Spreadsheet cells’ contents length
Posted: 2021-11-07 Filed under: office | Tags: gnumeric, spreadsheet Leave a commentI need to compare a list of UniProt identifiers to a database of protein-protein interactions. All IDs in my list are 6 characters in length, while the database I am comparing to has many entries that are longer. I want to clean these up, since nothing from my list will match to them and I also want to speed searches by making the database smaller.
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Average every n number of rows in a spreadsheet
Posted: 2021-02-27 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: gnumeric, spreadsheet Leave a commentI have a long column of data that I want to make into a chart. The problem is that the column has over 50000 rows and processing it gets problematic. I looked for a way to average every Nth number of rows, in order to speed up things.
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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 »
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