I need to find and copy a word(s) in a string. The condition is that the word is an incorrect one. Essentially, it's something like copy all words that has wiggle red underline in browser,MS Words, etc.
I am doing this to extract the brand names in hundred of thousand of free text cells. Since the brand names are usually not words in dictionary (for searchability and identifiablity) , this approach would help find the majority of them.
It doesn't have to be an excel functionality, I am open to any tool that works.
moving them directly into excel is tedious, shown by the link in the previous answer. If you would like a generated list of the misspelled words, follow the instructions on this site:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/a-word-macro-that-highlights-and-lists-misspelled-words/
The code copies the misspelled words into a new document for you, so they will be isolated from your original document. Then you can apply any formatting or data analyses if you need it.
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I would have thought this one would be asked to death so cannot see a solution - looking for a way to live link PowerPoint to Excel data, only for a word within an otherwise manually typed sentence.
I am not asking how to live link a chart or a table, I am asking how to have a live field within otherwise static text.
E.g. In a text box, there's the sentence "Revenue increased by 10% over the period, an improvement from the 7% increase over the prior period" and have only the '10%' and the '7%' be linked to two Excel cells.
I have seen that this is possible in the following pieces of software:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUGqgsT4gHU (skip to 20sec)
https://www.presentationpoint.com/blog/dynamic-text-boxes-powerpoint/
Doesn't seem like it's do-able in VBA though I'm comfortable in .NET too and have not been able to work out how this works, so any suggestion in either most welcome.
There are multiple suggestions to the effect of copy a cell and then paste-special - this does not allow you to embed the number in the sentence, it only allows you to past the cell in, which you would then have to type around. In the two links above, it is properly embedded and this is the type of solution I am after.
I think this is very do-able in VBA. The program on the website is of course very sophisticated, but you could very easily replicate some of the functionality.
For example by using tokens. You could enter something like "Best beer in city: #beerBrand#". Then you would iterate through your columngs and just search and replace the tokens.
If I get the program functionality right, what they do is ask the user to enter a prefix and sufix for each variable. That makes it even easier because you have the three parts of the sentence separate and you can just alsways replace the variable in the middle.
Would one of the approaches work in your case?
I'm trying to write a macro in Excel to find the average and standard deviation of typos in a natural language text data set in tab delimited format (a set of Tweets, specifically). I can find the average in Word easy enough by doing a CTRL+F for tabs to get number of messages and looking at the total number of errors listed in SpellCheck. This doesn't help with SD though. Purpose-built language analytics software can't search for general non-words without counting things like disfluencies ("ugh", "ach") as far as I can tell.
I can't figure out how to include spelling and grammatical errors in the Excel macro or how to break them apart by cell.
The data set is big enough that I don't mind minor inaccuracies (they shouldn't vary systematically between conditions).
This tool could be adjusted to evaluate basic writing skills or to compare non-standard uses of English in sufficiently large writing samples. Any help is appreciated.
Since Word has the ability built-in to detect spelling and grammatical errors, you could create a cross-program script in Excel. You would just have Word do the language processing piece, and Excel do the statistical analysis. You would need to enable the Microsoft Word 15.0 Object Library from the Tools > References menu in the Excel VBE.
VBA in Word allows you to detect if there's a spelling error. See this link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa171830(v=office.11).aspx
The logic behind the code would be:
From Excel, open a new Word document.
For each Tweet, copy the content of the cell and paste into the blank Word doc.
Have Word scan the document for errors, returning True if detected, False if not.
In Excel, if you get a True value, insert a 1 next to the tweet, and a 2 if False.
Clear all content from the Word doc.
Go to the next tweet (next cell) in Excel, and do steps 2-6 until each tweet has a 1 or 2 next to it.
You should be able to correlate the occurrences of language errors with other variables, such as, e.g., the Twitter handles.
Essentially, have each program do what it does best.
I have a word document which needs to be converted to a table.
The catch however is, that the document contains a thousand pages and each page, needs to be an individual cell in the excel sheet. When I copy paste from Word, each line gets converted to one cell which i don't want. I need all the content between two page breaks to be a part of one cell.
To give some background on the issue, I need to basically create a csv from the the word file such that each page from the document is one value, hence I am trying to create a table.
Is there a way with which, this can be automated?
Found my solution here :
https://superuser.com/questions/747197/how-do-i-copy-word-tables-into-excel-without-splitting-cells-into-multiple-rows
It basically involved replacing 'pilcrow' characters into my file for line breaks and doing vice versa in excel.
One important thing though, the article says to type 'alt+0010' (the key combination for line break) something while replacing pilcrows in excel. However, that did not work for me. Ctrl+J does the trick though, it inserts line break character in excel replace box.
Cheers :)
I am created a form-letter using an Excel spreadsheet as a forming tool connected to a database and using paste-link to connect the results to an MS Word document.
Each section of the document is given a single cell to draw from which utilizes a formula to comprise itself of several other cells based on a logic determinate upon the data from the database queries.
All of this functions perfectly well.
