I have multiple Excel files in the same format and I want to combine them into a single file.
How can I merge them into one single excel file using VBA?
VBA is no longer required to merge files. You can use Power Query and merge all files in the same folder with just a few clicks. When the files change, you just update the query.
You have two choices:
a "flat" file, in which all the data are in a single sheet (BAD)
A multi-sheet file (GOOD)
In the first case open a new file, cut and paste your existing content into the new (single) sheet
In the second case Move/Copy the sheets to a New Document.
There: you now have enough Google fodder to get you started.
I had this same issue a while back and found an excellent solution thanks to my good friend Google. All credit for this solution goes to the following page: computer hope
To merge Microsoft Excel files together, save them as CSV files first (it would be possible to automate this part in VBA if there is a recurrent need). Open the Excel files and in the menu bar, click File, then Save As. In the Save as type drop-down list, select CSV (comma delimited) (*.csv) from the list.
Do this for each Excel file you want to merge, then place all the CSV files in the same folder. For ease, place them in a folder in the root of the C: drive (e.g., c:\csvfiles).
Open the Windows command prompt (to get to this, in the Search or Run line, type cmd and press return) and navigate to the folder containing the CSV files. Type dir to view the files in the folder and ensure all the files are there.
Type in the following command to merge all CSV files in the folder into a new CSV file titled "newfile.csv" (any name could be used):
copy *.csv newfile.csv
After the new file is created, open the new CSV file in Microsoft Excel and save it as an Excel file.
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I have this excel file with 15 sheets and I want to convert all the sheets into different csv files, ie 15 sheets ==> 15 csv files. I need to do this on a unix environment where I have limited permission. I can't use python or similar for this matter. How can I achieve this using bash script with minimum installation/changes to the environment? I can see 'apt-get' is there in the system. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks
In order to convert one particular file of CSV then it can be exported through the files and could be saved through the csv if multiple files have to be converted then: -
Press F5 key, select the folder contains the Excel files you want to convert to CSV files in first popping dialog.
Click OK, then in the second popping dialog, select the folder to place the CSV files.
Click OK, now the Excel files in the folder have been converted to CSV files and saved in another folder.
You can download the binary of csvtk, uncompress it in a folder and than give it execute permission.
Than you can run csvtk xlsx2csv -a input.xlsx to have list of the sheets. Then you can build a bash loop to convert every sheet to csv, changing for every loop the sheet number csvtk xlsx2csv -i 1 input.xlsx >1.csv (here is 1).
If you want to use the sheet name it's csvtk xlsx2csv input.xlsx -n "sheetName" >sheetName.csv
I am having a folder of 10 excel-based CSV files. Is there any method to copy the data from all these files into 1 excel
Not good with VBA, so thought to ask you guys
On a first sight, I would go for the following approach (coming up with the codes is up to you, Google is your friend):
Get a list of all file names within that directory
Iterate over every item from the above list and open the file with Workbooks.Open(...)
Copy the whole content and paste it to the additional Excel you want to manage to hold the data of all files
Repeat the steps for each file
Remember to save the last row after every paste s.t. you can continue with amending the data into the addtional Excel instead of replacing the content.
Does anyone know what registry keys need to be modified in order to open macro enabled excel files in a separate instance of Excel (ie: separate windows)?
I followed the instructions on the following pages Microsoft How-To (if you want to open *.xlsx files in separate instances of excel)
and relation between registry folders and file extensions. The 'Microsoft How-To' link worked nicely and did exactly what it was supposed to do. However, I need xlsm files to open in separate windows and for the xlsx files to continue to open the default way (all in the same window/excel-instance).
I thought if i modified the Excel.SheetMacroEnabled.12\shell\open data (similar to what is described in the first link) the *.xlsm files would then always open in a new window each time.
Instead of this working successfully, now when I try to open an *.xlsm file, a blank excel window comes up with no workbook in it (after this failed attempt I imported the original settigs back so everything was restored).
Figure: I believe one of the folders shown in the image below has the key which needs to be changed in order to open excel macro files in separate windows.
You also need to delete the command REG_MULTI_SZ (the one with the seemingly gibberish-cryptographic value). Backup it in case it goes wrong!
Then, the XLSM files will open in a separate Excel program (notice the brief splash screen, which only appears when a new instance of Excel is created).
But be careful! In my tests, the order in which you open the file types make a big difference!
For example, if there is an Excel instance with a XLSM file open, and you open a XLSX file, it will try to reuse the existing Excel instance, because the registry associated to Excel.Sheet.12 tells it to do it no matter the file type already open. Only XLSM files opened after an existing Excel instance is running will create its own instance of Excel.
I will search for a workaround, but I think this is enough for you to start the tests in your computer.
I have written a macro which opens 2 comma delimited files (Generic Tables used by Prophet 8.1 ending with a .fac extension), does a comparison and creates another workbook which highlights all the differences.
The macro seems to fail when the files have the same name but has different directories.
What would be the easiest way to overcome this problem without having to actually change the file name as seen in the location? It is against company policy to mess with the actual files as seen in the location. Is there a way to assign some temporary name to the file and not save it?
In Excel you cannot have two files open with the same name!
If you don't want to rename the files, copy one temporarily using a different name - and delete it afterwards (assuming you only want to read from it)
If you have to modify/save the original files, then the only two options you have is to rename them (you can afterwards rename them back to the original name) - or change your procedure so only one file is open at the time (e.g. by temporarily storing some data from the first file in a temp workbook that gets created and closed during the code execution).
I want to create a batch file which when I run this file, an excel file should open with some columns in it.
Say if I click on batch file, excel file with columns name, project, ID should also get included in excel file.
Also with this a macro should be open.
Please help. I dont have any idea about this.
I don't think it is possible to automate excel with pure batch.
Why not:
Create an "template" excel file with the default columns and macro included
Have a batch file copy this template (copy template.xslx newfile.xslx) file and open it (`Start newfile.xslx).
For the new file, you'd either have to generate a random or timestamp-based name or have the user enter the name before making a copy.