Excel cell content into multiple rows into another sheet - excel

I have a requirement in excel where i want to copy each text that ends with pulistop into a row of another sheet. ex:
Setting up the configuration.
Creating environment.
Pushing the tasks.
Now assume that above text is in one cell and i want to copy each sentence that ends with pulistop into individual rows of a new sheet. like below.
Setting up the configuration.
Creating environment.
Pushing the tasks.
Please help me in doing this as i have many no. of sheets which needs this modification.
Thanks in advance.
Chakri.

Check if this can be useful for you:
Copy the cell(s) into clipboard (Ctrl+C).
Paste into Notepad or similar text editor. Note: in Notepad the lines will appear next to each other, but nevermind, the line jumps are still there.
Replace in text editor all " (double quotes) with nothing.
Copy the whole text of the editor.
Paste into Excel.
This works in my case. If you have many cells like this next to each other, with this method you can process all at once with the same effort. Will this work for you?

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Txt document data doesn't format correctly in Excel

Disclaimer - this should be a very simple task, but clearly everything I thought I knew about excel is false.
I'm trying to copy and paste data from a txt document to an excel document. An example of a line I'm trying to copy from the txt doc is: 4512544425701264.
However, when I paste into excel it pastes as 4512544425701260 but displays in the cell as 4.51254E+15. This happens for each line of data.
I've tried numerous ways to fix this problem none have worked including:
Copied the txt data into a Microsoft Word document, then tried
pasting into the excel.
Resized the cell.
Tried each cell formatting option.
Tried opening the txt doc in Excel, even progressed through the text import wizard. Interestingly, I noticed the data preview on page 3 displayed the data correctly. But after proceeding past the importer, the data loaded with the same problem.
Tried on another PC.
Copied and pasting one line at a time.
The only solution I have found is manually typing out each line, however this is highly unpractical due to the large amount of data.
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
To show full number rightclick on cell, choose "Format cells..". In "Number" tab choose "Number" category and set "Decimal places" to zero.
Unfortunately excel lets to put only 15 digits as a number. Every additional number is converted to 0, that is why your number 4512544425701264 is converted to 4512544425701260
If you don't need this number to be used in calculation, you can format cells to text format before pasting:
Source on digits limitation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/troubleshoot/excel/last-digits-changed-to-zeros
In Excel, this is expected behavior (it's Microsoft, after all). I have encountered it frequently when dealing with UPC codes, for example. In order to avoid this, format the cells you are trying to copy this data to as "Text" BEFORE you copy any data over.
Copy your data (CTRL+C), then select the first cell in the range where the data is going, then paste only the values. This should take care of it.
If for some reason you still get scientific notation, provided the cells have the "Text" formatting, you can select that cell, click in the Formula bar and hit ENTER.
When you paste into Excel, try calling "Text import wizard" in the Paste Options. This will allow you to set delimiter (in case of CSV) and later data type of a column where you can select "Text" which will tell wizard not try to convert your data into numbers.

Copy paste from excel to notepad++ issue

I am trying to copy data from excel and paste it in Notepad++.
When pasting in NPP, it is automatically inserting carriage return and the cursor goes on to the next line.
Is there any way to avoid this ? I want the cursor to remain at the end of the text after pasting.
If you are copying data from a single cell, you could do one of the following:
Double-click on the cell and then copy its contents.
Select the cell you wish to copy from, and copy its contents from the Formula Bar.
If this does not solve your problem and removing the new line after every paste is annoying you, you could also consider switching to Google Sheets or Excel Online and copying data from there. They do not seem to add a new line.

Excel breaking lines where it shouldn't

I have an excel File filled with data which often doesn't fit in one line. Obviously these lines are getting split into two. Working as intended so far. But sometimes Excel decides there is a need for a line break even tough the text does fit on one line.
My guess would be that Excel sets a margin for its cells, but how can I modify it to prevent this from happening?
WordWrap a.k.a. Wrap Text is your friend:
Here you can see more.
If you are copy pasting.
Paste the desired object within the box with the blinking cursor (Easy).
This will paste the contents only within a block.
if the documents from which you are copying the content consists of line breaks for new paragraphs then excel takes those line breaks as new rows/columns.
for your problems if your document has made split cells for the content, Try
Selecting the columns you wish to combine together.
then use the formula.
=CONCAT(CELL A,CELL B)
Hope this helps you.

Copy cells from excel sheet and paste it to a DB query Sikuli

I am new to Sikuli. I need to copy data from excel sheets and paste them to a DB query using sikuli script. And how can I iterate among the excel cells to copy and paste the data repeatedly.
These data needs to copied and pasted one after the other.
It might be easier to copy all of the cells at once, then paste them one by one.
once Sikuli has opened Excel, you could do something like:
type(Key.HOME, KeyModifier.CTRL) #takes you to cell A1
type("a", KeyModifier.CTRL) #select all
type("c", KeyModifier.CTRL) #copy to clipboard
fromExcel = Env.GetClipboard().strip() #get clipboard contents into Sikuli, without leading or trailing white space
cells = fromExcel.split("/n") #split each cell into list on newline
#go to the destination app, maybe using App.open("nameOfYourApp") if it's not open yet, or App.focus("nameOfYourApp") if it is already open
for cell in cells: #use python to iterate through your list
#navigate to the line or cell where you want to paste
paste(cell)
Would something like that be of help?
Rather than providing a specific approach let's understand the options you have.
Simulate user keyboard actions (like it is described here by #autoKarma).
Excel sheet having a very specific structure allows you to detect some key points like first column and first row and then calculate other cells locations based on them.
You can try and use one of the Python Excel API libraries to access the excel sheet directly via API. If you only need to read the document and to to amend it, I believe this will be fairly easy to do.
Note: In all cases you will obviously have to think of how do you bring yourself to the point where you have an open Excel sheet on your screen and how to dispose of it when done.

Pasting the same text copied from different sources behaves differently in Excel

Now this is a weird one
We have a project where we are reading some data from an Excel spreadsheet. Obviously this data has to be in a certain format. Some of the fields consists of numbers, but should be treated as text.
To stop Excel from being "smart" and change the cell types, I have set the format in the respective cells to 'text'.
Now here is the problem: some of the numbers we're pasting have spacing between the digits. When we remove the white spaces, Excel change the cell format to 'standard' and turn the text into the 2.42805E+11 format.
BUT: this only happens when the text is copied from some sources. If a paste a number copied from a textbox, everything turn out fine when we edit the spaces. If we copy the exact same number from a web page, Excel change cell format.
I thought copy-paste would be copy-paste, but obviously some formating or something gets along on the ride.
Does anyone know what causes this, or know have to get Excel to stop being "smart" with the formating?
EDIT: I found a somewhat peculiar solution to this. I recorded a macro that uses the 'Paste Special' function with text as parameter, and overrided ctrl-v with it (in that particular spreadsheet). Works like a charm! Feels a bit "hacky", though. Can anyone think of a scenario where this will backfire?
Try using the Edit Paste Special command, it will give you some controls to choose what to do with the data.
For a taste of the complexity of what is really going on underneath, look in MSDN about Clipboard Formats. In short, it isn't all Excel's fault...
A common user trick copying data out of excel is to paste it into Notepad and cut it back to the clipboard, which flattens all the formatting down to plain text. It won't help you for pasting data into Excel, however.
Copy-paste in windows retains formatting. One way to get rid of the formatting is to paste the text into e.g. notepad first, then select and copy it again. This loses any copied formatting.

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