Shorten contents of spreadsheet cells
Posted: 2020-08-05 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: Cell values, function, gnumeric, left, shorten, spreadsheet Leave a commentI have a spreadsheet file with a list of species’ Latin names. I want to automatically create abbreviations for each species, by shortening both the genus and specific epithet to a certain number of characters. Here’s how to do it.
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Row to column in Gnumeric
Posted: 2016-08-30 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: Cell values, column, gnumeric, row, spreadsheet, transpose 1 CommentI have some spreadsheet data which I want to present in columns, instead of the rows that I initially entered. I searched a bit and found instructions for Excel here. The principle is the same, so here’s what I did for Gnumeric. Read the rest of this entry »
Cell values as rows in a spreadsheet
Posted: 2014-04-17 Filed under: academic | Tags: Cell values, gnumeric, sort, spreadsheet Leave a commentI have some spreadsheet data where the first column lists the position of a certain amino acid within a protein. There are many amino acid sites that are skipped, therefore the rows do not follow the actual, uninterrupted, amino acid sequence. Read the rest of this entry »
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