I am trying to extract data from excel to google spreadsheet. I want to do it automatically. Is there an automated way available? There is an add-on called Sheetgo but it is paid is there any free one? I want this extraction to happen daily at a scheduled time. Is there a way?
You may find some good solutions here:
How to automatically import data from uploaded CSV or XLS file into Google Sheets
One of the answerers to this thread even claims to have created a “utility for automated import of xlsx files into google spreadsheet” called xls2sheets that you might find interesting.
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I have an excel file uploaded to Sharepoint Online document library.
The excel file has a VBA script to refresh (linked to Microsoft Query, pulling ERP data)
I need to automate the VBA refresh to occur on a daily basis at a set time of day
What's the best way to do this (task scheduler w/ Python, a pre-existing SPO tool, something else, etc)? I'm a noob so if you can provide somewhat detailed instructions or point me to some that would be greatly appreciated!
I doubt it matters but the reason is b/c the file is published as a data source to Tableau and an answer will prevent someone from having to manually update the file every day
Thanks in advance
Haven't tried a lot. Search engine results didn't provide an answer I could follow
Currently, I'm connecting Jotform to Google sheets where information with the submissions are uploaded. We primarily use excel for the bulk of our operations and would like to connect the submissions uploaded from google sheets to excel. I can use import data from web which excel offers but it more so just copies the entire table even if you delete some rows on excel.
I want to do something similar to what zapier offers where the connection is not just a copy of the entire table and it only uploads new rows uploaded to google sheets onto excel and refreshes frequently.
Is there a way I can do this? My best bet is to use Google sheets API's? But i'm not sure where to get started.
What are "new" submissions? Excel need to know that.
You can directly import the data from jotform to Excel, no need to do it via google sheets.
Yes, even then all submissions are downloaded, that will always be the case. But not all need to be displayed. You can choose in and with Power Query what shall remain and loaded to Excel.
If you don't use a date for what you consider new, you have to store all old data in Excel as well, so Excel can see whether a submission is already downloaded before or not. You could load all data to the Data Model, where it uses very little space.
You need to learn PowerQuery for this. It is very worth it, because with little learning you can do a lot of fantastic things to your submissions and other data.
I want to be able to create reports in Excel which read data from Google Analytics
How do I go about doing this? I find a lot of information about using Google Spreadsheets but my team is more familiar with Excel
I'd like them to be able to pivot data from google analytics/create graphs and i'd like to be able to create graphs which refresh when the data refreshes
You can easily convert a Google Spreadsheet to Excel format by downloading it as "xlsx".
I'm doing pretty much the same.
First of all, you need to have 2 separate sheets, 1 for your core data and one for your visual part (ur graphs).
In raw data sheet, get insert the data from GA
In graphs sheet, create ur graphs using the raw data.
Now, if you import new data and replace the old one, it should automatically update your graphs as well (unless you deleted some references).
In general, this could be automated, but typically you need additional tool to so so. I hope this helps
EDIT: I think this question belongs over at superuser not here at Stackexchange.
What I would like to do is have a single excel file that calls up data from every excel file in a given directory. Specifically if I have a time sheet excel file from multiple people working multiple different job numbers I would like to have that data populated in a single file for everyones times. The directory where the files are stored would be updated weekly so I would want the "master" excel file to reflect the weekly changes automatically...hopefully. Is there an easy way to do this that I would be able to teach someone else?
Import every file to a database table using stored procedure and export one excel file. You can schedule this as a job. Use OPENROWSET and xp_cmdshell. What technology are you using?
I know it is easy to display a counter on a webpage but I need to implement the same, ie, I need to write data to a cell in the Excel 2007 spreadsheet every time a person downloads it from my webpage.
To be more precise, when the user downloads the excel file to his hard drive and when it is opened, I want the spreadsheet to display the number of times the .xls file has been downloaded, in a cell (ofcourse along with other cells containing data).
I just need to figure out how do i programmmatically communicate with Excel 07 sheet.
That sounds like an exercise in futility since the number will be out of date as soon as the next person downloads the file. Is this what you really want to do?
If yes, it's very possible using some server-side scripts. PHP, Perl and other languages all have libraries that can be used to edit Excel files programmatically. Pick the one you are most comfortable with and go from there.
EDIT:
I think the best way to go since you control both the Excel file and the website is to add a counter to the website, and reference it in your Excel file via web queries. If you're not familiar with web queries, they are a tool in excel that let you import tables from the web that will be refreshed everytime the file loads (or even if a user hits refresh). Here's more information about the Web Query Tool.
Let me know if this solution works for you.
EDIT2:
Here's a link to a more up-to-date tutorial.