I am using Excel for Mac 2016 on macOS Sierra software. Although I have been successfully copying and pasting CSV files into excel for some time now, recently, they have begun to behave in an odd way. When I paste the data, the content of each row seems to split over many columns. Where as … Read more
You need to have installed Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). VSTO can be selected in the Visual Studio installer under Workloads > Web & Cloud > Office/SharePoint Development. After that create a generic .NET project and add a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel via ‘Add Reference… > Assemblies’ dialog. Missing.Value is a special reflection struct … Read more
To illustrate my issue, use the following simple example. I want to be able to replace any text that comes between “replace” and “that” to “it is done”. For example, the two following strings: to this string using the SUBSTITUTE function in excel using wildcard characters. This is the formula that I’m using: The formula … Read more
The workaround is pretty easy. Open the XML file in a text editor and delete the line that is referring to a DTD location. Excel will then create an XML schema according to your XML file.
There are several ways of doing this. This is an answer that I write hoping that all the basics of Internet Explorer automation will be found when browsing for the keywords “scraping data from website”, but remember that nothing’s worth as your own research (if you don’t want to stick to pre-written codes that you’re … Read more
I am trying to read a .xlsx with pandas, but get the follwing error: I’ve also tried And I Still get the same error. Background: I’m trying to extract an excel file with multiple worksheets as a dict of data frames.I installed xlrd version 0.9.0 and the latest version(1.1.0) but I still get the same … Read more
You can’t nest a function inside a procedure. You need to move it above:
Use the below function (changing [E:E] to the appropriate range for your needs) to circumvent this issue (or change to any other format such as “mm/dd/yyyy”): P.S. In my experience, this VBA solution works SIGNIFICANTLY faster on large data sets and is less likely to crash Excel than using the ‘warning box’ method.
Use the standard “Open” command. Then go to “Text Import Wizard” and choose that the original data type was delimited. You may need to go to a different step of the Wizard to specify that the delimiter is a space, but the Wizard does include the option of specifying what character the delimiter is.
For anyone that is still stuck on this issue after trying the above. If you are right-clicking on the database and going to tasks->import, then here is the issue. Go to your start menu and under sql server, find the x64 bit import export wizard and try that. Worked like a charm for me, but … Read more