Is it possible to set a Unique GUID Property of each the excel workbook sheet. So that even when user renames the sheet I could be able to retrive the correct sheet programmatically via sheet Unique GUID.
We are creating a plugin which should be able to point to correct excel sheet even when user renames it to a different value.
Could not find any handle or property in excel sheet object.
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet sheet1 in ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
This is a long shot but I'd set the (Name) field for the worksheet in Excel directly (from the VBA Editor) ...
... and see if that is then accessible from the CodeName field in the interop properties for the workbook in C# implementation.
If you're not familiar with how to get to that editor, in Excel, press Alt + F11
Obviously after you've made that change, save the workbook and then try again from your C# project.
That field is for that exact purpose but it's a design time field only, you can't set it at run time. It's used so if the name of the sheet changes or it's index changes, you can still reference it via the technical name (CodeName).
I'd be interested to see how that goes and if it then works for you.
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I have an Excel file where some data from multiple geographies come together. People from one geography don't have access to the sharepoint of other geographies. Each geography has its own worksheet where the data should be updated once a month.
I would like to have a button on each worksheet where once a month someone from each geography updates their worksheet before it is bundled together into one worksheet.
The function .UpdateLinks only works with the whole workbook which is not desirable since the sharepoint access is divided.
I tried to set Excel calculation to manual and afterwards made a button to .Calculate that specific sheet but it seemed to work at first but is not reliable.
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("worksheet1").Calculate '(inconsistent)
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("worksheet1").UpdateLink '(doesn't work)
I would like to have a button to update links only in a specific worksheet and not the whole workbook.
The Workbook.UpdateLink method is located in Workbook and does not exist in Worksheet therefore it is only possible to update the links of the whole workbook but not of single worksheets only.
Updating links in single worksheets only is not supported.
Can anyone help me out with this VBA Macros query? I want to compare a worksheet with another worksheet in a different workbook. However, I don't want to open that workbook when comparing. I just want to changes to be shown in the current worksheet that I am using.
Is there something like a temporary data storage using Macros which stores the data temporarily from another workbook, compares it without ever physically opening the workbook?
You don't need VBA for this. You can use regular worksheets formulas, even if the other file isn't open.
For example, if we want to compare cell A1 of the current worksheet to cell A1 on worksheet Sheet1 of an (open or closed) Excel workbook saved as c:\myPath\myFile.xlsm, we could use:
=IF(A1='C:\myPath\[myFile.xlsm]Sheet1'!A1,"It's a Match!","Not a Match")
More Information:
Office.com : Create an external reference (link) to a cell range in another workbook
Microsoft Press : How to Combine Data from Multiple Sources in Microsoft Excel 2016 (book excerpt)
I was working with VBA when Excel crashed.
I recovered the workbook but instead of having named sheets, it created a Workbook? object for each sheet.
I cannot delete these objects with the GUI, and which means I also cannot change the sheet names back.
I get an error:
Invalid Property Value
I assume this is because of the object. (Note: I can change the sheet name to something else.)
In an excel workbook, called workbook A, I set up a connection to another workbook, called workbook B for one particular spreadsheet. This is because I need the worksheet in both locations, and for it to update in the background. That is all set up and working fine, however I want to keep the original formatting. Ive searched the web and tried editing the 'Data' External Data Properties, preserving the cell formatting is enabled. However the data displaying is not in correct format.
Any help would be appreciated.
Paste twice is required.
1) Paste link
2) Paste format
See link below:
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-general/500227-how-do-i-paste-links-and-keep-formats.html
This is a good theory discussion. I have a VBA heavy workbook that pulls information from a database for a specific item. Let's pretend that that item is a sales invoice. The way the workbook works now is that there is a cell in which you put a invoice number then click a refresh button and all the information for that invoice is pulled and munged in the workbook.
Is there a way that, from a command line sorta thing, set the cell with the invoice number to a value then execute the refresh when the workbook is opened? I know that I can fire the refresh macro when the workbook open via VBA, the real question is can I set a cell value to something from outside Excel. The goal is to provide a hyperlink I build that when a user clicks it, the cell value is set then the data refreshed. I am not sure where to look for this answer.
Thank you.
From reading the link I have included below, it would appeear that you cannot pass command line parameters to excel directly, however, you can use vb script which accepts parameters and then the vb script opens excel and inserts the parameter value
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