I don't really know how to express what I'm looking for, so I'll give a bit of context:
I have and add-in for Excel and PowerPoint that allows the user to insert shapes into the worksheet/slide with specific sizes, colors and values to form a stylized chart. I don't use the integrated charts because my company needs some weird styles and parameters that I can only replicate using shapes.
The problem is that once the shapes are in the worksheet/slide the user cannot go back to the add-in and change the chart values or series. For example, a user can't redefine the values and instead of $50 put $90 and update automatically the chart (as with the Office charts that we all know and love).
So what I thought as a solution is to have a 'background text file' or something like that with a dictionary of the charts and the shapes that are part of it; also the values and other characteristics like the x and y axis values. This way, when the user goes back to the add-in, he/she can retreive all the info from the original chart and change values, parameters or whatever is neeeded -- using the shapes' dictionary.
In essence, I want to program something like Think-cell but in Visual Basic.
Any suggestion is very welcomed!
I have a horizontal bar chart SVG element created from reading in a .CSV using D3.
The Y-axis contains ~200 "project" text labels next to each horizontal bar.
I would like the user to be able to select a block or all the projects on the Y-axis and copy and paste into excel.
Currently, when everything is copy-pasted into excel, all the labels just appear as one long string of text. Is there a way to add a hidden comma/new line to the label that will allow it to be pasted in excel?
This is my first question on here, sorry if this doesn't make sense.
I want the user be able to copy and paste these y-labels into Excel
I am using BIRT 4.4.1 in eclipse for report generation.
I would like to wrap my text of Table Header, it works fine in webviewer but when i exported to excel the table cell text is in a single line, and also the text is overflowed. I dont want to make the cell width equal to the content, I would like to wrap the text based on its container width.
I have set the cell width and label whitespace property as auto. is it correct, or what do i do to make it work in exported excel report?
In Webview
After exported, Excel view
In 4.4.2 export as XLS (not xlsx). As a workaround you can also add a line return within the text and that will appear correctly when you export to xlsx.
A third option that works with xlsx output is to select the text box in the cell, and in General Properties set the Whitespace to Preformatted. Then, either set the header cell size to a height that covers the required text OR in general properties of the entire report, set the layout to Auto Layout.
I can usually find an answer to the problems I'm having via a quick google search, but this one I'm struggling to even form the question in order to locate an answer.
I'm trying to find out whether it is possible to use Excel Tooltips to display cell data. For example, on mouse over: a tooltip appears displaying the cell values from selected cells, preferably with some plain text but not essential.
i.e. I have an overview table which simplifies data from another table but want said cell values to appear on mouse over.
I have some data of form
[39645961,-79966658]358920045121212[0.75]2013-01-30 20:47:52
[39646124,-79966771]358920045121212[0.5]2013-01-30 20:47:54
[39646134,-79966733]358920045121212[0.5]2013-01-30 20:47:56
[39646123,-79966723]358920045121212[0.5]2013-01-30 20:47:58
[39646144,-79966724]358920045121212[0.5]2013-01-30 20:48:09
......
How can I import them into an excel file into separate columns. like
39645961 -79966658 358920045121212 0.75 2013-01-30 20:47:52
39646124 -79966771 358920045121212 0.5 2013-01-30 20:47:54
39646134 -79966733 358920045121212 0.5 2013-01-30 20:47:5
Any ideas?
If it's not too frequent task:
Copy-paste the text to Excel (will occupy one column)
Data - Text to Columns (Excel 2003)
Delimiters: Comma and Other: ]
After completing the operations, insert a column after the remaining non-splitted fragment (358920045121212[0.75) and repeat Text to Columns for this column only with Other delimiter as [.
1) Copy the data into a text file, like Notepad.
2) Use find and replace to replace bracket characters with a tab character.
You can not directly type a tab character into the replace field, because it will just move your cursor to the next field. To get around this:
Open another Notepad window and press tab, then copy the tab into the replace field of the original Notepad window. Hit replace and repeat this process with space and comma characters.
3) Save and close the notepad file.
4) Open the notepad file in Excel. (choose file, open, and don't forget to change the file type in the open dialog from "All Excel Files" to "All Files"
5) This will open the Text Import Wizard. Hit next, next and finished, and the data should show up in separate columns
If you want to do it strictly in Excel, you will have to extract the individual data elements from each string using a combination of text functions, including SEARCH or FIND, LEFT, MID and RIGHT. The following formulas show one wqy to extract each element from one of the strings, which I have assumed is in A1.
=MID(A1,2,SEARCH(",",A1)-2)
=MID(A1,SEARCH(",",A1)+1,SEARCH("]",A1)-SEARCH(",",A1)-1)
=MID(A1,SEARCH("]",A1)+1,SEARCH("]",A1)+SEARCH("[",MID(A1,SEARCH("]",A1),99))-SEARCH("]",A1)-2)
=MID(A1,SEARCH("[",A1,2)+1,SEARCH("]",MID(A1,SEARCH("[",A1,2)+1,99))-1)
=MID(A1,SEARCH("????-??-??",A1),10)
=RIGHT(A1,8)
You would enter these formulas horizontally to the right of A1, then copy them down.
There is a much simpler way - use a third party piece of software.
The one I used costs me very little for the year, but means i don't need to mess around with trying to get it right.
Its the only tool i found which isn't a monthly subscription as well.
Its a desktop based application.
https://onpage.rocks/product/server-log-tool/