I want excel to recall a certain PDF document and insert it into the worksheet if certain cells match the allocated PDF info.
I've tried using the object insert but it only gives me an un-editable formula which of course is:
=EMBED(" Forms.CommandButton.1")
Which does not work.
I then moved on to trying to nest IF & AND statements, but that doesn't get me very far, seeing that I don't know how, or whether it is possible to add a PDF document into that formula.
I've tried using hyperlinks but it seems that the hyperlinks are set and do not work with IF or AND statements.
Any suggestions or solutions are welcome.
Thanks!
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i am trying to have VBA open up a specific word document (this document is protected but has boxes where you are able to edit text). i will then need to fill out said word documents editable areas with variables in the excel document. i have no idea where to start with this code and was posting to see if this is possible and how i could do it.
Additional note. Would it be easier to have vba create a whole new word document in the code so it can just add in all the text?
Since there isn't any code. I'm not sure what stage you're at in this but, from how I read your question you have two ways to do this. Either have your vba code in the word document that opens an Excel file to read cells or have the excel document create a word document with information already filled out. I would recommend using Word to read Excel.
This Question has information about setting fill-able values in Word. There are also a lot of resources out there to find out how to get cell values and open excel documents using VBA.
All this being said. I would say you should probably look for alternatives to all of this. Such as powerapps connecting to an excel file or change your excel file to a SQLExpress database to use that in finding data. The reason I recommend this is because it's much more scalable.
I have an excel template that has preset formulas, then have my wpf application fills in data in other sheets then the preset formulas takes the data from the other sheet and shows it on the main page.
The problem is when I automatically PDF the excel most formulas go through but other's give me a System.Object[][] or some other errors. But when I access the excel file with the dataset it works.
The difference between the formulas that go through and the ones that don't are the ones that have an if() statement to remove all non zeroes in a range like this.
=TEXTJOIN("
", TRUE, TEXT(IF(Details!O:O>0,Details!O:O,""), "HH:MM"))
Functions like this works:
=TEXTJOIN("
",TRUE,Details!D:D)
How do I get Spire.xls to PDF the right format?
As you tested the Excel file and found it working fine, the problem is likely located inside the Spire rendering.
You can of course report a bug over there but that might not get resolved instantly.
You may want to try applying a number format to the cells for zero values instead of using that if part in the formula.
Something like this could do when writing with ClosedXML if implemented correctly by Spire:
worksheet.Cell(row, column).Style.NumberFormat.Format = "#,##0;[Red]-#,##0;\"\";#";
Formating possibilities are somewhat documented by Microsoft, take a look over there.
I´m currently building an excel userform, where you fill out textboxes in the form which then writes those inputs into excel sheet cells. After the form is being closed, that specific sheet is being saved as a pdf. Now since I don´t want to add the keywords in the metadata of the pdf after saving it, I have to add keywords to the excel file before the saving process, so that the pdf uses those same keywords. Until now, I gave those keywords with the code
ActiveWorkbook.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Keywords") = "example"
This worked pretty well. But it would be way easier and more automated, if I could fetch certain information, which is entered in the form, and use those as keywords. I have tried that with:
ActiveWorkbook.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Keywords") = UserForm1.TextBox1.Value
but that does not work. Does anyone know if there is a mistake or another way to do it?
THANK YOU!
I've been saving Google Sheets to Excel without any problems for a while. These sheets have always successfully saved and opened in Excel with the importrange function. However, recently it hasn't been successfully saving correctly.
It used to just have the static value (e.g, 40). There used to be an IFERROR in the first cell in the header row but now it exists in every single cell.
E.g, each cell would have something like this:
=IFERROR(__xludf.DUMMYFUNCTION(importrange(blahblah)),"40").
DUMMYFUNCTION throws an error and "40" is returned as a result. but "40" is a string, not an integer which messes up all my formulas.
I also know this isn't an Excel issue because OpenOffice is doing the same thing with the file.
I'm pretty sure this would be a bug because why would it be working for months and then suddenly stop working?
What should I do?
I'm thinking it's a bug too.
Workarounds
On Excel
Copy and paste as values only the ranges with IFERROR(__xludf.DUMMYFUNCTION(..., then use Excel's UI tools to convert numbers shown as text to numbers.
Selectively remove quotes on the IFERROR second argument of the cells causing problems
Remove =IFERROR(__xludf.DUMMYFUNCTION(),"value") except value (we could use Excel's built-in FIND & REPLACE for this)
On Google Sheets
Use Copy > Paste as values only on the range areas having formulas with non-compatible functions like IMPORTRANGE, QUERY, FILTER, etc.
If you only need the values, download it as CSV instead of XLSX
IMPORTANT
In order to help to prioritize this issue, send feedback to Google. To do this open a Google Sheets spreadsheet, click on Help > Report a problem, then fill the feedback form and submit it.
Related stuff
I posted 5 small articles about this in Spanish. You could find them listed on https://www.rubenrivera.mx/p/descargar-hcg-excel.html.
We accidentally created a workaround for this bug with a different sheet that was just set up like this.
This works when you IMPORTRANGE into another Google Sheet. We are doing it into a Google Sheet with a single worksheet - haven't tried it with multiple.
It's going to sound a little nuts but it works for us.
In the first cell of your import range put a hyperlink in the original document you are importing from. This is in the first cell of the import range. We linked it to a worksheet in the original document. It has worked and failed with an external link. With an external link it worked when I linked it to an internal link, then changed it. But when I deleted the cell and just straight linked it to an external URL it didn't work.
Then #timbo was right - put data validation in. This can be in part of the document that isn't being imported into the second sheet. I put it in the first line of the import range but outside what I was importing. It might have to be the first line. I just put a date in one cell, then in the next cell data > data validation > then choose that one date as the data range.
For aesthetics I have hidden the first row in one Google Sheet I am importing into. In another I made the first cell link the title of the sheet and put the data validation outside the import range. Both of these work.
Let me know if this works for you.
Until this bug is fixed, a workaround is to put a data validation (Data > Data Validation) on the imported data (Any kind of data validation will do).
I am trying to use a VBA macro (for Office 2003) to do the following:
In Excel, the user will select a range of cells
In Word the user will call the macro (via a button or shortcut) to insert the selected Excel range as an embedded object
The code is not the problem so far, my problems are:
Given that the user is working in a Word document, most likely will use the same fonts in Excel
When Excel range was inserted in Word and they both use the same font names and sizes, they look different inside Word ( fonts look as if they stretched a bit)
Styling Cell borders in Excel is not like styling cell borders in Word
I do appreciate any advice on this regards
When you paste as an Excel Worksheet Object, what Word is actually displaying is an image created by Excel. Notice that you can't select any text, for example. Word appears to be distorting the image ever so slightly, so that the fonts won't line up.
Edit: I can't speak for Office 2003, but Office 2007 defaults to the HTML format using PasteExcelTable. The exact macro statement is
Selection.PasteExcelTable False, False, False
This will give formatting that is compatible with Word, but unfortunately the data is not live and won't get updated as the spreadsheet is changed. If your requirements don't include live update, try this method.
Is it possible to have the macro creating a table out of the cells (as normally happens when you manually copy them), rather than inserting an Excel Object.
The best visual results results can be achieved by using Selection.CopyPicture(Appearance, Format); however, you will not be able to edit the data inside Word as you will only get a picture.