I'm looking for a way to perform version control on excel files in git. I understand this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find an option that will work for an excel file with multiple
sheets in it.
For instance, in the suggestions offered here, one way is to save .xlsx file as a csv file and use git diff. However, this option doesn't work when there are multiple sheets. I'll be able to save only the active sheet as csv file.
The second option that has been suggested on SO is GIT XL. From what I understand from the documentation
of GIT XL, the diff option will allow me to view the lines that are altered in the command prompt.
For example, if there are 10 columns in an excel sheet and I replace the value in all ten columns
how can I view the data that was present previously. To give a better context, the contents of
the sheet in excel is overwritten every time I run a script for different values of parameters.
In such a case, I don't want to re-run the script each time if I want to view the results of a previous run.
The third answer that I found useful is available here, using xls2text. Again, I would like to know how this will work when there are multiple sheets.
Any suggestions will be of great help!
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tl;dr: Is there a way to have multiple (10+) excel Macro workbooks run the same project from a single location so that if I need to fix a bug, I don't need to fix it in every single workbook?
Long version:
My company uses excel workbooks for engineering charts. Any changes are formatted as bold and highlighted gray. We then have a revision "table" at the bottom (I say "table" because it's just some merged cells - there doesn't seem to be a way to make a separate table that doesn't follow the column sizing for the rest of the workbook, but that's a question for another day).
When we do a new revision, we have to first clear any formatting from the previous revision, make our changes (and format them), then insert a row to the revision "table", then unformat the previous revision entry and reformat our new revision entry. Then, we export the workbook as a PDF which we name according to our print naming format. However, it is easy to make mistakes when doing this because the file name must be manually entered according to the format.
To make this process less tedious/error-prone, I wrote a VB macro program to automate the above steps, among other things. It works great, and will be implemented on our charts company wide.
However, I can only do so much testing on my own - there are bound to be things I missed or can do more efficiently (I'm an engineer, not a professional programmer). And we have dozens of engineering chart spreadsheets. If we implement this and then I discover I need to fix a bug or make an improvement to part of the program, I don't want to have to fix it in every single workbook - that would take way too long and be too easy to miss a workbook!
Any advice would be appreciated.
I'm working on a long project and there are many betas with overlapping functionality. I keep raising the number of the beta after making substantial changes.
This file imports a bunch of data from spreadsheets which are exported feeds from a SQL database. It does this with no problem and that part of it has been working for months - importing some raw data sheets and using both cell references and VB to look at it different ways, and I set up a checklist page where the end user can go through certain records one by one and classify them.
All of this works fine and I really only made a few changes today, just finishing off little bits of code that take some data from one sheet and rearrange it in another to export. It was all working with no errors and I copied the file into a new folder (which I have been doing with these templates for months), imported my data (test data in this case), and tried to run the function that copies some info from one sheet onto an another.
Then I get an error from Excel that says "we can't connect to 'https://...my.sharepoint../BETAV9_8_ItemAccountingTEMPLATEetcetc. Please make sure you're using correct web address."
After that I click OK and then I get a second message that says:
Microsoft Excel cannot access the file 'same file' There are several possible reasons:
The file name or path does not exist
The file is being used by another program
The workbook you are trying to save has the same name as a currently open workbook
This file they're telling me they can't find is like 3 betas ago and I've been using subsequent versions without getting this error. That file isn't in the current working folder, nor in the folder from which I copied it originally.
So I'm thinking I have something in my file where there's a reference to an external file, so I went through this process: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-links-external-references-in-a-workbook-fcbf4576-3aab-4029-ba25-54313a532ff1?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
I don't know where to begin. There is only one thing in the Name Manager (a table that I created on one of these pages with VBA so I can sort it a couple different ways) and the button that says "Delete" is grayed out. There are several references in cells to other files - but not the BETAv9_8 it's telling me it can't find. They are simply file paths/names of the files the user imported - not hidden somewhere in code, just listed on a sheet so the user can check what data she imported.
After going through all these recommended steps I still can't find anywhere in my program that mentions BETAv9_8. In the meantime I'm getting an error for a thing that worked just fine a couple hours ago.
Is this a bug? Is there something I can do to fix it?
Thanks in advance
I use VBA in Excel to pull data from different sources (mostly .csv and .xls/.xlsx files) and paste them into my data tables (in the same Excel File I have a data table for each specific data source).
Each of those files comes with different settings. I have created an specific VBA Macro for each of my data sources to process, remove and copy the relevant information of each individual file, and then I call all of the Macros from another Macro. The problem I'm having is that for one of the data sources, when using the Workbooks.Open method, I have had to set the parameter Format to "Nothing" (Format:=5). But this affects then the subsequent macros and therefore the following files are not processed correctly.
I know I have two possibilities: Either I call this macro at the end, after I've processed all the other files or; I set the Format parameter in all of my Macros to the one specific for each of the files configuration. However there must be a way to simply reset the delimiter to the default one used in my Regional Settings. Does anyone knows a solution?
Sorry if there's already a thread with this issue but I've tried looking for it and didn't find any.
Thank you in advance.
I want to make a dynamic excel sheet that updates whenever a file is being created into a folder, think of letters. So the sheet needs to extract the name of the letter, the date&time when it is made, the author and so on, into a table in excel. Does anyone knows how to get that filedata?
I already know how to put data in a certain cell using VBA but the thing i get stuck in is how to get that data from a certain folder.
As Ron said, there is no event in VBA to handle that. However, if you want to stick to VBA only, you have basically two options:
You can update your cell whenever the workbook is opened using the Workbook.Open event (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.workbook.open). This is not really dynamic but might be sufficient (depending on your needs).
Other option would be to call a function periodically to check if the folder content has changed (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.application.ontime)... Not very performant, but would work for sure.
For the file data just follow Ron's suggestion.
Hope that helps, MJ.
I have about 10000 excel files, that in a specific cell of all of them there is a picture. I need a script to read all files and save the picture with the same name of the excel files in a folder.
Could you please help with that?
Thanks.
This method is based on a number of assumptions:
All the files (10000) are located in a know folder,
All files are named according to a paradigm that can be reproduced programmatically (if not, you can get the list of files within the folder, store the list within an array, and loop through the array),
Pictures are always within the same worksheet or, if in more than one, the names of the worksheets can be reproduced programmatically,
The filenames to be used to save the pictures can match (at least as a seed) the one of the Excel the pictures are extracted,
You will manage to write some basic VBA.
Note that for the VBA you have at least two options:
Write it within an EXCEL that will only serve as the extraction engine, or
Write it as a stand-alone file and run it via DOS commands.
The VBA logic:
Create the outer loop that processes a single file,
Within the outer loop, generate the name of a file to be open,
Open the file using Workbooks.Open VBA function,
Select the worksheet and the cell containing the picture,
Use the Workbook.SaveAs to save the picture (you will need to specify the type of file to be used, e.g. .bmp).
As a simple and very efficient tool to get the code (at least) partially generated by Excel, you can RECORD a MACRO for each action and then stop recording. You will see the code generated (you will need to access the VBA mode). You can copy-paste the generated code into your development (you might need to do some simple adaptations though).
That's it.
Hope you manage. Good luck!!