2009/10/3 Brian Barker <[email protected]>:
> At 13:22 02/10/2009 -0600, Walter Hildebrandt wrote:
>>
>> Column A in the spreadsheet is column LC.  Column B in the spreadsheet is
>> column LE.  Column C in the spreadsheet is LF.
>>
>> The following formula was put into cell LF1
>> =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(LC1;$LE$1:$LE$12;1;0));"";VLOOKUP(LC1;$LE$1:$LE$12;1;0))
>>
>> The same word was in cells LC1 and LE1 and that word appeared in cell LF1
>>
>> I clicked on cell LF1 to select (highlight) that cell and pressed Ctrl+LF
>
> Er, not quite right!  You were recommended to use Ctrl+C - which is the
> keyboard shortcut for copying the currently selected cell.  You could then
> use Ctrl+V, as suggested, to paste (modified) copies into other cells in
> your results column.  The "C" here is for "copy", of course - nothing to do
> with the results column in the example being column C.  You seem to have
> thought that since your actual results column is LF, you should modify this
> keystroke to "Ctrl+LF".  Er, no.

I was actually thinking ”what does he mean by ”Ctrl+LF”. One thought
was that LF=LineFeed, but I was still confused, of course. I should
have realized that my suggestion was misunderstood, but for some
reason I didn't.

>
>> The Find & Replace dialog box appeared.
>
> Well, it would.  Ctrl+L,F is Ctrl+L followed by Ctrl+F.  First, Ctrl+L
> aligns left (but that is the default for text, so you probably didn't see
> anything happen), and then Ctrl+F is indeed the shortcut for Find & Replace.
>
>> Various entries were made in the dialog box but none of them worked.  What
>> is being done wrong?
>
> That wasn't part of the suggested technique.
>
> Brian Barker

Thanks Brian, for clarifying. Hopefully this will solve Walter's
problems with my suggestion.

J.R.

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