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Preparing a spreadsheet to be imported

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    Preparing a spreadsheet to be imported

    When I began experminenting with the ole automation samples provided with A5V5 I lamented that the "read from" capability available in V6 (see the section in the .chm "Reading an Excel Spreadsheet with OLE")
    was not available to me. I wanted to read through an excel spreadsheet, excerpting certain portions and saving the result as an Alpha import compatible excel version. I found the limitations of ole in V5 can be circumvented.

    The attached script processes a spreadsheet report that is available in my company. The original of the report contains data pertaining to three sales divisions. I was asked to take the data for one division and make it available in my in-house application. This is easily accomplished if I manually strip out the data I want, title the columns as needed to fit a predefined import operation, then save the file as Excel ver 3/4, then run the import. The problem with that scenario is that I must perform all these steps once a week. I was determined to automate the whole process.

    Using the code snippets others have posted on the board attributed to John Magno - http://www.JohnMagno.com, I came up with the attached script. It is not a finished product that you can use in your own work "as is" but it should provide a basis for creating your own process. It is fairly well commented so I will finish by pointing out that the script....

    opens an excel file of an version suported by your excel application
    reads the excel file looking for predefined values in certain cells
    deletes the sections of the file that I don't need
    renames the columns with usable values
    saves the file as excel v 4, ready for import

    There can be only one.

    #2
    RE: Preparing a spreadsheet to be imported

    I may use that one in the near future.

    Thanks Stan.
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

    [email protected]
    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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      #3
      Hi, I'm interested in reading that code, but it won't download ... says not available, is it still in the code library? thanks.
      Brian

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        #4
        Me Too please

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          #5
          Here's something similar

          Originally posted by Lance Gurd
          Me Too please
          I can't locate the original at the moment. This doesn't rename the columns but has the rest, I think.

          Code:
          FUNCTION ex_convert AS C (excelname AS C, newname AS C ) 
          Dim xlApp as p 
          dim myCell as c
          xlApp = ole.create("Excel.Application") 
          xlApp.Workbooks.Open(excelname) 
          'xlApp.Visible = .T. 'comment this line out if you don't want to see Excel
          xlApp.Rows("1:1").Select
          xlApp.Selection.Delete(-4162) '-4162 is shift remaining cells up
          xlApp.Columns("D:N").Select
          xlApp.Selection.Delete(-4159) '-4159 is shift remaining cells left
          xlApp.Columns("E:IV").Select
          xlApp.Selection.Delete(-4159)
          xlapp.DisplayAlerts = .F.
          xlApp.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(newname,33) '33 is a constant for Excel 4.0, dbf4 is 11
          xlApp.Workbooks.Close()
          xlapp.DisplayAlerts = .T.
          xlApp.Quit() 
          END FUNCTION 
          
          'to call the function, use the example on the next line 
          'ex_convert("c:\book1.xls","c:\book4.xls")
          Found the original attachment!
          Last edited by Stan Mathews; 03-28-2006, 03:24 PM.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Updated for post A5V5

            Later versions of Alpha are more strict about using excel methods as

            .select() rather than .select .

            This attachment is updated to reflect that requirement.
            Last edited by Stan Mathews; 03-28-2006, 03:24 PM.
            There can be only one.

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