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Need some help with Flash Fill and 1 more Excel issue
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MITUL PARIKH
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     Hello  Friend;

    Good Morning;

    In 2  worksheets workbook  attached below,  on first  worksheet named ExcelFunctions.net  , seek help as to how to do flash fill of dates from Feb. 2015, 3 times , then, March 2015 - 3 times, then, April  2015 - 3 times , so on till   April 2018, and on 2nd worksheet named Venus  planet mantra record, subtracted cells D20 - D19 , received 0.09 as Duration , but, how can I  write word "Minutes" , and I  don't get  output which rec'd in cell D21
  

 Thank you very much.

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Mitul

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In respons to your second question.

It's a combination of underneath functions and settings.

You have to set your cell as number, whole number without decimals.

Then the formula in D21 is: =Round((D20-D19)*60*24,0)&" Minutes"

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Hello Mitul,

You're striving on, good to see. Let's see if I can answer your questions.

Q1) Flash fill works fine, if it senses there is a pattern of some sort. For your request though there is no such pattern. More about using auto fill and flash fill here.

Q2) You should really take some time and browse through the different blog articles that are available in this site, they are really good and descriptive. What you need to do in order to show the time duration as minutes with the text minutes in the end, is to use custom formatting. Read more about it in this blog article.

Good luck.

Br,
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   Good Morning

    Thank you very much, Anders

              I viewed  both AutoFill and Flash Fill Videos.

       You're saying that  for dates such as Jan 2015, Feb. 2015, Mar. 2015, up to Dec. 2015, then, Jan. 2016, Feb. 2016,  Mar. 2016 , up to  Dec. 2016 ,
       then,   Jan. 2017, Feb. 2017, Mar. 2017 , up to  Dec. 2017 , there is no such pattern.   AM I RIGHT ?

      Sincerely;

     Mitul.

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Hello Mitul,

It depends on how you type it in.

If you for example type the dates as Jan. -15, Feb. -15, Mar. -15 etc, then no, Excel will not detect a pattern.
If you type in Jan 2015, Feb 2015, Mar 2015, then yes, a pattern is detected and you can use autofill.

But yet again, if you have three Jan 2015 and three Feb 2015 and then use autofill, what you will see is that Excel believes you want to copy the existing data, you will get three Jan 2015 and three Feb 2015 again, not three Mar 2015 and three Apr 2015.

If you want to have flash fill in use, then you need a table with data, as shown in the example video I linked to previously. When you then create a new column in that table and Excel senses that what you are doing is basically just manually combining some information already existing in the table, then you will see that flash fill kicks in and gives you a suggestion for all remaining cells. Just press Enter key to accept such suggestion.

My tip is that you play around a little, experiment and you will soon learn what works and not.

Br,
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    Thank you,  Anders for your help.

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