How to Find more than one string with Microsoft Office Excel with the graphical interface?
For example, I am looking for the cells which is contained both strings Paul and John?
I'm trying to add a linked server to an Excel 2010 file from SQL Server 2012. Every reference I've found online for doing this is using older versions of SQL Server, and the driver that they tell you to use 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', is not present in 2012 from what I can tell.
Can anyone tell me which provider I need to use and what the product name, data source, and provider string should be?
For reference, this is the screen I'm looking at:
Thanks.
I have a database/spreadsheet of information that I need to make a very detailed report from. My knowledge on Access is quite limited so I started doing a mock up of the Report layout in Excel and made this:
So from there, I need the information from the data base to be placed in the properly labeled cells. There are over 2500+ entries in the spreadsheet/database, so if creating a report that looks pretty spot on to the one above in access is doable, that might be an easier route.
I love using the formatting styles for tables in Excel 2007, but in my data I'm using the same column name for multiple columns. When I format my table using the pre-defined styles, it automatically adds an incremental number to each subsequent column name which I don't want. Is there any way to stop this from happening? If I attempt to manually rename the column back to the original name, it automatically appends the incremented number.
Hi, when I try to save a long list in excel as a CSV comma delimited it works for the first 17 rows an then stops. does anyone know why and how I can fix it ?
I'm not sure if this is possible, or if I'll have to do it manually, but I have lots of cells in the following format:
=87.12+56.52-16.50+98.21-9.51
If possible, I'd like to break it up into columns, like so:
I have a data in excel in the format:
87.12 | 56.52 | -16.50 | 98.21 | -9.51
I've tried text to columns based on the '+' symbol, but it falls short when I then try to break it down by the '-' symbol, it moves into columns as appropriate, it removes the minus from the start of the figure
Any suggestions would be very welcome! Thank you
It's really annoying that Excel (2003 and 2007) doesn't show what cell, row
or column that is selected when the window is not in focus. I typically want to
refer to the current cell or row while working in another application.
Is there any workaround or fix that will make the cell/row highlighted when not in focus?
I know that you can copy a cell (Ctrl+C) but it's kind of tiresome to do that every time.
i have an excel workbook with this structure
myexcelworkbook.xlxs
course sheet with date and venue
participants sheet with names and addresses
how can i add date, venue, names and addresses from these two sheets of same workbook into word document via mail merge
i tried but it uses only one sheet at a time.
thanks
I have an Excel 2007 file with macros and VB (.xlsm) and one of the worksheets has charts. When I open the file those charts are shown. However when I CTRL+Scroll to zoom in the charts vanish. I need to be able to see the charts so I can move/resize them.
Any help is appreciated.
Running XP Pro with latest SP
Over 3 GB memory
Office 2007 Pro
I'm new to Excel-post-2000, and I'd like to learn more about how to use tables (formerly lists) and structured references.
Can anyone point me to some good treatments of this topic that go beyond the help?
(For example, there are numerous full books about just pivot tables. Something like that for using table would be ideal.)
Excel - pivot values in one cell (as comma-separated value)
I have two columns of data:
Supplier1|Product1
Supplier1|Product2
Supplier1|Product4
Supplier1|Product7
Supplier2|Product3
Supplier2|Product5
I want to 'pivot' around Supplier, and give the list of products in one single cell, comma-separated e.g.
Supplier1|Product1,Product2,Product4,Product7
Supplier2|Product3,Product5
There's about 1000 suppliers, and 0 < products <= 10.
My current workaround involves using pivot tables, saving as CSV etc and is very messy. A non-VBA solution would be amazing.
I would like to know if anyone can help me do a macro to open a list of hyper links.
I have a list of about 600 hyper links all in a column in separate rows, i have to open each one to see if the link works, yet it is boring and tedious as i have to wait sometimes for excelto catch up i would much rather leave it doing 100 at a time while i do other things
I'm trying toexport a table with IMAGE data type fields in SQL Server 2005 to a table with BLOB data type fields in Oracle 11g. What is the recommended way to perform this operation, assuming we have more than a thousand records toexport at once?
When cutting/copying some cells to paste them into another sheet/page, sometimes Excel freezes/locks up and fades out. At the top toolbar it says in brackets "not responding".
Eventually, I must click 'X' to close the program. It offers to wait for the program to respond, but never does – it just does nothing until I finally close it, where it offers to recover files etc.
Is there an issue with memory here? What can I do to stop it locking up?
I have a column containing file paths. I want to make another column which contain the extensions of the paths only. How can I do this in Microsoft Excel?
