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How can I copy certain cells from one spreadheet to another???

Asked by: ashp87

The first spreadsheet, I am going to call Test.xls contains different tabs with information that I need to copy from all of them to another spreadsheet that we can call Test1.xls

For example, I would like to copy the value from:
 Test.xls (Sheet 1) A10 to Test1.xls's last row.... Column 1 Then
 Text.xls (Sheet 1) C15 to Test.xls's row that we used for the first copy Column 2. and so on...

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Answers

 

by: unogeekPosted on 2009-11-05 at 13:30:56ID: 25754260

ashp87
Right click on the cell you want to copy the information from, click copy, goto to the row / column you want to paste the value to and right click and choose paste special. Choose the Values radio button, keep Operation as none, skip blanks unchecked and transpose unchecked, click okay. Your value is should now be within that cell from sheet 1. Repeat those steps for all info you want to copy and paste to a new sheet or row / column.

 

by: saurabh726Posted on 2009-11-05 at 13:45:59ID: 25754402

Assuming both the workbooks are open, Use the following code...

Saurabh...

Sub copydata()
    Dim wb As Workbook, wb1 As Workbook
    Dim lrow As Long
 
    Set wb = Workbooks("Test.xls")
    Set wb1 = Workbooks("Test1.xls")
 
    lrow = wb1.Sheets("sheet1").Cells(Cells.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row + 1
 
    wb.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A10").Copy wb1.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & lrow)
    wb.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C15").Copy wb1.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & lrow)
 
 
End Sub
                                              
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by: ashp87Posted on 2009-11-05 at 17:28:59ID: 25755984

That works great saurabh, except it gives me a subscript out of error, it still copies the cell value from one spreadsheet to the other but it has that error for some reason.... Maybe I am not referencing the right sheet name lets say the sheet1 in my Test.xls is called DB and the sheet1 in Test1.xls is still the same, would the code look like this:

wb.Sheets("DB").Range("A10").Copy wb1.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & lrow)
wb.Sheets("DB").Range("C15").Copy wb1.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & lrow)

 

by: saurabh726Posted on 2009-11-05 at 17:30:57ID: 25755995

Well it should not give you that error if the sheet name is same, However its copying its value as in both the value in A Column only thats why you are not seeing the value in B Column, Use this...

wb.Sheets("DB").Range("A10").Copy wb1.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & lrow)
wb.Sheets("DB").Range("C15").Copy wb1.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B" & lrow)

Now it copies value to both A and B Column.

Saurabh...

 

by: ashp87Posted on 2009-11-05 at 17:37:51ID: 31650738

Thank you very much! The problem I was having was that the values kept pasting into the same cell.

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