoft's article Excel 2010 Performance: Improving Calculation Performance to get a better understanding of the calculation logic and how to improve you workbooks performance.

Office Next: The New Office Web Apps

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Get Help With Excel From an Expert

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Excel Shortcut: Open VBA Editor's Immediate Window

Ah the number of time's you've hoped that the VBA Editor's Immediate window could be attached to Excel's own window. That's not going to happen soon I think, so here's a tip how to quickly open and activate the Immediate window with some shortcut keys:

Alt + F11 Ctrl + G

Alt + F11 opens VBA Editor and Ctrl + G activates the Immediate window. Convenient way to help your spreadsheet editing especially with short single-line macros.

VBA: Break All External Links in a Workbook

Here's a tip how to break all external links from a workbook:



Sub BreakAllLinks()


    Dim arrStrLinks As Variant
    
    ' Read workbook links to an array.
    arrStrLinks = ActiveWorkbook.LinkSources(Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks)
    
    ' Loop through whole array -> all links.
    For i = 1 To UBound(arrStrLinks)
        ActiveWorkbook.BreakLink _
        Name:=arrStrLinks(i), _
        Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks
    Next i


End Sub


This is actually a slightly modified version of the one you can find from Excel's help with keyword BreakLinks.