Hi there,
I am using Excel 2007 and I am trying to subtract these two values:
11:27:55.428
11:28:09.813
I have tried to format both as time and as "hh:mm:ss.000" and every time I try to subtract them I get #VALUE.
I have list of person names in column A.
I want to display "1" in column B for names which end with either "e" or "i" or "n".
If there would be only one match to test against, I would write something like:
=IF( MID(A1,FIND(" ",B1)-1,1) = "e", "1", "0")
In PHP I would solve that like this:
echo in_array( $names[$row_number], array('e', 'i', 'n') ) ? '1' : '0';
What formula should I use in column B in Excel?
I'm a trainer, basically. I'd like to find some sort of Excel-based training that's under the creative commons, or another awesome license.
I want to use it to train others, and make it better.
If this doesn't exist, I may have to write it. Because it should.
I am build a bar chart in Excel with data values ranging from e.g. 10 to 20. I want the X axis limits to be automatic, but although the right limit (near 20) works correctly, the left limit always defaults to 0.
I'd like the left limit to be near 10, instead of zero, without having to have the limit fixed. Is there any way to do this?
I have 3 columns, A=Date, B=Price, C=Grade in Excel. I want to calculate the average price of fuel for each year and an overall average of all years by grade.
The data table looks like this
Date | Price | Grade
2012-05-01 | $3.49 | Regular
2012-06-07 | $3.58 | Regular
2012-04-01 | $3.98 | Premium
2012-02-17 | $3.87 | Premium
2013-01-01 | $3.49 | Regular
2013-02-01 | $3.89 | Premium
2013-03-06 | $3.89 | Premium
2013-03-09 | $3.45 | Regular
The output should look something like this:
Year | Regular | Premium
2012 | 3.43 | 3.67
2013 | 3.45 | 3.73
All | 3.44 | 3.70
I have a value in Column A, which I want to compare with multiple values of corresponding cell in column B, and depending on that value, put the answer in column C.
For example, using the table below, it searching in column B for values which are less than or equal to 12 and put the answer in same order in column C.
Column A Column B Column C
12 0,12,13,14 Yes, Yes, No, No
101 101,102,103,104 Yes, No, No, No
How can I do this in Excel?
I have two Excel files, one on D:\ and the other one on E:\.
I reference one from the other, for example, using vlookup in the E: file to search from the D: file, like that:
VLOOKUP(A1,'D:\SHARIQ\[FILE NAME.XLS]SHEETNAME'!A1:10,3,FALSE)
As long as D:\SHARIQ\FILE NAME.XLS is open, I get the formula in the E: file displayed like this:
VLOOKUP(A1,'[FILE NAME.XLS]SHEETNAME'!A1:10,3,FALSE)
Why does it remove the whole path?
I am drawing graphs for a paper that supports only black and white graphs. I need to show more than 3 histograms and want to have different patterns on them like hash, dotted, double hashed etc instead of different colors in the legend.
I am using MS Excel 2007.
I tried but dont find a way except for the option available in design tab that I find when I double click on the chart area( These are shades of grey color and I want patterns like hashing, dots etc).
Thanks in advance,
Hi,
When I click a link in excel I notice that it requests the same link twice, but only opens one browser. This is a bit odd.
Another user has reported the sample problem here:
http://www.excelbanter.com/showthread.php?t=117600
Hi,
I have to automate something for the finance dpt. I've got an Excel file which I want to read using OleDb:
string connectionString = @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=A_File.xls;Extended Properties=""HTML Import;IMEX=1;""";
using (OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection())
{
using (DbCommand command = connection.CreateCommand())
{
connection.ConnectionString = connectionString;
connection.Open();
DataTable dtSchema = connection.GetOleDbSchemaTable(OleDbSchemaGuid.Tables, null);
if( (null == dtSchema) || ( dtSchema.Rows.Count <= 0 ) )
{
//raise exception if needed
}
command.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [NameOfTheWorksheet$]";
using (DbDataReader dr = command.ExecuteReader())
{
while (dr.Read())
{
//do something with the data
}
}
}
}
Normally the connectionstring would have an extended property "Excel 8.0", but the file can't be read that way because it seems to be an html file renamed to .xls.
when I copy the data from the xls to a new xls, I can read the new xls with the E.P. set to "Excel 8.0".
Yes, I can read the file by creating an instance of Excel, but I rather not..
Any idea how I can read the xls using OleDb without making manual changes to the xls or by playing with ranges in a instanciated Excel?
Regards,
Michel