Question

Writing to excel sheet in correct format

Asked by: mohinder_pandey

This is regarding writing the Information from the text file to Excel sheet . The information in text file is like
518 Torque Intervention type ......
and of course there are many such rows
The problem is that when i write to Excel sheet it shows only 518 in First cells and similar information in first cell of rest of rows. If i adjust manually the column width in first cell of each row ,i can see the full line(information).This is 1 problem.
The 2nd problem i am facing is that information gets written to 1 cell only, while i want '518' to be in first cell,'Torque intervention type to be in second cell and so on.Also i want to fill the color in say 4th cell of
Excel sheet.  Also Please provide me ur email address so that i can send the files. Also  please suggest some Application names.

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2002-11-15 at 01:39:23ID20399158
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Answers

 

by: RayBlakePosted on 2002-11-15 at 01:43:50ID: 7452250

I'd be pleased to have a look if you email me the file(s) at rayblake@yahoo.com

Regards.

Ray

 

by: bruintjePosted on 2002-11-15 at 02:12:17ID: 7452330

hopefully we keep it in the group, all that offsite handling is ok but it goes against the collaboration effort of EE

 

by: RayBlakePosted on 2002-11-15 at 02:16:49ID: 7452337

My idea was that if I can get a good look at the files, I can provide an answer along with a fuller description of the issue.

Apologies from this newbie if I've committed an etiquette faux pas.

 

by: bruintjePosted on 2002-11-15 at 02:42:14ID: 7452415

that's true was also meant for the asker

 

by: RayBlakePosted on 2002-11-15 at 10:59:15ID: 7454453

Mohinder,

For the benefit of everyone else, let me show a portion of the text file you supplied:

18  Torque Intervention Type           100     0      0      0      %
518  Engine Cooling Fan Speed Request   49      0      0      0      %
518  Engine Cooling Fan Speed Request    0      0     100     49     %

No doubt the font on the message board will skew the columns somewhat, but in the text file with a non-proportional font, they are perfectly aligned and it is a number of spaces, rather than a TAB, which separate them.

Mohinder, I got this to divide up into cells pretty easily without any VBA. Here is what I did:

1. Used File|open, selected 'text files' as the file type and selected the text file to import. This starts the Text Import Wizard.
2. Selected the 'fixed width'radio button, and clicked on 'next'.
3. At the next screen, followed on-screen directions to slightly adjust the lines indicating breaking between cells and clicked 'next'.
4. Clicked on 'finish'.

Job done. Of course, if you needed a VBA solution, you might follow these steps with the Macro Recorder running...

Regards.

Ray

 

by: pauloaguiaPosted on 2003-03-14 at 14:42:45ID: 8139938

Hi mohinder_pandey ,

No comment has been added lately and it's time to clean up this Topic Area.
If this question isn't revived and no action is taken I will leave a recommendation in the Cleanup topic area that this question is:

- answered by RayBlake

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by: RotaredoMPosted on 2003-03-24 at 15:23:18ID: 8198936

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