I have an Excel dataset to be imported into Access. One of the fields in Excel has type General, but it's really numbers shown as text. And some of the data in this field is blank. So when importing into Access, I tried to convert this field to double, but due to having blanks in the data, it's giving me type conversion error. Is there a way to handle blanks as 0s and convert to double during the import steps?
Also I think there used to be an "Advanced" button during the import fields step in Access. