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Creating a Want List: Creating a Want List

You can use "Set Description" field for not just coins you have but for even coins you don't have. This is accomplished by simply adding the coins you are looking for to the inventory sheet and in the...

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Linking Photos: Linking Photos

I received some e-mails asking how to add pictures to the file. The easiest way is by creating a link to the photo. I've attached a PDF file that provides instructions on how to do this. ;)

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Another Way to Add Photo's: Another Way to Add Photo's

Someone turned me on to a very simple solution that allows you display photos that are linked to cells by using the comments feature within excel. In order to make this work effectively you'll need to...

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Copying tables from a website: Copying tables from a website

I'm primarily a Firefox kinda guy but here is one where Microsoft Explorer 7.0 (or 6.0) has an edge. How many have seen a table on a website and attempt to copy & paste into excel? Many folks will...

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Another Way to Add Photo's: Re: Another Way to Add Photo's

This little tidbit is the most useful information I've received in 3 years. I had been hyperlinking photos to cells, but this way is a) faster and b) more efficient!! Thank you PS: I am changing every...

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Another Way to Add Photo's: Re: Another Way to Add Photo's

Careful…the excel file may get big quick. But considering how powerful computers are today (lots of ram, processing power and huge hard drives) it may not be an issue.

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Problem with Coin Inventory template...

Lately when opening the Coin Inventory template 2.0 and after the links to the bullion prices update, it is putting the Platinum price in the Gold cell, the Palladium price in the Silver cell, and the...

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

Thanks Chuck, My computer with excel is down right now. But my laptop has openoffice and everything looked fine. You may have simply modified a cell by accident as those fields are not protected....

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

Ken, Thanks for your quick reply. I need to clarify: I have both OpenOffice (Version 3.2.1) and Microsoft Office (Version 2003) on my computer. I was having the problem with both of them. I downloaded...

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

They do both mean the same thing. I have discovered that Open Office does have some quirks with list lookups and after your experience it seems to not convert Excel files that have web lookups as well...

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

Not a problem on finding the issue. Glad to help!! Yeah, OpenOffice is great software, but every now and then you run into something that it just does differently or won't do like M$ Office will. But...

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

Ken: I downloaded the U.S. Coin Inventory Version 2.0 OpenOffice Template. What I get is a .zip file with several directories in it, along with several .xml files, and a few other types of files. I...

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

Wow, that is the weirdest thing. If you download using Firefox as a browser there are no problems and same with Google Chrome, but if you are using MS Explorer it downloads a zip with useless files....

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

One more follow up…. I'm thrilled you enjoy the site and became a member. This originally started out as a place for me to share stuff and over the years it has grown into a true wiki resource. We...

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Problem with Coin Inventory template...: Re: Problem with Coin Inventory...

Thanks again, Ken. I do have Google Chrome installed but mainly use IE. I like Chrome, except that it doesn't have a print preview like IE does.. As soon as they add that feature I may have to make...

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Spreadsheet Improvement: Spreadsheet Improvement

The Series column has a fixed width for each coin tab. If you move the Notes column to the end, then the Notes tab could be expanded to fit the remaining desktop screen by each user.

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Spreadsheet Improvement: Re: Spreadsheet Improvement

Thank you Bassam for the tip

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error with the checklist xls: error with the checklist xls

this checklist don´t open with the program EXCEL but with WORD, then we can´t open

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error with the checklist xls: Re: error with the checklist xls

All the excel file are in older version (pre office 2010)

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