Comments on: problems with the default area of and excel worksheet

By: andypaul

andypaul — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:50:47 +0000

When you delete the rows… are you Deleting the Entire Row, or just the moving the cells up? If you move them up… it still keeps the signature of the entire former dataset. If you Delete Rows, then the Ctrl-End should work.

However, if it does not, you could try to just use END and a the Down Arrow key… it will take to you the last cell with data before a blank. You could then END and Right Arrow to go to the “end point” … then Shift-Ctrl-Home to select the entire set.

Hope this helps.

By: woollysox

woollysox — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:48:13 +0000

Thanks Andymadge, that was useful. The Ctrl & Down arrow will certainly be of use. The more you know, the more you realise you dont know!
Cheers
John Woolliscroft

By: boecherer

boecherer — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:23:46 +0000

Copy the remaining 150 rows and paste them to a new spreadsheet. The CTRL-END should work now since there aren’t any remnants left from the deletion. You can save the sheet as the same name as the old one, but be sure to close the prior sheet or else it will be open and you won’t be able to save to the same name.

Another trick that might work is that after pressing CTRL-END, press END UP (not at the same time) and then you might end up at the last row of the sheet.

By: andymadge

andymadge — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:51:03 +0000

The reason for this is that Excel still classes the cells down to M300 as being part of the spreadsheet because it is still storing formatting info for those cells.

Once you close the file and open it again you should find that CTRL & END takes you to the correct place. If not, it definitely will if you save the file with a different name.

Another option is to use CTRL & DOWN ARROW, then CTRL & RIGHT ARROW. This will work in your situation without saving the file. (Obviously if you’re making a selection, you’ll also need to hold down the SHIFT key)

One more thing you may find useful – look into using Lists (Data/List/Create List…) and basing your pivot tables on the list – it will grow/shrink with the data

By: woollysox

woollysox — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:25:41 +0000

I am sorry to say that option doesn’t work either. I was wondering if a defalt sheet area could be setup using Insert/Define/Name to select the area – but I cannot see anything as a default.