The problem arises when the generated blocks of text from Excel include two carriage-returns in a row, creating what MS Word thinks is a new paragraph (and technically it is). The rest of the letter is justified, and I have attempted to set justified text as the default alignment. But no matter what I try, any newly formed paragraphs generated inside of linked text from Excel will be left-aligned.
For this form letter to function properly it must have justified text throughout. Inconsistent formatting won't be accepted by management.
To be clear, I have attempted to modify the settings of the "Normal" style of the document in Word, as well as creating a new style based on Normal called "Justified" and setting that as the default by selecting it and clicking "Change Styles" -> "Set as Default".
The first paragraph of any given block will always remain justified-aligned, it is only subsequent, newly-created (as far as MS Word knows) paragraphs that aren't. So I suspect I am just not setting the default properly or...I don't know, something.
I tried linking as unformatted text but that, for some maddening reason, includes QUOTATIONS MARKS bookending the text! I'm baffled and frustrated.
Please help. I don't like to look the fool at work.
While I still do not know how to make Word insert new paragraphs into linked blocks of text without left-aligning them, I have a working solution to my particular problem.
By forcing my spreadsheet to create blocks of text with the maximum number of paragraphs, then forcibly justifying the output in MS Word, I was able to ensure that, as long as I close the document between updates, that the text blocks will only shrink in size, rather than grow. This way, Word does not recognize the updated text as "new" paragraph, as there was already a paragraph in that block.
I saved the Word document with this overabundance of paragraphs, and put the Excel spreadsheet back the way it was.
The format of our member numbers has changed several times over the years, such that 00008, 9538, 746, 0746, 00746, 100125, and various other permutations are valid, unique and need to be retained. Exporting from our database into the custom Excel template needed for a mass update strips the leading zeros, such that 00746 and 0746 are all truncated to 746.
Inserting the apostrophe trick, or formatting as text, does not work in our case, since the data seems to be already altered by the time we open it in Excel. Formatting as zip won't work since we have valid numbers less than five digits in length that cannot have zeros added to them. And I am not having any luck with "custom" formatting as that seems to require either adding the same number of leading zeros to a number, or adding enough zeros to every number to make them all the same length.
Any clues? I wish there was some way to set Excel to just take what it's given and leave it alone, but that does not seem to be the case! I would appreciate any suggestions or advice. Thank you all very much in advance!
UPDATE - thanks everybody for your help! Here are some more specifics. We are using a 3rd party membership management app -- we cannot access the database directly, we need to use their "query builder" tool to get the data we want to mass update. Then we export using their "template" format, which is called XLSX but there must be something going on behind the scenes, because if we try to import a regular old Excel, we get an error. Only their template works.
The data is formatted okay in the database, because all of the numbers show correctly in the web-based management tool. Also, if I export to CSV, save it as a .txt and import it into Excel, the numbers show fine.
What I have done is similar to ooo's explanation below -- I exported the template with the incorrect numbers, then exported as CSV/txt, and copied / pasted THOSE numbers into the template and re-imported. I did not get an error, which is something I guess, but I will not be able to find out if it was successful until after midnight! :-(
Assuming the data is not corrupt in the database, then try and export from the database to a csv or text file.
The following can then be done to ensure the import is formatted correctly
Text file with comma delimiter:
In Excel Data/From text and selected Delimited, then next
In step 3 of the import wizard. For each column/field you want as text, highlight the column and select Text
The data should then be placed as text and retain leading zeros.
Again, all of this assumes the database contains non-corrupt data and you are able to export a simple text or csv file. It also assumes you have Excel 2010 but it can be done with minor variation across all versions.
Hopefully, #ooo's answer works for you. I'm providing another answer mainly for informational purposes, and don't feel like dealing with the constraints on comments.
One thing to understand is that Excel is very aggressive about treating "numeric-looking" data as actual numbers. If you were to open the CSV by double-clicking and letting Excel do its thing (rather than using ooo's careful procedure), those numbers would still have come up as numbers (no leading zeros). As you've found, one way to counteract this is to append clearly nonnumeric characters onto your data (before Excel gets its grubby hands on it), to really convince Excel that what it's dealing with is text.
Now, if the thing that uploads to their software is a file ending in .xlsx, then most likely it is the current Excel format (a compressed XML document, used by Excel 2007 and later). I suppose by "regular old Excel" you mean .xls (which still works with the newer Excels in "compatibility mode").
So in case what you've tried so far doesn't work, there are still avenues to explore before resorting to appending characters to the end of your data. (I'll update this answer as needed.)
You're on the right track with the apostrophe.
You'll need to store your numbers in excel as text at the time they are added to the file.
What are you using to create the original excel file / export from database?
This will likely be where your focus needs to be regarding your export.
For example one approach is that you could potentially modify the database export to include the ' symbol prefix before the numbers so that excel will know to display them as text.
I use the formula =text(cell,"# of zeros of the field") to add preceding zeros.
Example, Cell C2 has 12345 and I need it to be 10 characters long. I would put =text(c2,"0000000000").
The result will be 0000012345.