I'm facing the following problem. I have a very large excel sheet in the format attached as a picture. For reasons beyond my control the basic formatting of this sheet needs to be maintained as people with no skill want to be able to edit this.
However, I need to work with the content and as it is quite large, it is really unreadable. So what I wanted to do is to be able to find the tasks belonging to different departments and the different people. My approach was to create two pivot tables where I want a dropdown list with either the department or the person to be able to filter on the tasks that that belong to each of them. I have found how to filter on a dropdown menu, however this is for column entries. What I want to do is to filter on the column labels and then display the tasks for which the column I selected is non empty.
I need some help on the direction in which I need to search for the answer to this problem as I'm currently lost in solutions that have nothing to do with this problem.
Thanks in advance
You can use Power Query Excel 2010+ you can download and activate easily or by default in 2016 version. There you can keep this format for your users and a pivot table for control.
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In company when I currently work we have big issue with MS excel stability, hence my question below.
Recently I just learned about excel Dictonary code.
I know pivot tables and how they work.
sadly the issue is not with pivot themselves but with excel. (IT dept. is working on the issue for 3 weeks now, and we dont know when / if they gonna fix it)
Hence my big ask for thi community:
I would need a userform working with the dictonary.
What I would need is to create a code that could work as pivot table but using dictonaries (since theoreticaly they are faster and are outside of VBA / excel basic in-build option)
so?
Can some1 help in creating such code?
Is this the right option?
I would like to see a userform where I can choose my Table(ctrl+T) headers to choose by which header i want to sum values up, and ofc I would have to be able to choose a column by which the dictonary summing is working on.
Thank you both for answering.
Lets start then.
I watched ExcelMacroMastery videos regarding dictionaries,
In this example, he used them to make a basic sum exactly like the basic functionality of Pivot table.
So since that's the basic use where I work I wish to have a dictionary macro from which I can choose the column by which I get unique values and 2nd column with a sum from the second provided column from a table.
the issue is: if I show any file or any example this could result in macro working for this specific case, and I would like it to be able to choose by Table's (CTRL+T) headers for the unique values and to use some way(like a dropdown menu) to choose the column by which the sum can happen.
This instability is due to 32 bit office suite 365 working n 64 bi PCs/ laptops and recent company update made it even worse, now there is an issue with even basic save file option.
Not to mention excel crashing for no apparent reason.
So to sum up,
I need dictionaries to kinda step up and replace basic summarizing functionality of an pivot table.
or to replace this non pivot way:
use unique function to determine unique values from specified column (non-table object sadly)
Use sumif or sumoifs function to summarize the specified amount/value for that unique list.
//EDIT:
I kinda found what I was looking for thus the edit.
Im showing the link to the file I wish to change a bit:
https://app.monstercampaigns.com/c/s0iavndiopijkrar8ghp/
to this file I wish to add a user form by which the headers of the report will be chosen from source data, and by which the sum will occur.
I am in the process of creating a costing summary workbook. My main summary sheet lists a job category and then 4 rows of cost breakdown before the next category is listed. On another sheet, I have a template that the user will make a copy of for each month, which breaks down weekly work hours and then allocates hours from each employee/plant to against a job category. Please see attached pictures.
Summary Sheet -
Template Sheet
My goal is to have the number of columns on the template increase/decrease as categories are added to or removed from the summary sheet. I already have a cell that contains a count of coloured rows (category titles), and i figure i should be able to use this to determine the amount of rows that need to be added to or removed from a table. I can't think of any ways for this to be done without macros or VBA code of some kind, which I am open to but I would like to minimise the use of.
Can anyone provide me with some code or a push in the right direction for this kind of function? Category names will be stored in column A, or my count is stored in B84. Columns for each category start from column S in the template sheet.
Kyle, you can visit the following sites with a lot of vba beginners information.
http://www.excel-easy.com/vba.html
http://www.homeandlearn.org/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/vba/
Try implementing your idea using pseudo-code.
http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/software-engineering-basics/what-is-pseudo-coding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0EYfrrDT8
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/programming/good-practices/p/planning-with-pseudo-code
Once you be able to write your code and you are having some code error or problem you cannot find a solution in the web, come again and ask specific questions, there are a lot of experienced programmers that will be happy to help you to solve your coding problems.
Would you please help me (total beginner) to prepare a VBA macro that would open a sheet on the background and import specific selection as shown below:
Let's say we have downloaded wordcount analysis (xlsx) like this downloaded from a CAT tool for testing.
Now I would need to add a macro to my main sheet that would read lines starting (Column A) with "All". If "All" then I'd need to record columns of that line (specficilly Columns A - O) in array / hashtable?.
Please take a look at this image that summs it all (better than explaining it for me :-)
Let me know in case you need to know more details.
All tips / suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Many thanks!
My suggestion (I'm a beginner too) would be to use the Macro Recorder. Great tool to learn (example).
start recording
filter for 'ALL'
copy/past the Cells
stop Recording
Then have a look at the recorded code and adjust it :)
Looking at your data and the final layout you are looking for, using a Pivot Table would provide you with all of the flexibility you need.
You can:
filter which data to display
generate calculated values based on data in other columns
choose what order your columns are displayed
dynamically change the layout if you decide you want a different view
From your data, I was able to generate the following Pivot Table in about 15 minutes.
There are several good, simple tutorials on building Pivot Tables. A Google search will turn up plenty.
Things you will need to learn about for your particular problem:
Classic display (I used the classic display to get this particular layout)
Calculated Fields (many of the columns in the pivot table are calculated based on your spec). There is a maximum string length of 255 characters for a field calculation, so you may need to rename some of the columns in the original data set.
Of course, basics of Pivot Tables
Loading new data and updating your pivot table
Good Luck!
Before I begin I found this to be most relevant with the research I have done.
How to split the data from one column into separate columns using the contents of another column in SQL
Attached are pictures of my progress so far. How can I display this information such as it is shown in the excel file without disrupting the GROUP BY filter in my Query?
It's a Fishbowl Database, newest version. I am running the queries through Flamerobin which you see in the picture. Trying to organize the query to display correctly so I can format it into 'iReports' and export it into an excel spreadsheet like the one shown. Maybe there is some part of this that would better be done in excel?
Notice the numbers for Qty are different, that's ok right now.
My reputation is too low to post pictures I am sorry. Here are the two JPGs in my Dropbox. I really appreciate the help.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r2rw5r2awsyvzs9/AAAXXg27CMPOYtZFqPX3Dx6la?dl=0
I have a pivot table with multiple filters, such as:
Site: select one of the sites
Supervisor: shows all supervisors, regardless of site
Currently, the Supervisor filter shows all the available options from the data set. I want it to only display the supervisor names that match the selected site. I'm trying to put together an automated solution that will update as users select the options they need within the filters (to see their site and individual teams, for example). I'm trying to automate this, so it will always be current as supervisors are added/removed from the data set.
I'm pretty sure automating this is a VBA issue, but I'm pretty new to using VBA, so I'm not sure where to start.
Seeing as I'm new and do not have enough rep to comment I will just give you an answer and if it's not what you're looking for I will remove it.
I don't believe this is a VBA issue. In the pivot table Field List you will want to set Supervisor to be filtered by clicking the little downward arrow beside the field name within the "Choose fields to add to report" box. That way when you select a site you can then filter out any of the supervisors that don't belong there.