I had a problem today where I had to make some changes to a couple of large text files (100mb+). It seems that the File System Object (Microsoft Scripting Runtime) can only read or write at any one time so I ended up writing this. It opens two text streams at once , one to read and one to write and creates a revised file. Not very exciting but I thought somebody might find it useful ...
Sub ChangeTextFile()
' Manipulating a text file with VBA
' Loops through text file and creates revised one
' This code requires a reference (Tools > References) to Microsoft Scripting Runtime
Dim FSO As FileSystemObject
Dim FSOFile As TextStream, FSOFileRevised As TextStream
Dim FilePath As String, FilePathRevised As String
FilePath = "c: est.txt" ' create a test.txt file or change this
' adds "_Revised" to your file name
FilePathRevised = Left(FilePath, Len(FilePath) - 4) & "_Revised" & Right(FilePath, 4)........................
I have the following text file. I need to show in excel as follows:
1st column : Company No eg 006 2nd column : Expense Type eg 060 3rd column : Agreement Type eg HIP 4th column : Agreement Number Columns C&D added together. 5th column: Tot Def Expense
The breakdown above should be at an agreement level.
I am working on a file that is going to import and then manipulate data from another excel file automatically. I would like this to be as smooth as possible and I am running into a problem. The file I am importing the data from is password protected, so I am opening it in read-only. Also, the file contains links to other excel files.
What I would like to do is indicate in the code to open the file in read-only format so that the user doesn't get a message box asking for the password. Also, is there a way to suppress the message box about updating the links? I have tried application.displayalerts = false but that didn't solve my problem.
I have a macro that takes input from the user and replaces certain text on several worksheets. One of the inputs is a username in the format of firstname.lastname. I need to manipulate this input such that the dot is removed and the first twelve characters only are used, all in upper case. e.g. Michael.Jackson would become MICHAELJACKS
I know how to use cells.replace to replace the text but I don't know how to use a formula to manipulate the inputbox text before I do the replace.
I have a variable COMTXT that loads (via loop) several short lines of text to form a "mouthful" of comments together. But have 2 issues with it.
1- I need to add a carriage return after loading each short line of text. [code] Module1.COMTXT = Module1.COMTXT + Sheets(3). Cells(Module1.COMCODE, 1) [?CODE]I have try'd [& vbCrLf &] in many syntax's to no avail.
2- When displaying COMTXT to a sheet, its too big for the cell ! and not able to enlarge the cell without major disortion to rest of sheet. How do I acheive this and allow the text to display like a textbox or label, covering many cells and rows.
I have an existing spreadsheet with a column of strings (actually VIN numbers). These numbers correllate to a bunch of text files, that can exist in one of three folders (UsernameDesktop1, 2, or 3) on my desktop. What I need the macro to do is:
1) get the filename from A2 (A1 is a heading row) 2) Find the appropriate text file in one of the three folders 3) Put the folder name into I2 4) Scan the text file for some strings, and copy some data that follows those strings into J2:O2 (I can handle programming this) 5) Close the text file 6) repeat above for the remainder of filenames (about 1800 files)
Got a slight problem; I am making a "worker-plan", where you should be able to write a name on one file and have it updated (removed) from the equivalent columns on another file automatically. Here's an example with two separate projects:
Project 1 before and after changes: Attachment 257366 Attachment 257367
Project 2 before and after changes: Attachment 257368 Attachment 257369
You can see here how I intended it to work. When one worker is moved from Project 1 to Project 2, that worker should also be removed from those weeks in Project 1. The previous worker from Project 2 should also be removed from those weeks (in Project 2).
Are there any formulas that can make this work automatically? All week numbers will belong to the same columns in all files.
Edit: There are 30 files that should be syncronized, not just two.. I could also gather all files into one file with sheets, instead of having seperate files.
I'm using the following code to copy columns of data in a worksheet of mine. The code once activated will open "notepad" and copy the columns of data in my excel worksheet. Here is the
I have some sample data in "Sheet1" and another sample data in "Sheet2".
The intended output is shown in "Sheet3".
For example: if "Student1" in Sheet1 match the data for "Student1" in Sheet2, then all the entries for "Student1" in Sheet2 will be copied to Sheet3 (ouput). The same thing goes to other students in the list (Sheet1).
Code: Option Explicit Option Compare Text 'for Case-Sensitive matching change Text to Binary Sub List_Matches() Dim sPattern As String, sPath As String, sJob As String Dim sMainDir As String, sCommonSub As String Dim c As Range, lRow As Long Dim d As Range Range("B:B").Clear lRow = Cells(Rows.Count, "E").End(xlUp).Row If lRow < 8 Then Exit Sub
[Code] ...........
