I have a CSV file that is written to disk by a separate process. Instead of having to copy and paste the contents of that CSV file each time I open my spreadsheet into one of the sheets I want to see if I can automate this.
So can have the contents of an Excel sheet within my spreadsheet automatically load the contents of the CSV each time it is opened?
Import a text file by connecting to it
https://support.office.com/en-NZ/article/import-or-export-text-txt-or-csv-files-5250ac4c-663c-47ce-937b-339e391393ba#bmimport_data_from_a_text_file_by_conne
Power Query
https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Connect-to-an-Excel-or-CSV-file-Power-Query-fc377b2e-a742-4dea-8d7c-8e0f18c8e765?ui=en-US&rs=en-NZ&ad=NZ#__importing_data_from
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I generate some csv files using a script. Next I manually convert those csv files into excel tables using the import wizard in excel based on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Pxil4jVO4
Is it possible to do this automatically - e.g. by calling an excel importer from command line - so I don't need to open excel and do all the manual work?
I can open the csv file directly in Excel but its not formatted as a table. E.g. this csv file:
a,b,c
a,b,c
results in this Excel sheet:
I would like each letter to be in a separate column.
I have looked at this:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/370ee470-f2cd-4f30-a167-b106dd51d47a/powershell-convert-csv-to-xlsx?forum=winserverpowershell
but its an awful lot of boiler plate code from create a simple table.
Add an extra line to your CSV file to tell Excel what the seperator is. Add the following line to the top of your CSV file:
sep=,
The easiest way, without close and edit your file - you can choose which separator you want in Excel 2010-2016 go to DATA, Text To Columns, choose Delimited, then choose your separator Comma (or other) and you will see changes immediately in the "Data preview", then click FInish.
Once you have the format you wanted, you simply save the document and it will be permanent.
I have CSV files that will be getting automatically updated with data from another program.
In the same directory will be xlsx files with the same information. What is the best way to ensure that the updated data from the CSV automatically matches the xlsx whenever I have to open the xlsx in Excel?
The reason I can't just use CSV is because the xlsx has a custom graphical header that needs to get printed along with the data.
Would like to ask if how to convert a .csv file generated from macro to .txt file?
I have this Excel macro that gathers data from the website and create a table and output it to a .csv file, but for some reason I wasn't able to copy its contents to an existing .csv file as it returned special characters instead of the correct output.
Please help me, with the program I am currently doing.
A csv file is a text file. U can just change the extension like this
Name "C:\\**\\a.csv" As "C:\\**\\a.txt"
I have a csv files containing iterations that will be imported into HP Quality Center and used to perform automated testing.
Some of the data in these files must be updated every month and I have created a macro for each to do this.
I cannot keep the macro and the csv on the one workbook as QC does not allow anything other than csv files to be imported (not that I know of).
I realise I can import the macro each time but there are many csv files and many macros.
Is there some format or work-around that would allow me to keep the macro on the csv file, so when I open it I can just hit Alt+F8 and run the macro?
Save your macros in your personal workbook (personal.xslb), rather than in the individual data files. Then they will be available to run your updates on the csv files without being stored in the files.
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.