Unique Workbook Identifier

Aug 10, 2007

Here at work we have a set of 12 workbooks, that form an extensive activity plan. I have created an add-in that creates a worksheet menu bar item and adds different functionalities to these 12 files. Because any user might have more than one of these documents open at one time, I am forced to refer to the documents by ActiveWorkbook. A bonus added feature: the names of these files change periodically, but not at the same time.

Before running any procedure I must validate that the active book is one of these files. Currently I am testing the existence of a veryhidden sheet codenamed "shIsValid" in the workbook. Now I'm thinking, there has to be a better way to do this. Simplest way would be if ThisWorkbook object had a Tag property similar to UserForms, but this doesn't seem to be the case. I wonder, is there actually a way to give a workbook any identifier (boolean, string or number) that I can access directly, so I can get rid of these dummy worksheets.

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does anyone have any thoughts on any way to create a formula that will create a unique identifier for a single row? I thought about using concatenate to combine a few columns in a row which will probably work 99% of the time, but I cant risk it being wrong 1% of the time. Any ideas on how to incorporate checking if the concatenation (aka the unique identifier) already exists, and if so, add a number or something to it to make it unique?

The data has rows added and removed on a normal basis in random spots on the sheet so I cant simply just have a number incrementing for each row I add as the unique identifier. In other words, the unique identifier should never change even if I add or remove rows anywhere in the sheet.

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New rows and copied rows should get new unique identifiers, but I can see no
way of doing this. Does anyone have any suggestions? There is nothing unique
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I would like this formula to collect all the cells in the column A in Tab 2 into a column of cells in Tab 1 beginning in Cell A5. I would copy the formula in Cell A5 of Tab 1 down multiple lines. I can add a segment to the formula that will return a blank if there are no more cells with the indicated string included.

Tab 1 formula begins in Cell A5Tab 2 of Unique IdentifiersFormula that will copy first cell in Tab 2 that includes VA in the string from Tab 2VANewsprint23005-2119Formula that will copy next cell in Tab 2 that includes VA in the string from Tab 2TNPackaging37309etcALPackaging35044etcVAPackaging24526-0040etcONPackagingP0K 1E0NHPackaging03743VAPackaging24521NYPackaging13667MIPackaging49099VA
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ID Text
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345 into one cell, if you would
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Date
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Session ID
Mac Address
Status

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[Code] ............

I would what these flagged as such:

Date
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I have undertaken a project and have hit a brick wall.

I'll try and translate my request in the easiest way I can.

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I therefore have a list of software that is installed on machines that connect to my domain.
Each machine that connects to the domain has a unique identifier code.

At present I have about 500 different pieces of software on the various machines.


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I wanted to give each seperate piece of software a unique ID number.

I was wanting to run a formula similar to the pseudocode below:
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IdentifierA
value1
value2
value3
value4

IdentifierB
value5
value6

[Code] ......

There is 3.000 rows of data. As you can see some of the identifiers have no values.

On another sheet I need the following table to be generated in this format (two columns):

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IdentifierA Value2
IdentifierA Value3
IdentifierA Value4
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[Code] .....

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$e$56 to $e$96 are Dollar amounts

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A5 Pete------D5 D------E5 D+ -----F5 D-

Expected output for Bob is SEN. Expected output for Tim is Art, Business Studies. Expected output for Pete is SEN, Art, Business Studies.

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Example

(For sheet 1, since it doesnt carry formating 11111111 is in column a, nut, flange is in column b, 1.00 is in column c and the output data i want would go into column D)

Sheet 1
A B C D
11111111Nut, Flange 1.00 *Starts blank* -looking for - Output from Sheet 2 Column D (1)
33333333Bolt, Squared 4.00 *Starts blank* -looking for - Output from Sheet 2 Column D (4)
55555555Bolt, Coated 3.00 *Starts blank* -looking for - Output from Sheet 2 Column D (2)
22222222Bolt, Hex 4.00 *Starts blank* -looking for - Output from Sheet 2 Column D (11)
44444444Bolt, Screw Type 2.00 *Starts blank* -looking for - Output from Sheet 2 Column D (3)

Sheet 2
A B C D
11111111Nut, Flange 1.00 1
22222222Bolt, Hex 4.00 11
33333333Bolt, Squared 4.00 4
44444444Bolt, Screw Type 2.00 3
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Dim cell As Range
Dim Lrow As Long
Dim foldername As String
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