The red is the part that I tried to manipulate to add the new directory, the problem I can see is that the new directory contains folders with the following name "WO#____" as i can see the # sign is probably throwing the program off because it can't open up the link to that folder in order to look for files. The program as it stands still works fine with looking up the first directory. I also know we had created a function to solve the sign problem for directory 1 file names. How can i use that function to directory 2.
I am trying to find a way to protect and close column groupings of a number of worksheets on workbook_open procedure by looping the worksheet codenames instead of just the worksheet names in order to prevent potential problems with renaming the sheets.
This code didn't work...
Code: For i = 6 To 25 With ThisWorkbook.VBProject.vbcomponents("Sheet" & i) .Protect "rbse" .Outline.ShowLevels columnlevels:=1 End With Next i
I have a dataset that has replicated Data Values for example "Bob 25" in one row, "Bob 32" in another and so on. This is contained in one data sheet. I want to be able to do something like a VLOOKUP however I want to every instance that the data value occurs to be represented sequentially in my table, so that every instance of "Bob" would be in represented in my table.
Range("B5").Select With ActiveSheet. PivotTables("mypivot).PivotFields("team") .Orientation = xlRowField .Position = 2
This will move the data row field called "team" to be the second from the left. I would like a way to move whatever (without mentioning the field's name) field is in position 2 to position 3. Similar to an "offset" to the right.
I have a macro which imports data from a mainframe dump text file and performs 'Text to Columns' on the imported data so that formula in the spreadsheet can act on the data. The code works perfectly well when I use it, but if a different user logs on and performs exactly the same mainframe dump and import macro the Text to Columns action splits the raw data in a different way and the result is that the split renders the formulae useless.
I've experimented a little and for some reason it appears that the 'Field Info' parameters which are produced when the Text to Columns function is recorded in a macro differ between users even though the raw data is exactly the same.
In Cell B1 I'm trying manipulate (either sum or find the difference for) the current and most recent prior values of Cell A1. The value in Cell A1 changes frecuently because it gets its values from a DDE link.
How do I :
1. Display in Cell B1 the current change in value of Cell A1 ? 2. Display in Cell C1 the sum of changes which have taken place in Cell B1 ? 3. Ideally I'd like to also be able to manually reset the value of Cell C1 to zero at any time.
I think this is a macro, or array, or pivot table thing, and is probably simple, but all of that is well beyond my current skill level.
i have a userform..and on clicking ok the excel sheet behind is populated..if the value in a cell is -1 then the cell should turn empty as in the cell should contain no value.
I have a macro that gets activated as soon as i select the sheet which the macro is situated in. This is not so great because if i am bringing something from the clipboard the automatic macro erases what i have copied and therefore i cannot paste anything. I can make the automatic macro run from a different sheet. Here's how:
I'm trying to write a macro that will take 5 articles that I have written and separate the sentences out....
So what I need to happen is I take the articles and pop them into excel, then the macro will pick the first sentence of the first article, then the first sentence of the second article, then the first sentence of the third article....and basically repeat this for all the sentences in all the articles also while adding a "|" in between the sentences and adding a starting "{" and an ending "}" for each of the first sentences, second sentences and so on.....
I don't know that I'm making any sence here so here is a very small example of what I need to happen....
Article 1 Paragraph 1: I like blue. I like Green. I like Purple. Article 1 Paragraph 2: I like flowers. I like dasies. I like tulips.
Article 2 Paragraph 1: I like football. I like basketball. I like soccer. Article 2 Paragraph 2: I like food. I like wine. I like beer.
Article 3 Paragraph 1: The sky is blue. The sky is dark. The sky is night. Article 3 Paragraph 2: I love stars. The moon is big. The moon is full.
So each of articles would need to be placed in separate sheets I'm guessing?
Below is what I need the text to look like when the macro has finished.....
Spun Article Paragraph 1:
{I like blue.|I like football.|The sky is blue.}{I like Green.|I like basketball.|The sky is dark.}{I like Purple.|I like soccer.|The sky is night.}
Spun Article Paragraph 2:
{I like flowers.|I like food.|I love stars.}{I like dasies.|I like wine.|The moon is big.}{I like tulips.|I like beer.|The moon is full.}
I hope this all makes sense.....
I already set this up using the record macro feature of excel and it works ok but I end up having to do a lot of editing because it will put to many brackets in or not enough so I was hoping for some advise or possibly some code example that could get me headed in the right direction....
I routinely work with RUMBA mainframe display and was trying to create a VBA macro to enter data from a spreadsheet into the mainframe but after pressing enter the mainframe has random wait times on the status bar saying "Host Busy...Please Wait" and then changing to "Ready" when able to accept my next command.
how I can make a method of waiting for the mainframe to be ready before excel continues its sendkeys.
