I want to create a pretty big table in excel.
I have 4000 rows and 70 columns, I have images that are locked into cells as well.
Do I have a chance this table creation process will work, or will excel be stuck?
Is there a workaround maybe?
any help will be much appreciated.
Excel doesn't have a hard cap on it's rows / column count (well it does but it's astronomical), although once reaching certain thresholds, it might be preferable to move towards a database solution. Have you considered creating a small MySql server instead of using excel files?
For excel limitations see : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/data-model-specification-and-limits-19aa79f8-e6e8-45a8-9be2-b58778fd68ef
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I am having data which is reported in excel format and the same is created manually. There are lots of typos expected in the report as the person feeding the data in excel sheet is highly unskilled. The way the person listens to the data entry, as per his understanding the data is entered in excel eg Shree/Shri/Sri etc. sounds almost similar while they are pronounced but all 3 are different as the data as whole.
At present I am solving the problem by cleaning the data with Open Refine java based localhost solution using various clustering methods available in the software. The data is added to the excel pool in incremental manner hence the excel rows are increasing after each update. Open refine is consuming heavy resources as it works on localhost.
It will be really helpful if there is any other way round to solve the problem.
Thanks in advance!
What i want to do
I'm not too sure how to formulate my question so here it goes.
I am helping with a big 20k+ rows excel spreadsheet, that has data sorted by ID. What I want to do is sort that data by company name and export to another excel file.
What I would like to know is - what are the best methods to do that with least manual job, sounds weird, however I am helping my fathers friend and he does this manually every quarter.
My idea of doing this is by importing that spreadsheet into database and then exporting it as I like, however I feel that there is more simple way of doing that.
I'm not sure if I understand your question: 20,000 rows in really not that much (the maximum is about one million), and as far as sorting is concerned, I've made a small screenshot of how to sort an Excel table, based on company value and ID (sorry for the Dutch language), you might record this and turn it into a VBA macro:
Is this what you are looking for or do you need extra information?
I have an excel file close to 300MB. There are a few tabs and are all text based.
All fonts are the same. Some are characters and some are date formats. one tab is close to 1M row now. But the number of columns in all tabs are only less than 30. No macros included or links to other files.
I read that Excel limit is ~1M rows X 2000 columns. Does that mean as long as my columns are less than 30, then this file can still potentially grow? Or would it just stop running once it reaches 1M?
thanks in advance.
Once you have 2^20 (1048576) rows you will not be able to add a new row. In order to understand this, select range A1 and keep pressing Ctrl+Down arrow until you see the last row. Once you reach it, you cannot go further.
Concerning the 1.000.000+ entries and the need for more rows - it seems that you are using Excel as a database, and it is really not a good idea to use it as one. If you need so many entries, you probably need a nice database, which would be fast and easy. MS Access (as far as you are using Excel, this is the db with most similar interface) can solve your solution easily. Or MS SQL Server.
I have around 200,000 data in excel which is separated in per 15min for each day for two years. Now, I want to add for each day(including all the 15mins data at once) eg. 01/01/2014 to 12/31/2016. I did it using a basic formula (=sum(range)) but it is very time consuming. Can anyone help me find a easy way to resolve this problem?
It's faster and more reliable to work with big data sets using Ms Power Query in which you can perform data analitics and process with single queries, or using Power View of the dataset loaded into the datamodel that really works really fast.
My current employer (to remain nameless) has a collection of incredibly sophisticated Microsoft Excel 2003 worksheets (developed by contractors, also to remain nameless).
The employer is replacing the Excel-based solution with a SalesForce-based solution (developed by other contractors, likewise to remain unnamed). The SalesForce solution is also very complex using dozens of related objects and "Dynamic SOQL" to contain the data and formulas which previously was contained in the Excel-based solution.
The employer's problem, which has become my problem, is that the data from the Excel spreadsheets needs to be meticulously and tediously recreated in .CSV files so it can be imported into SalesForce.
While I've recently learned I can use CTRL-` to review formulas in Excel, this doesn't solve the problem that variables in Excel have cryptic names like $O$15. If I'm lucky, when I investigate $O$15, I'll find some metadata explaining if n cells up and/or some other data m cells to the left, and/or (in rare instances) there may be a comment on the cell.
Patterns within the Excel spreadsheets are very limited, rarely lasting more than 6 concurrent rows or columns and no two sheets which need to be imported have much similarity.
Documentation of all systems are very limited.
Without my revealing any confidential data, does anyone have any good ideas how I might optimize my workflow?
It's not clear exactly what you need to do: here are 3 possible scenarios, requiring increasing knowledge of Excel.
1. If all you want is to convert the Excel spreadsheets into CSV format then just save the worksheets as CSVs.
2. If you just want the data and not the formulae then it would be simple (using VBA) to output anything that isn't a formula (the cell.Formula won't start with =).
3. If you need to create a linkage excel-->csv-->existing Salesforce objects/SOQL then you will need to understand both the Excel Spreadsheets and the Salesforce objects/SOQL that have been created. This will be difficult unless you have good knowledge and experience of Excel and also understand what the salesforce App requires.
Brian, if you're still working on this, here's one way to approach the problem. I use this kind of process often for updating data between SFDC and marketing automation apps.
1) Analyze the formulae that you're re-creating in Salesforce.com to determine what base data fields you need (stuff that doesn't have to be calculated from something else.
2) Find those columns/rows in your spreadsheets and use Paste Special -> Values in a new spreadsheet to create an upload file with values instead of formulae that you need for each data area (leads, prospects, accounts, etc.)
3) If you have to associate the info with leads or contacts or accounts and you have already uploaded or created those records in Salesforce.com, be sure to export them with their ID numbers. That makes it easy to use the vlookup formula in Excel to match up fields that you need to add and then re-upload the data into Salesforce.
Like data cleaning, this can be a tedious process. But if you take it step by step it shouldn't be too hard. Good luck.