Columns Order Changed Which Messed Up Cell References?
Jun 14, 2014
I am working on a spreadsheet with multiple tabs. The basic idea is that I will pull some raw data and paste it into my first tab, and then I can refresh all of the other tabs to reflect the newly imported data. I had a problem recently because when I attempted to pull the raw data because the number and order of columns had changed which messed up my cell references.
My other worksheets would contain cell references that said =table1!a1, and I would drag that formula down to have a list of all employee names for example. I would then filter data based on some of the other information in other columns. I was hoping that I could paste the newly exported data into that table and reapply the filters to view the new list of employees. How can I do this even if the order or amount of columns change? This spreadsheet will be used many times by different people so I need to make it scaleable in case the format of the exported data continues to change. I tried to change the raw data into a table and change the cell references to the column name, but it did not work when the order of the columns changed.
i have a Macro that gets rid of Hidden columns and Rows. but i kept getting REF# errors. so i changed the macro to Paste as values before the rest of the macro.
but then my Subtotal's dont work.
macro that only Paste the values of formulas that refer to a hidden cell?
Sub Prepare_Workbook()
Dim lp As Double Dim wsht As Worksheet Dim Buttons As Object Dim Calc As String
I would like to know whether its possible to fix a sheet to always be the second sheet in a work book no matter how many other sheets are added. Currently I have set up macros to add subsequent sheets before the last sheet, so that Sheets("Number 2") remain sheets(2). Is there some way I can lock the first two sheets so that when I reference them in my code as sheets(1) and sheets(2) it will reference the right sheets. Right now I have it set up so that Sheets("Number 2") can be renamed by the user, and data inputted on this sheet, but I require that the user not be able to move this sheet and the sheet preceding it.
I need a way to re-order an excel worksheets columns based on another worksheet.
Data is extracted from a database into excel however users can configure the columns in the initial system. to how they like This causes problems when the data is copied into an excel spreadsheet I have created as the data copied will not be in the same column order as is required.
How can i reorder the columns without physically having to cut and paste the columns to match?
I have attached a sample spreadsheet.
You will see on the spreadsheet that 'fixed columns' is the order that i require the data however 'variable columns' is not in the same order.
Each quarter should have the bars standing next to each other, i.e. Q1 2013 should stand right beside Q1 2012. Between these pairs of quarter there should be a small space and the the next pair, Q2 2013 and Q2 2012, should be. So how do I do this?
When I use data without stacking several info in the same bar, this isnt a problem but when I have this "aaa, bbb,ccc,ddd" in every bar, this gets messed up.
It is suppose to be that if the employee is "FT" and has worked >=4 years the return is 15. But if the employee is FT and has worked 2 years but less than 4 years then it is suppose to return 10 (these are days off) Or if the employee is FT and has worked 1 year, but less than 2 then it should return 5 days off. And all the others in the column get no days off.
I have tried to do it with structured references and with cell references I get a column of zeros!
This is my basic setup, each piece of equipment will have more than one routine to be performed:
Equipment Type Make Model Serial Location
To Be Performed Frequency Last Performed Performed By Next Due Date R1
[Code] ..........
I want to track changes on "Last Performed" and "Performed By" and, if changed, copy both values to a separate "log" sheet. In total, there could be up to 10 routines for each peice of equipment. That means I would need to track 20 columns for changes. I would like this check to be done on save because that ensures that the user is satisfied with their changes and keeps the log from being flooded. And lastly, it needs stored in the log sheet in a way that I can identify which piece of equipment it was for and which routine was done.
I have 2 colums like this. And I want whenever there is a reference like this âë. "some word" in column 2, to have the macro look up some word entry in column 1, find the text in the same row in column 2 and replace the âë. "some word" reference with the text found in column 2. (See attached, sheet 1 as it is, sheet 2 as I want it to be).
Sheet 1
another wordâë. "some word" awordìåôÜöñáóç bwordâë. "aword" some wordêÜðïéá ëÝîç
Sheet 2
another wordêÜðïéá ëÝîç awordìåôÜöñáóç bwordìåôÜöñáóç some wordêÜðïéá ëÝîç
I've been trying to find a way to square (num^2) a column of data without using references. I have a column of entered data in Excel 2007 and I know that I can manually enter =(num)^2 (num being a real number) for each single cell but I would love to know how to just enter that formula and apply it to the whole column, or just a short cut if available. I've not found anything helpful in the paste special, it would be nice if they had had a "raise to power," and other modes have just copied the number along with the formula. Every number in the consecutive descension are different.
As it stands I have to enter the data, then in another column use the power formula and reference the former column. Annoying when you have to do this more than once. I also realize I could just grab a calculator and do the math before entering into the cells, but this would be a learning experience for me in knowing how to actually do these kinds of tweaks.
I'm working in a workbook with several sheets, the first two collums of each sheet are =to the first sheet. some times I need to insert a line, but when I did that, I need to type again all formulas or drag the previous ones, and format again the cells. is there another way to do this?
I have trying to remove duplicate value for two columns which are not in order since long time. I have listed an example for the purpose. Two rows contains same information in different columns. I just wanted to have one row and remove the other with same information.
