Using Windows, I have followed the directions to add Match Destination Formatting to Excel in the tool bar, but it goes gray when I attempted to copy and paste from one excel spreadsheet to another. Is there something I am missing?
The option to match destination formatting is only available when the data to be pasted comes from another application, like Word. If you copy and paste between two Excel workbooks, you can use Paste Special > Formulas to achieve the same effect, i.e. keep the destination formats instead of overwriting them.
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I am working from SharePoint.
I would like to COPY AN ENTIRE Excel Sheet-A from Spreadsheet A and Paste it into another Sheet, Sheet-B on Spreadsheet B using Microsoft Power Automate.
Some important things to note:
Sheet-A does not have column names (I know).
There are no Key values or Key Columns. Just random information.
Is there a way to go about this?
Unfortunately PowerAutomate really wants you to have your information in a table if you want to move or manipulate the data and wouldn't it be so useful to have a "Duplicate Sheet" function and copy n paste of individual cells.
If your sheet with the random data happened to be in a single large table, then this may work by apply to each item when navigating the underlying table.
Frequently in my job I need to generate reports with lots of tables of inputs and results. Especially for the result tables, one change in analysis may require editing a dozen spreadsheets. I'd like to create a macro in word that pulls in data from a spreadsheet, with each table on it's own tab, so that if I update any of those tables in excel the word document tables will also update. Given the number of tables/data points, I don't want to have to tell the macro to pull each single data point. The aim would be to reduce time and errors from manual entry.
I'm thinking this would involve the following steps, but not sure how to go about them:
1) Define the name/size for each table in word with matching name/size in excel
2) Tell the macro to pull the data into a table format
I'm not sure if this is possible as so far I've only seen how to insert a caption or a text box, not insert or update entire tables. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Depending on what you're doing, you may not even need any VBA code.
If you copy a range from Excel and paste it into Word using Paste Special with the 'paste link' option, any subsequent changes in the Excel range will automatically be reflected in the document when the workbook is saved. And, if you name the range in Excel before copying/pasting, the Word content will expend/contract to reflect changes in the named range's scope in Excel. A variety of paste formats is supported.
Alternatively, you might use a DATABASE field in Word.
I am currently working with a macro that gathers data (code identifier) from a source with a print screen and pastes it to excel.
Problem is, every time a data point (identifier) is a value with an "E" included, excel interprets as a scientific notation and changes the original value.
Is there a way to make excel set the column in which I have those values to text before pasting, or for it to paste the whole content as text automatically?
Thanks for the help.
I have an original excel file that I have ran a simulation that inputs financial data. I made a copy of this file, and wired the formulas up differently to try and increase calculation performances.
I now have 2 workbooks, the original and the final. I want to compare each sheet from each of the workbooks together to make sure that the financial numbers have remained the same, to make sure the new formulas are not effecting the numbers received.
I have tried to put copies of the two sheets into one workbook, name them April12 and April15. Then insert a third sheet. In cell A1 of the third sheet, I wanted to use the formula
=April12!A1=April15!A1
to get TRUE/FALSE values. But the formulas in these sheets reference many other sheets that are not in this new workbook, so all of my numbers turn up as #REF.
Iv googled many different ways of approaching this but I cant seem to get any of them to work. Does anyone know a simple way I can compare just the values from 2 sheets from 2 different workbooks to find out if the numbers have remained the same or have changed?
Note:I am using excel 2010.
I think you already know how to verify data using formula so is the problem to refer to a row in a different workbook ? if so, following might be helpful :
=[yourFile.xls]SheetName!$Col$Row
this way you can update your formula like(yourFile.xls refers to the complete path including the file name) :
=[file1.xls]April12!A1=[file2.xls]April15!A1
I want to copy a sql result set and paste it in Excel. But the data I paste in to the spreadsheet doesn't want to recognize Excel formatting. So if I change a column to currency, it doesn't do anything. But...if I double click on a cell, THEN it applies the currency format. But only to that cell.
How can I make it automatically recognize the Excel format?
I must be something I'm missing. Hopefully somebody can help. :-)
After you input the data into the columns in Excel, highlight all cells, then select the Data tab in the top ribbon. In the data tab click on Text to Columns, in the pop-up window select Delimited, then uncheck all of the boxes in Step 2 on that pop-up and select Finish. It will force all of the cells to update to your formatting.
Have you tried <edit><paste special> and then paste the data as text? Otherwise you're copying data AND formatting, which might be the problem.
You can right click on the SQL Grid and pick the the Save Results As option and save as csv. Open the csv in excel copy the content and paste in your destination Excel worksheet.
Seconding the <edit><paste special>, but another useful feature is <Text to Columns>. So if you paste your data as text, if it does not automatically appear in columns, use the Text to Columns to turn it into columns, then any formatting you apply should work.
Change your excel column format into text and then paste special -> TEXT