Comments on: Copy Subtotals Only

By: M C Somers

M C Somers — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:04:06 +0000

Thanks Petal Painter – work great!

By: DC

DC — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:22:03 +0000

Finding this tip was nothing short of a life-changing experience. Wish I’d looked it up years ago. Would’ve saved me tons of time and aggravation. A million thanks!

By: alesia

alesia — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:16:00 +0000

This was a great tip; We have had to use a long work-around for quite some time.
This has saved many, many hours of labor.
Thank you so much!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:04:00 +0000

Best solution ever! Saved so much time. Thank you

By: Petal Painter

Petal Painter — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:04:00 +0000

Thank you all for the tips. I use this to make my subtotals bold all the time now.

I'm currently using Excel 2003 and would like to know if there's an easy way to show some of the information from the row above the subtotal as well.

For example, I'm working with purchase totals where some are single items and others are multiple items in the subtotal. It's actually the items on each receipt.

If I just collapse to the subtotals I lose all the information that identifies where the receipt is from, the date, the cardholder's name, etc. Only one column will have varying information and I could hide that column if necessary.

Here is an example:

I'd like to make this -

LOWES #01764*BRJOHN1.00 9/15$6.98
LOWES #01764*BRJOHN1.00 9/15$39.98
LOWES #01764*BRJOHN8.00 9/15$18.72
LOWES #01764*BRJOHN2.00 9/15$53.96
LOWES #01764*BRJOHN1.00 9/15$26.98
$146.62

become this -

LOWES #01764*BRJOHN1.00 9/15$146.62

The only way I know to do it is to copy and paste it onto the subtotal row for each receipt. I don't have time to do 1000's of those so I'm stuck printing out many pages that are unnecessary.

Anyone have any advice for me?

Thank you.

By: John Nawrocki

John Nawrocki — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:13:00 +0000

In Office 7 Hi-light cells, ALT/E,G,Click Special, Click Visible Cells only, click OK, make sure cells are still Hi-lighted and click Ctrl/C. The cells will be framed by some strange looking lines. Select your target and hit Ctrl/v.

By: Aleksander

Aleksander — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:42:00 +0000

OK.. Here is a much easier way to first select visible cells as in SUB totals or when copying only visible cells where rows and columns are hidden or similar. You just don’t want the ordinary cut and paste command that results in to much in the between after the paste

1. First filter out what you want to select by hiding rows, colums or filtering them down to a visible you want to copy.
2. Then select the visible you want to copy by dragging the desired area out with the mouse or use the keyboard shift/&CTRL – arrow select functions.
3. Now, hold down the ALT key an press semicolon (english/american keyboards). On my keyboard that is Norwegian I have to press ALT + Shift + semicolon. You will now see that the the black arounding disappears and the first upper left cell is white. Move you fingers away from the keyboard
4. Now you can use the CTRL + C command. And you will se the dancing ants just around the wanted selected cells. Great.
5. Now you can go to you preferred spot and paste the visible cells with CTRL + V

Thats it…

The shot version goes like this.

1. Select the area
2. ALT + semicolon or SHIFT + ALT + semicolon (depends on your keyboard language layout)
3. CTRL + C
4. CTRL + V

DONE

By: Mr. W

Mr. W — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:50:00 +0000

Best tip in a LONG while. Thanks a lot for this

By: Rower32

Rower32 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:06:00 +0000

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By: GoldFishy

GoldFishy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:46:00 +0000

Awesome, thank you so much!!!