I want to use data validation to enforce that every cell is greater than the next cell in that column. I've tried using =OFFSET(A:A,1,0) thinking that it'll return in next one, but no luck.
AS you can see in the attached file, I have several collumns of data going form 2012 to 1992. I would like to know the quickest way to invert this so the data is presented 1992 to 2012.
1. first I export data and directly paste in the "RAWDATA" Sheet. 2.There are 50 columns and each has header like Clientname,date,Id,campaign,websitename,frequecncy etc. 3.Exported data does not have same order 4.so when I paste data in excel I check manually if orders are in correct or not?which takes my long time to review/manually check
Using macro or something else to review the order and if any discrepancy then raise error? Need Excel to check order of columns ?
I want to export some columns of my worksheet to a csv-file. But i don't want to export all of them, i just need for example: Columns B, D and G and inside the csv-file they should be in an different order like G, B, D .
I already thought about using "union" to select the specific columns, but i can't get this to work.
I have a sheet diplaying 5 columns of percentages which I need to rank in descending order, i.e. assign rank 1 to the largest percentage and 5 to the lowest. See the attached sheet.
I have a couple of Pivot Tables that I create each month summarising my Income and Expenditure. The only problem I have is making the columns appear in the correct order, i.e. where July is month1 through June(the following year) being month 12 to coincide with my financial year. Oddly enough last month (January) was fine, following December.
This month January and February appear in columns 1 & 2.
I have a number of statements within the Sheet Event Code (Excel 2007). Three times lately I have added a column and had to go back into the code and find all of the references that needed changing to reflect the new column.
I have been working on this for a couple of days and even tried EE, but to no success.
I have read that Defined Names / Constants should be used as often as possible, but even trying that, the VBA code errors out or "hangs up". Even within Bill Jalen's book (VBA and Macros 2007), there is nothing that addresses this, especially using Intersect.
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) Dim rng As Range
On Error GoTo mEnd Set rng = Sheets("Log").[F14:F10000] If Not Intersect(rng, Target) Is Nothing Then If Target = "" Then With Sheets("Log")
If the value of any cell in in column D is changed to "Closed", a message box will appear that says "Others must be notified when item is closed". In that message box, I want two buttons: Button 1 One is cancel and will undo the change. Button 2 will open MS Outlook with pre-filled email addresses and will attach the open worksheet. After the email is sent, to return to Excel.
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("B2")) Is Nothing Then Do_it End If
End Sub
Cell B2 contains an employee number. What I need to do is save some data for the employee number that was in cell B2 just before it was changed.
Example: If employee number "10" is entered in B2. Then the user were to change the employee number in cell B2 to "55" I would like to use the previous value "10" to do some VBA stuff with.
I have a large order spreadsheet with 3 date related columns. One for customer requested delivery date, one for factory quoted delivery date and one for actual delivery date.
I want to be able to set something up that if it gets near either the requested or quoted delivery date (by say a week), that the cell flags red so it's a visual reminder to check whether the order has been dispatched etc.
I have a table with one column of data. The data in this column repeats with 4 relevant pieces of information that I want to put in 4 different columns (fields) in a different spread sheet (or the same would work better and I would just delete the first column when done) keeping the same order the data is now in. The data currently repeats in a regular pattern (i.e. 123412341234 with no other data in between). I would like to do this with a macro. Could someone help write a macro that will do this
How would I reorder columns & tabs based on a form where the user can put them into order that they would like the columns? I forsee some type of form where the user can dsignate the order and then start a macro that will sort both the columns and tabs.
I have the following range of cells B2:Y3700. I want that when a value from 1 to 9999 is inserted in one cell of the above mentioned range, to copy the row number of that cell in the cell that is located in column Z and row is the number inserted in that cell. For example, if the number "1234" is inserted in one cell from range B2:Y3700, to enter in cell Z1234 the number of the row where is located the respective cell. At same the time is very important to me to not permit to insert the same number in B2:Y3700, so i believe that is need a macro code to check the cell from column z to see if value already exist .
I set up formulas to count text characters in a range of cells. I'm tracking attendance and payments for a small yoga studio.
All I need to do is count "Y"s for prepaid attendance and "DI"s for drop-ins. I have the formulas working but they are absolute so inserting a row will break my sheet.
Is it possible to save a workbook whenever any changes are made to any cell in a specific column? The reason - I'm putting an excel workbook out on a network drive for 4-5people to share. The sheet contains work items which are imported every 4 hours... Column A contains the status.
I want to save the file every time anybody changes a status to prevent multiple users from working on the same item. I realize that I could build a form then load each workitem into the form, then apply the save to a change event on the field/control, but that's something for next week - I need to get this out the door, bare bones, as soon as possible.
I have to find the union of 2 columns in excel and club those 2 columns into a single column with values in the increasing order.eg: column 1- 0 2 4.. , column 2- 1,3,5.. final result in column 3 should be 0 1 2 3 4 5...plz let me know the code for this that i can run in VB editor(- excel 2007)