I have a pivot table created from a data table with three columns: Date, Sales, and Customers. I have the Date column in the Report Filter and I want to change the date based upon a value in a cell range named Date, of all things. The pivot table is located in another worksheet and the range Date is changed by a spin button in the active worksheet.
My code is:
Sub ptDate()
Dim pt As PivotTable Set pt = Worksheets("Pivot Tables").PivotTables("PivotTable1")
I retrieve data about local reservoirs (elevation, precipitation, gated release, ...) from a web site [url]. Retrieving the reports requires manipulating three drop boxes ("Select lake", "Year", "Data Type"). After that, I copy the data to the clipboard, and, back in Excel, push a button that pastes the text and extracts the data.
I'd like to programmatically manipulate those controls so that data retrieval can be completely automated.
I have 2 workbooks, one containing all my code and userforms and another containing all my data (which is continuously updated/ dynamic). I want to be able to manipulate the data without ever opening the workbook (at the moment I use the open workbook method, but it is extremely slow). I have found some code (Jwalk) which I think meets my needs (and is instant). I have adapted this so it points to a specific path rather than the active path as below etc. but I need to adapt it further so that:
1. When the data is opened it is formatted exactly the same as it is in the original sheet which includes any coloured cells, bold fonts, cell width, height and so on
2. Any changes I make can be saved back to the original sheet in the closed workbook.
3. The data always opens in a named specific worksheet i.e. "TempSheet" which sits in the workbook containing the code (my code is called from a userform within this workbook).
I am still learning VBA and can adapt/write small pieces of simple code, I have tried incorporating the paste special method, but in all honesty, don't know what I am doing and it results in lots of errors. Can anyone help me get this working/point me in the right direction? Also, what does 'Const' do? how do I bring in the data without specifying the number of rows, as this will be different every time?
Is it possible to write vba code that will generate a text file with ALL changes that were made to an excel file. Ex. If Cell A17 = "Monday, June 4, 2012" and a user updates Cell A17 to "N/A", I would like to know what the value was before and after the udpate was made.
I have a workbook with many spreadsheet named Sheet1, Sheet2 and so on. Each sheet is filled completely upto 65536 rows. This data is being picked up from a CSV file. In this file there are sites with each site there is a assciated set of data. What happens is the data that extracts data does not differntiate between sites and when it reaches to the end of worksheet it splits the data into next sheet. So I am trying to create a macro to check each spreadsheet starting with the last sheet in the work book for example last sheet in the workbook is seven it should go to sheet6 and if there is a blank row after row 64000 it should cut all the rows and move them to sheet7. Then it should goto sheet5 and do the same and keep on doing it until it reaches sheet1.
found the following code which works for 1 workbook at a time. I am trying to save 7 workbooks at 1 time. Is it possible?
Sub SaveAsCell() Dim strName As String
On Error Goto InvalidName strName = Sheet1. Range("V77") ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs strName
It will work on the first sheet but none after that. I need to have each workbook saved with the value in cell V77. Also if that is possible, is it possible to change where the file is saved as well?
Right now I have a master workbook that will open the 7 other workbooks, paste data onto several pages in each workbook. I would like the macro to save the workbooks. The workbooks are named: 02 Tuesday, 03 Wednesday, 04 Thursday, 05 Friday, 06 Saturday, 07 Sunday, 08 Monday.
I am currently trying to manipulate date ranges for monthly and quarterly reports, and am having trouble doing this. I have attached a file with an example of what I would essentially need.
I would need the "Nbr of Projects", "Nbr of Days worked", "Nbr of International Projects" and "Nbr of Local Projects" cells filled in under each respective report, based on the data in the top left.
If a project falls in two months, such as "18.12.2008 to 15.01.2009", this would be treated as 1 project for December and 1 project for January. Also, I would need only "NETWORKDAYS" included in the solution, so 11 days in this example.
I am trying to create a calculator in excel that has five parts. I want to manipulate each part based on the other parts. I cannot figure out how to remove the formula and replace it with the derived number without a circular reference. The circular references slow down the main macros of my program.
I m working with bar charts and as I've heard these labels can be a bit of a pain. I've got the labels in roughly the right position 90% of the time however that other 10% has me in rolling fits.
My issues 1. A label within the chart area is wrapped on two lines, how could I restrict Excel from wrappign the label 2. A Labels position covers some of the data reported and thus makes the graph messy
how could I find the position of the end of the bar and also the length of the datalabel so I could reposition it. Note I am using 2003 and that I am trying to use
for finding the position although this is only really where im getting to. finding the wrapping position and also being able to manipulate the length of the label is proving tricky.
