I’m currently in the process of developing a workflow in WorkFusion RPA Express.
I’m trying to copy list of numbers from an excel sheet to the clipboard and paste it in another excel sheet. The values copied are integers however when it’s pasted to the other sheet it pasted with the decimal point. How can I paste this as a string or as an integer?
You can use the Number Format action (inside Variables group of actions) to reformat the value you paste in Excel.
A bit of googling would have gone a long way here..
Select the cell(s) where you paste the data and adjust the number of decimals with these buttons. This will also automatically change the format from General/Text to Number
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Disclaimer - this should be a very simple task, but clearly everything I thought I knew about excel is false.
I'm trying to copy and paste data from a txt document to an excel document. An example of a line I'm trying to copy from the txt doc is: 4512544425701264.
However, when I paste into excel it pastes as 4512544425701260 but displays in the cell as 4.51254E+15. This happens for each line of data.
I've tried numerous ways to fix this problem none have worked including:
Copied the txt data into a Microsoft Word document, then tried
pasting into the excel.
Resized the cell.
Tried each cell formatting option.
Tried opening the txt doc in Excel, even progressed through the text import wizard. Interestingly, I noticed the data preview on page 3 displayed the data correctly. But after proceeding past the importer, the data loaded with the same problem.
Tried on another PC.
Copied and pasting one line at a time.
The only solution I have found is manually typing out each line, however this is highly unpractical due to the large amount of data.
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
To show full number rightclick on cell, choose "Format cells..". In "Number" tab choose "Number" category and set "Decimal places" to zero.
Unfortunately excel lets to put only 15 digits as a number. Every additional number is converted to 0, that is why your number 4512544425701264 is converted to 4512544425701260
If you don't need this number to be used in calculation, you can format cells to text format before pasting:
Source on digits limitation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/troubleshoot/excel/last-digits-changed-to-zeros
In Excel, this is expected behavior (it's Microsoft, after all). I have encountered it frequently when dealing with UPC codes, for example. In order to avoid this, format the cells you are trying to copy this data to as "Text" BEFORE you copy any data over.
Copy your data (CTRL+C), then select the first cell in the range where the data is going, then paste only the values. This should take care of it.
If for some reason you still get scientific notation, provided the cells have the "Text" formatting, you can select that cell, click in the Formula bar and hit ENTER.
When you paste into Excel, try calling "Text import wizard" in the Paste Options. This will allow you to set delimiter (in case of CSV) and later data type of a column where you can select "Text" which will tell wizard not try to convert your data into numbers.
I'm attempting to design a macro to simplify the update process for my company's order tracking, and I'm struggling with relative references. I'm using Excel 2010.
what I need the macro to do: Find a given part number on one workbook, and use the row number of to update formulas in a a second workbook.
In more detail:
Where |Y|= column letter of original spreadsheet, |X|= row number of original spreadsheet, and |X^|=Row number of ‘All Inventory.xls’
There are 4 separate spreadsheets I would need to run the macro from (It’d be a lot easier if I could have the 4 as separate pages on one spreadsheet, but unfortunately, my boss is 60 and is a bit fuzzy on how excel works.)
The spreadsheet ‘All Inventory.xls’ is not in table form, and I can’t convert it to one. (the guy who runs inventory is very fuzzy on how spreadsheets work, approximately five years from retirement, and about as friendly as a snapping turtle.)
When run from cell |Y||X| in a table:
Copy content of the cell in table column ‘Part #’ in the same row – structured reference [#[Part #]]|X|
Paste content of cell ‘[#[Part #]]|X|’ into Find/Replace
Switch to spreadsheet ‘All Inventory.xls’
Hit ‘find next’ – will land on cell C|X^|
switch back to original spreadsheet
return to original cell |Y||X|
type “=’[All Inventory.xls]Sheet1’!$E$|X^|”
go to cell |Y+1||X|
type “=’[All Inventory.xls]Sheet1’!$G$|X^|”
go to cell [Y][X+1]
End macro
I've tried recording this directly, while using relative references. Excel didn't like that. I'm not sure where to go from here.
I'm having a problem and havnt managed to find a solution online and was hoping I'd get lucky and someone could help.
I have a database application that exports a large dataset to .xlsx
A VBA application then maps this data into another Excel application.
When the data is exported out of the original database application, this process is outside of my control. All the cells have a 'General' cell format and we have some large numbers such as 172627108914 which is the serial number for a piece of equipment. In the exported xlsx file, this serial number is represented as 1.72627E+11.
The next stage of the process copies this data into another worksheet which has all cells formatted as text. The value is copied over but the value stays the same and the format of the cell changes from Text to General.
Does anyone know what I have to do to change to remove the scientific notation?
I'm using Microsoft Excel 2010.
Thanks
Append a single apostrophe to the front of the number. That will force Excel to read the number in 'text' format automatically, and the apostrophe will not show up at the front of the number when it's displayed.
Thanks for the help everyone, in the end some VBA code was written to convert all fields in the original export to text then iterate over each cell and rewriting the value from the formula line. This has resulted in a correctly formatted worksheet to pass to the second application
I am new to Sikuli. I need to copy data from excel sheets and paste them to a DB query using sikuli script. And how can I iterate among the excel cells to copy and paste the data repeatedly.
These data needs to copied and pasted one after the other.
It might be easier to copy all of the cells at once, then paste them one by one.
once Sikuli has opened Excel, you could do something like:
type(Key.HOME, KeyModifier.CTRL) #takes you to cell A1
type("a", KeyModifier.CTRL) #select all
type("c", KeyModifier.CTRL) #copy to clipboard
fromExcel = Env.GetClipboard().strip() #get clipboard contents into Sikuli, without leading or trailing white space
cells = fromExcel.split("/n") #split each cell into list on newline
#go to the destination app, maybe using App.open("nameOfYourApp") if it's not open yet, or App.focus("nameOfYourApp") if it is already open
for cell in cells: #use python to iterate through your list
#navigate to the line or cell where you want to paste
paste(cell)
Would something like that be of help?
Rather than providing a specific approach let's understand the options you have.
Simulate user keyboard actions (like it is described here by #autoKarma).
Excel sheet having a very specific structure allows you to detect some key points like first column and first row and then calculate other cells locations based on them.
You can try and use one of the Python Excel API libraries to access the excel sheet directly via API. If you only need to read the document and to to amend it, I believe this will be fairly easy to do.
Note: In all cases you will obviously have to think of how do you bring yourself to the point where you have an open Excel sheet on your screen and how to dispose of it when done.
I am trying to write and excel macro that will copy data from an excel file with multiple sheets. Each column will have different lengths and the name of the sheet will not always be known. I want it to start by having the user select the original file and a new one be started, which is where it will be copying to. There are multiple columns and only two of them I am interested in. They are the m/z and the intensity. I also have to know which sheet the value came from. I would prefer it if they sheet name was presented in a column next to the combined m/z's and intensity's. I am new to this and can use all the help available.
As above - use the macro recorder and make sure you are using named ranges.... an example upload would also help p[eople help you...