It's easy to write in, with *single asterisks* for italics or - dashes for bullet points. Write in HTML, and it's all too easy to forget a closing tag or some other tiny character. Write in Word or Google Docs' rich formatting and copy it over to your blog, and you'll likely lose some formatting in the process. You can also set original and new timezones as a quick way to switch those Pacific times from PayPal to Eastern if you'd like, too. Zapier will typically guess the original date and time format you're converting from, but you can set that as well if you need. Check Zapier's Date/Time documentation for all the custom date and time formatting you can use. Want 01/Jan/2017? Type YY/MMM/YYYY instead. Just want the day of the week? Type dddd in the field. Or, select Use a Custom Value and type in the date and time format you want. Zapier includes a number of default date/time styles such as Januor 01-22-2017 that you can choose from.
Add the date that needs to be changed to the Input field, then select the date style you want in the To Format field. This time, add a Date/Time action from the Formatter App to your Zap, and select Format as the Transform. Zapier's Date/Time Format tool in Formatter can help. And when you're trying to schedule appointments with your customers, your US-based calendar app might have trouble figuring out what date your customer means when they type in international format. PayPal says your customer bought your product at 00:00:00 Jan 01, 205 PDT, but you'd rather know that they bought your product on Thursday, Jan 1st. It's like spell-check for your style guide.įor a handy way to test it out, try this Zap that will make sure your RSS feed post titles are lowercase and include some intro text like "New post:" before sharing them on Twitter, so they don't look automated: Zapier will then automatically check your text capitalization, fix anything that's off, and then send the formatted text to your other action apps. Add a Formatter Text action to your Zap, then select the Capitalize, Lowercase, Titlecase, or Uppercase transforms to format your text the way you want. Perhaps you just want to automatically share blog posts to Twitter and Facebook, but want to make your post title look like a real Tweet instead of a standard capitalized title.įormatter's got your back.
Only later do you notice that your entire title is in all caps-apparently you hit Caps Lock instead of Shift. You're rushing to write a blog post, and everything looks great at a quick glance, so you hit Publish. Zapier can automatically capitalize your text
#SHORTEN AN UNDERLINE IN EXCEL HOW TO#
Here are some of the most popular ways to reformat text-with tutorials on how to do each in Zapier as well as in spreadsheets and other apps on your computer.Įxtract email addresses, website links, and numbers from text You could reformat the text on your computer, or you could speed things up with Zapier's Formatter tool that can automatically format your text the way you want. The better option is to get your apps to do the work for you. You could manually edit everything, splitting first and last names by hand or typing in each date line by line-but that'd take forever. Turns out, the text is in the wrong format or order, names are together when they should be split into first and last, dates and phone numbers are formatted incorrectly, and so on.īack to the drawing board. You export data out of one app, try to import it into another-and it looks perfect, right until it doesn't. That's the feeling more often than not when trying to get apps to work together. Option 3 - even simpler but uses a udf.So near, and yet so far. You won't see anything in C1 but you can confirm with Len(C1) that it's there.
#SHORTEN AN UNDERLINE IN EXCEL CODE#
Option 2 - quicker, write in the cell "H e n r y " (notice the space after the y) in B1, and in C1 Insert->Symbol code 332 Option 1 - write in B1 the letter H, then Insert->Symbol code 332, then the letter e, then Insert->Symbol code 332, etc. If you want to try it, for "Hello Henry", there are several possibilities. The result depends on the implementation of the font, but I get a good result with Arial Unicode MS The first one just underlines the letter, the second one makes the underline a bit bigger so that if you have several contiguous letters it seems like they have a line below (hence the name).
Combining Low Line, code hex 332 (I will refer to it as CLL)
These are 2 codes in the Combining Diacritical Marks to kind of underline: Unicode gives you codes in the Combining Diacritical Marks group to kind of underline: If you need a solution without vba, or, at least, not active (without events) there are other solutions, if you don't mind the result not being so perfect, just using the Unicode features. Rick's solution is the one that will get you the best result in terms of quality and using the original strings, but.
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