I am trying to have a single working excel document rather than multiple documents. The problem is that every document requires 3 signatures. If I merge the documents, each sheet would require 3 signatures.
The signatures would need to only affect the sheet they are on, rather than the whole document. For example, if Sheet1 is signed, it cannot be edited, but Sheet2 can still be edited. I do not mind using VBA if that is the best way to do this. I cannot even find a reference to anyone else trying this before... Thank you!
This does not work because signing Excel files is a built in Excel feature that is designed by Microsoft to sign a complete file. Therefore it is not possible to sign a worksheet only.
After a file is signed it is closed for editing:
For reference: Add or remove a digital signature in Office files.
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I recently created an automated Excel utility (using Microsoft Office 2019), in which I've extensively used data validations, VBA code, named ranges and formatting. It was working well until one day I received an Excel prompt message that read:
When I click on Yes, it gives me another pop-up where it says it recovered the file, and also gives me a link to the error log XML file. I click on it and open the .xml file using my default browser, and it shows the following details:
Looks like it is removing data validations from a particular sheet, and I realize that is true when I navigate to that sheet in the UI. To work around this unwarranted and repeated data-validation removal that Excel application is enforcing, I created a macro code that will re-instate all these data validations as required. The real problem arises when this Excel file is opened on a different computer with Microsoft Office 365. Looks like it is removing not just data-validations but also other components like named ranges and buttons. There could be other things that it might be removing, which I am unaware of at the moment. So the macro created to re-instate the data-validations is no longer useful.
Why does this problem arise? And why is different version of Excel behaving differently? How do I solve this? Appreciate your kind help. Thank you!
As rightly suggested by Ron Rosenfeld and e_conomics, the issue was with the data validation lists, whose sources were strings of comma separated values that were going beyond 255 characters. Apparently, that is a limitation with Excel.
When I replaced the sources of data validation lists (string of comma separated values) with the ranges containing the corresponding values, the problem resolved itself. The repair dialogue never appeared again.
I have around 30 Excel spreadsheets, each with 20+ worksheets. Each of these worksheets follows the same basic format, though there are slight differences. I also have a Google doc with sections that match each of the worksheets.
Somehow I need to merge the data from the spreadsheets and the Google doc into a single, searchable, editable document, which will become the new safe source, eliminating the need to maintain 600+ worksheets.
So far, the plan is to have an intern copy/paste from Excel into the appropriate section in the Google doc, but besides being akin to torture, I'm afraid this approach will take days.
Can anyone think of a way to automate at least some of this?
I've been thinking that if I could somehow take all of the Excel data and migrate it into either Microsoft Word or a Google Doc, that would be a good first step.
I have used Google Apps Script in the past and could probably figure out how to write a macro in Excel, but I can't wrap my head around how I would actually accomplish what I need to do.
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Wanted to provide an update in case anyone else ever has a similar problem...
I ended up moving all of the existing spreadsheets to Google Drive and using Google Apps Script to iterate through the folder to get the name and id of each file and then iterate through all worksheets of each of those spreadsheets, copy all data from each sheet and append it to a new master spreadsheet.
I then migrated the existing Google Doc to a Google Sheet so I could sort.
After that I manually copied the applicable sections from this Google Sheet into the correct, corresponding section of the master spreadsheet. I'm sure someone smarter than me would have been able to script that last part as well, but I was having trouble figuring out the logic and decided to brute force the last step.
I have a heavily formulated workbook which will be used by staff members who will paste in potentially confidential client information. The workbook then comes up with graphics and data to summarize the imputed information
In an ideal world, the people using the program will be able to Save specific sheets as a PDF and would be able to close the program without saving changes to the worksheet but Excel always demands to save the template first, THEN will allow PDFs. This is obviously a problem as if a person uses it, paste's in a client's information and saves the result as a PDF then whoever next opens the Excel workbook will have that previous client's information showing.
SO. I either need a way to tell Excel to not require compulsory saving to allow PDF conversion or another option which will result in the same thing.
I should also note that the workbook has to allow users to paste in information so I don't imagine a Read Only will help :/
I have also attempted using a Macro-Enabled Template which still has the same problem
I imagine there's a ridiculously simple solution to this.
Thanks in advance
Here I am trying to use Excel Rest Service to get some data from SharePoint.
Excel file Name: UserData.xlsx
This excel have two workbook
Work Data
User Salary%
I am able to get work data by using below query
.../sites/portal/_vti_bin/excelrest.aspx/Reports/UserData.xlsx/model/Ranges('''Work Data''!A24|M24')?$format=atom
So it means my URL creation logic is correct and hence I am able to get data in my C# program.
However I am not able to get data for second Workbook with below URL
.../sites/portal/_vti_bin/excelrest.aspx/Reports/UserData.xlsx/model/Ranges(**'''User Salary%**''!A24|M24')?$format=atom
I couldn't figure out why I am able to access the first workbook, but not my second; although, the URL looks same.
One reason may be that second workbook contains % (User Salary%), which might cause a problem, but I cannot rename workbook since it is created by different department.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I was facing the same issue while reading the values from Excel Sheet "Risk Matrix". It is Space " " which is creating issue in Excel REST.
XYZ.xlsx/model/Ranges('Risk matrix!K15:L15')?$format=json
The thing worked for me is to rename the Excel Sheet name:
XYZ.xlsx/model/Ranges('Riskmatrix!K15:L15')?$format=json
I tried to search other approach but due to time constraint I had to do the above work around.
As far as I understand cells with formulas in Microsoft Office Excel can contain calculated values when serialized and saved in Office Open XML formats (specifically SpreadsheetML). This most likely applies to other types of dependencies and functions of values from other cells (like charts, pivot tables, etc.). I most likely do something wrong, but when processing this XML documents (SpreadsheetML) by external tools, that do not use any .Net components or similar APIs provided by MS, but just directly manipulating XML, I get into a problem that when I modify some content of one of worksheets Excel will still use last generated values in cells containing formulas. So when user opens generated spreadsheet he sees modified data but all the calculated fields are outdated. Now the only thing that I could find (these days) on internet was this:
http://openxmldeveloper.org/discussions/formats/f/14/p/1561/4164.aspx
This is really not a preferable solution especially if it applies to any kind of calculated cells and objects (charts, etc.) as it means partially reimplementing some SpreadsheetML processor when you do not know exactly the structure of all worksheets.
I would hope there would certainly be either an option in Excel or a configuration in one of the SpreadsheetML parts to force recalculations or to mark cells dirty, but I couldn't find one yet.
There is an assumption that scripting would help, but my lack of knowledge of that area didn't brought me to any successful results yet as I'm not sure how to include scripts into SpreadsheetML worksheet. Though I found quite some examples how to trigger recalculation and how to add open event listeners.
The easiest way is to remove the calculated value from the cell (as also noted in the link you provided).
You do not have to know the exact structure of worksheets. Just remove all occurrences of <v>#VALUE!</v> in worksheets/sheet1.xml (so that other functions will not be affected).
press F9 to recalculate all open workbooks
Excel Recalculation
Perhaps your Calculation Mode for the workbook is getting set to manual. Force this mode to Automatic when you open the workbook by setting it to null in the code with the following:
public void SetAutomaticCalculationMode(WorkbookPart workbookPart1)
{
Workbook workbook1 = workbookPart1.Workbook;
CalculationProperties calculationProperties1=workbook1.GetFirstChild<CalculationProperties>();
calculationProperties1.CalculationMode = null;
}
This will correspond to Automatic calculation mode as seen in the Options of Excel 2007 client: