.pip Files - Retaining Personal Settings
Mar 30, 2007
I am shortly to receive my new work laptop, but am aware that the new install of Excel (2003 v11, SP2) will naturally be without my custom 'cosmetic' settings.
By this, I mean that my choices of which toolbars are available, the order in which verious icons on the toolbars appear, the text tags under each icon, and of course my own user-defined icons (used to run my own macros).
I have some experience with .pip files and understand that these files are supposed to retain all your 'cosmetic' settings. But I've never been that sure a) how to use them b) if one can edit them directly c) whether copying them from my current computer to my new one will mean my settings are loaded etc. etc.
So, I wondered if anyone out there could give me some guidance on how I could successfully migrate my own 'cosmetic' preferences to my new install of Excel.
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Jan 12, 2010
So i have a macro that i wrote that willclean up these datafeeds that i get. i want to be able to use them for each spreadsheet. So the first bit i tried was saving a personal.xls file in the xlstart folder in XP (MSE 2003) . That would automatically pull up but when i tried to run the macro on other worksheets i get the generic 400 error.
the next thing i tried was copying the macro to a module and adding function tags and taking out the sub tags. i then "saved" that in the addins folder then tried assiging my custom button to is through the macros prompt. When i gave the title box the absolute path to the addins folder with clean.xla cited it said it was invalid, so i tried saving it just as clean.xla expecting it to locate the file there anyway.
this far each time i try to run the macro globally it says it cant find the current sheetname!macroname So i must be missing a step somewhere... can anyone give advice, i have searched the forum and couldnt find a similar problem for solutions.
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Aug 25, 2006
I am trying to use a shell command to dig into a specified directory (and ideally all sub-directories) and open every pdf file and re-save with security settings changed (adding a password to prevent printing). I can't seem to get the shell command to run from where it is:
Option Explicit
Sub OpenPDFFilesAndSave()
'opens every pdf file in a directory
Dim FSO As Object, Fld As Object, Fil As Object
Dim MainFolderName As String, i As Integer
Dim RetVal As Variant
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
MainFolderName = "C:Test"
Set Fld = FSO.GetFolder(MainFolderName)
For Each Fil In Fld.Files
i = i + 1
RetVal = Shell("C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 7.0
_&AcrobatAcrobat.exe MainFolderName & " " & Fil. Name")
Next
'have to add save the file, and change the print settings but not figured that out yet
End Sub
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Sep 28, 2011
I am having trouble getting Excel 2007 on my work computer to save as .xlsx by default.
I have opened the Office Button > Excel Options > Save > Save files in this format and selected "Excel Workbook (*.xlsx)," and if I save as before closing Excel then it works perfect and saves the file as .xlsx. However if I close Excel, re-open it later and save a new file the default "Save as type:" is "Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls)" and if I open the save options again the "Save files in this format" option is reverted back to "Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls)."
I have finally overcome the [Compatibility Mode] issue by saving a file named "Book.xltx" (not "Book1.xltx") in the two default locations "C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12XLSTART" and "D:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication DataMicrosoftExcelXLSTART" (we use the D: drive at work for personal files). I thought this would solve the save as issue but it hasn't. I have also changed the "Save files in this format" before saving the .xltx files in the locations to apply the settings to those specific files but that hasn't worked.
It is on my work computer so I am limited in what settings I can change because they have them pretty well locked down.
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The following line of VBA code executes properly if machine settings are US English, but throws a "Run-time error '1004': Application-defined or object-defined error" ? ...
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May 14, 2006
I am starting to use formulas and I am constantly amazed at the power of Excel. I am trying to write a spreadsheet and I'm having a problem getting Excel to do what I want; I have 2 column, each cell in Column 1 will have a numeric value changed daily. I want Column 2 to retain the highest value that has been added. i.e. If I type 4 in A1,(for example), on Monday, then B2 will read 4, if I type 5 in A1 the next day, then B2 will change to 5, but if I type a value less than 5 in A1, then I still want B2 to read 5. The value will be input daily for an indefinite period and needs to be user friendly. I can't work out how to achieve this.
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I am creating a worksheet that uses a series of if formulas to determine the correct cell to use in a table outside the printing/viewing area. Something along the lines of "if X, Y, and z happens then use what is in cell AY34". I have the formula working, so I can get it to go pick up what is in the cell I want.
The problem I am having is that there is a heading to the text in cell AY34 that is bold, but the rest of the text in the cell is not bold. Is there any way to drag the formatting along with the data and not just the values?
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I am trying to use an "IF" statement to either apply a formula or retain the last value of the cell, is there a way to accomplish this.
E.g. = IF( A1=B1, "retain last value", D1)
last value = the value of the cell prior either to A1 or B1 being changed.
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I have a spreadsheet for recording property maintenance. All properties are grouped by a city zone in a specific colour, and there is conditional formatting on this. Also drop down lists for properties, contractors etc.
This all worked well, until I needed to start inserting rows. All the conditional formatting and lists didn't replicate on the newly inserted rows.
Also, we need to assign a unique reference number to each row but currently manually inputting them - very inefficient way of doing this as they will inevitably get mixed up and confused as rows are removed.
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I am using the VLOOKUP function in a cell, however, I would like the value returned to also retain the text format from the table (eg colour and bold). I have attached a simple example (to demonstrate the point) where cell B14 should have the word 'French' in bold red.Example.xlsx
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Nov 28, 2008
I have a template A that has lines on it, sometimes I want to overlay template B which has other lines on it, however when I past template B on top of A the formats of A are overridden by the formats of template B.
Is there any way of "overlaying" B on top of template A without losing the template A formats?
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I have the following code below. I would like to amend the code to retain the previous entry in the input box and amend this if the need arises
Code:
Sheets("data").Select
Range("B2").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = InputBox("Amend details if different from data in inputbox")
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I have cells that contain number that have dashes
For example
Cell M contains the number 001-1234
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I want to combine the three cells and have the number look like this
001-1234-1234567-891
Is there a formula that will do this
I have tried the Concatenate to combine the cells but it just combines the numbers and won't let me format the number as I want it.
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I have created a multiple choice quiz maker that randomizes the questions and responses. This means that the quiz questions/responses must be copied and pasted each time a new quiz is generated. But in doing so, Excel loses formatting (such as super and sub scripting) and some special characters (like pi, alpha, the degree symbol).
Is there a way to get such things to copy properly from cell to cell, sheet to sheet, using Excel?
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Coworker was sent a spreadsheet with a singe column of loan numbers; some start with zeros, some don't. But every single cell ends with a "^". (Shift key and 6)
i.e. 0087459832^
782360134^
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I am in a situation where I have to copy-n-paste text from a webpage into Excel. When I do this, the pasted text keeps the formatting of the webpage. The font is the webpage font. The background color is the background color of the webpage. Etc.
I know that I can paste just the text itself, without any of the formatting, by right-clicking, selecting "Paste Special...", and then selecting "Text" instead of "HTML". I am wondering if there is an option somewhere that will do this automatically when I hit CTRL-V instead of requiring me to pull up the Paste Special dialog box.
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I made a spreadsheet and used pivot tables to summarise the data by project numbers (Row field of pivot table). I deleted the orginal data and copied in data from another spreadsheet. When I look at the detail in row field (click on the down arrow of the project button in the row field of the pivot table) it still shows the original project numbers plus the new project numbers. The data displayed in the pivot table looks like it only refers to the new projects but is not correct. Any ideas why the old project numbers still appear? Refreshing the data doesn't help. The only way I can get the correct data is to delete the pivot table and then recreate it.
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I have a workbook linked to an external source that is refreshed once a week. All the refreshed data is populated in column A. User defined text is typed into columns B,C,D and E. As the report increases or reduces in column A the text in B,C,D and E becomes out of sync with its original data in column A. Is there a way of keeping the data and tagging it somehow?
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I realize that there are 100 posts asking this same question but I believe this question is unique. My actual data if far more complex, but I have attached a simple workbook to illustrate my problem. It is my understanding that the following code will generate a unique list of values. However, it does not work if an AdvancedFilter has been used previously in the code.
Sheets("Sheet1"). Range("B1:B6").AdvancedFilter _
Action:=xlFilterCopy, _
CopyToRange:=Sheets("Sheet2").Range("E1"), _
Unique:=True
I have been able to solve this problem by adding "CriteriaRange:=vbNullString" to the above code.
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B1:B6").AdvancedFilter _
Action:=xlFilterCopy, _
CriteriaRange:=vbNullString, _
CopyToRange:=Sheets("Sheet3").Range("E1"), _
Unique:=True
Here is my question: Do you need to reset the value of "CriteriaRange" each time you use AdvancedFilter, and if so, is setting CriteriaRange to vbNullString the best way to do so.
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See attached. 3ColumnSort.xls
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I have a workbook that has multiple tabs with data already entered. I have also built a series of tables/forumlas to display summaries of the data. My desire is to be able to copy this table with all formulas/formatting/cell sizes to the various existing tabs.
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Jan 3, 2008
I am linking a row of data in worksheet x to a column of data in worksheet Y and would like to be able to drag down the cell reference in worksheet Y in this way:
=MIN(RuleofOriginData!AR$4:AR$63)
=MIN(RuleofOriginData!AS$4:AS$63)
=MIN(RuleofOriginData!AT$4:AT$63)
However, when I drag it down, the formula is automatically absolute for both the row and the column number instead of just the row as I indicated. Can anyone tell me why this occurs and whether there is a way to fix it?
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I am currently trying to add some functionality to an Excel workbook and I have a combo box that I am unable to get the values to populate. On the same worksheet I have a command button. Here is the code I am using to attempt to populate the combo box:
Private Sub cmdSendSave_Click()
Call SendSave
End Sub
Private Sub bxLocation_Change()
With bxLocation
.AddItem "Mt. Hope"
.AddItem "Summersville"
.AddItem "Huntington"
.AddItem "Pulaski"
.AddItem "Coastal Bend"
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Jun 4, 2014
I want to pull data from my excel file (using VBA) into Ms Word. I created a template in Word and wrote a macro to do this, it worked, however, anytime a new row is inserted or deleted in my excel spreadsheet my macro produces wrong results in my Ms Word template because the cell position has shifted, thereby producing the wrong result. How do i make it that my result remain the same when new row is added to my spreadsheet.
Example:
Excel row1: vicky 528
row2: sam 532
row3: john 092
row4: Own 211 word template: 092
This is what happen next:
Excel (New row added) Macro: ThisDocument.ScreenedPatients.Caption = wb.Sheets("CSAs").Cells(16, 1)
row1: pat 542
row2: vicky 528
row3: sam 532
row4: john 092
row5: Own 211 resulting Word template(running macro): word template: 532
But I want John to automatically go on the Word template without going into macro to change it all the time when a new row is added.
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Apr 6, 2014
I have data from Columns A to D. I want to do the
following:
1. Look for duplicates in all column A
2. For each duplicate found in column A, check if all values in column B are also duplicate.
3. If the condition in (2) is satisfied, compare column D for all the rows; select the row with the minimum value in column D, and delete the other rows.
For example:
A B C D
Row1: Abby 04/01/2014 7:00PM 0.98437
Row2: Sam 04/01/2014 9:00PM 0.35627
Row3: Abby 04/04/2014 7:00PM 0.68932[code]....
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Oct 26, 2013
Original table:
Column1
Column2
Column3
Column4
AAA
DDD
A1
X123, Y123, Z123
[Code] .......
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Feb 28, 2014
I have found this code by searching witch is perfect
Code:
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Cells.Interior.ColorIndex = 0
With Target 'With the cell that was selected,
.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 8
.EntireColumn.Interior.ColorIndex = 8
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
The point is that i want to retain the previous formatting of cells when i select another cell. And also i would like to create a switch to turn the Worksheet_SelectionChange event on and off. The tricky part is here i guess, becouse i would like when turned off to retain the previous formatting also.
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