File Format Is Not Valid
Aug 3, 2005
i have a customer (im a computer tech, but excel is not my specialty) that has a weird problem with her most important file. She meant well, but tried to back up a 2.6 MB file to a floppy disk, and after it told her the disk was full, she was unable to open the file again in excel. (File Format Is Not Valid) It will, however, open in word, with the data there. Its in an unusable format, as there were 12 different worksheets (one for every month), all on the one page of MS Word. Better than nothing, but still will take weeks to reenter properly. I searched for a repair utility and had one that seemed to work, but only put a "0" in column A row 8. A far cry from what we are looking for. Ive also run a disk recovery program in the hopes of finding an older version of the file, but came up empty.
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Sep 20, 2013
I saved my worksheet in vba .xlsx and for some reason, when I go to the folder that it's saved in and try to open the file I get an error message saying "excel cannot open the file 'PO Acks fo 09-20-2013.xlsx' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file"
This is weird because I have another file that I save right before this that opens just fine without an error. Getting frustrating. When I go into the ~Users folder it shows as an excel file and saved as .xlsx.
Where would the link be missing?
Here is the code
Code:
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:= _
"G:PURCHASINGSupplier ServicesGroupSharePublic~UsersPO Acks for " & Format$(Date, "mm-dd-yyyy") & ".xlsx"
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I have around 30k data. which is in invalid format.
Ex: 12987654321vinay kk 876543219
32567456789 kkccjhg fo 345678921
I want to convert this into correct format as below with start letter from MOD, 987654321,, vinay, kk,87654219
MOD,567456789, , kkccjhg, fo,345678921
I want to know which are formulas I have to use to get this info in correct format.
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Please refer to attached spreadsheet
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I have attached just a small example.
I get this data monthly and it usually covers thousands of rows and therefore impractical to change manually.
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PFOLIOA/C CODEACCT NAME CURCODE DESCRIPTNNARRATIVE DATE ENTRY DATE CASH VALUE De--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABA001AUDCUST NOMINEES AUDINT0005 SALE 39727.08 INTECH BAL GR FD C29-Dec-082-Jan-09-27690.57N
This is what i want to achieve
PFOLIOA/C CODEACCT NAME CURCODE DESCRIPTNNARRATIVE DATE ENTRY DATE CASH VALUE De--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABA001AUDCUST NOMINEES AUDINT0005 SALE 39727.08 INTECH BAL GR FD C29-Dec-082-Jan-09-27690.57N
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=COUNT(F156,F152,F148,F144,F140,F136,F132,F128, F124,F120,F116,F112,F108,F104,F100,F96, F92,F88,F84,F80,F76,F72,F68,F64,F60,F56,F52,F48,F44,F40,F36,F32,F28,F24,F20,F16,F12,F8,F4)
Excel tells that it will accept up to 255 arguments in a COUNT function, but it'll only let me include:
=COUNT(F156,F152,F148,F144,F140,F136,F132,F128,F124,F120,F116,F112,F108,F104,F100,F96,F92,F88,F84,F80,F76,F72,F68,F64,F60,F56,F52,F48,F44,F40)
I have to use this exact same formula as a SUM function as well, but am having the same problem. Neither SUM or COUNT will take all the arguments.
I've attached the file. The tabs in red are the worksheets that won't accept the formula. The green tabs worked fine (they all had less cells to include than the sheets in red.)
01-09-14 RouteSheets SLO.xls‎
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I have attached screenshot of the data (filename: CSV Issue.JPG).
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[Code]....
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