I'm looking for a way to export a spreadsheet (from MS Excel or LibreOffice Calc) without evaluating formulas so the formulas are stored in the CSV. I know, for example, I could convert formulas to text in MS Excel prior to export, but don't want to modify the formulas. It appears the default behavior for CSV export in MS Excel loses the formulas if they're not displayed as text.
First, select the tab with the formulas, then hold "Ctrl" + "~" (the tilde character), then do a File, Save As, and choose .csv.
I tried this and opened the file up in notepad, and the formulas were intact.
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I copy column A from excel to notepad++, then do some editing,
then copy from notepad++ back to excel
however, when it is pasted back to excel, the data expands into column B and C.
So I think using Microsoft Word as a workaround, I copy from notepad++ to Word , then copy from word to excel, the data successfully stays within only column A in Excel.
I have many files, it would be the best to only copy between notepad++ and excel.
so how to keep data in column A only when copy from notepad++ to excel?
thanks in advance for any help
Export your text from Excel as CSV file.
Do your changes in exported CSV file. While editing, keep the CSV syntax.
Import your text from CSV back to the Excel.
I strongly recommend to explicitly select encoding UTF-8 when exporting and importing the CSV. If you check closer, that option is available in both export and import. Otherwise there is a risk of damaging of special characters (national characters, symbols etc) potentially contained in the file.
I am trying to export an Excel file (.xlsx) to a csv, with LibreOffice. Some columns have hyperlinks, which I can open when the sheet is open in LibreOffice. The cell does not show the link, but a short summary text: the link is somehow a property of the cell (or the text, not sure).
I would like that the CSV contains the links for the affected columns (I don't care about the short summary text), but by doing a "Save As csv" I am losing the links. What can I do?
EDIT
I have investigated a bit: the hyperlink can be manually created in Libreoffice in a cell with Ctrl-K or from the menu Insert -> Hyperlink. When I try to export the csv, I am offered two relevant options:
save cell content as shown
save cell formulas instead of calculated values
I have played around with them, but those are not helping at all.
Is there any way of exporting the hyperlinks instead of the text?
From what I can tell, the CSV export filter always saves the link text, not the link URL. This behavior occurs when saving from LibreOffice format as well, so your question does not need to involve Excel or the .xlsx format.
What I would probably do is write a macro to create a CSV file with the URLs. If you want to try that, then have a look at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Accessibility/XAccessibleHyperlink.
Depending on what you are trying to do and how much time you are willing to invest, you can create your own filter.
Another option that requires programming would be to use the HTML export filter, which saves both the link text and link URL, and then write some code to parse out the URL.
I have a spreadsheet that I need to convert into code. Is there a way to export the spreadsheet that keeps the formulas intact?
When I save it as any other format it converts the formulas to their values. For example, if I had =(4/2), the CSV would just put 2. Whereas I need the original formula. I have tried accessing the spreadsheet using PHP Excel also but it cannot load the spreadsheet due to size.
Simplest way is to do CTRL+` and then copy+paste to Notepad or wherever you want
I want excel to show 625 as 625.00
I don't really want to select the cell and go to format and manually do everything.
My .csv file will be having "625.00", so how can I set Excel 2010 to do this automatically ?
There are two ways:
If you are using the Import Wizard, tell the Wizard that the field is text and the .CSV format will be preserved.
Use a VBA macro to import the .CSV file and have the macro perform the required formatting.
I am encountering what I believe to be a strange issue with Excel (in this case, Excel 2007, but maybe also Excel 2003, but don't have access to it as I write this).
I can reliably convert some server data over into a tab-delimited format (been doing this for years) and then open it using Excel - no issue.
However, what seems to be happening is if I have an html <table> inside one of the fields, it looks like Excel 2007 thinks it should be converting the table into rows and columns inside Excel (not what I want). As you might imagine, this throws off the entire spreadsheet.
So question is, is there any way to set up excel to NOT do this (perhaps some setting in Excel that pertains to reading tab delimited files), or am I missing something?
Thanks.
Save your file as .txt
Now open the file in excel using Drag and Drop (rather than double clicking your hookey .xls)
Slightly more work to open the file, but your tab text formatting will now be respected.
When you open the tab-delimited file, you are shown an import mapping dialog that lets you pick each columns' data type (date, text, currency, etc.). For the columns that have HTML data present, choose text. This will tell it basically to import as-is and not try to automatically parse the data into a derived format.
Excel 2003 does the same. I don't think there is a way to do it with a config because Excel finds delimiters in the html table and breaks the html in cells and columns as it does for the other columns.
If the column containing html is always the same, you can use JYelton suggestion of renaming the file as csv and record a small VBA macro to load the file selecting automatically the html column as text in the import mapping dialog and you load the file calling the macro instead of double-clicking on the file.
If nothing else, import it into OpenOffice.org Calc, save as an .xls file, then open in Excel.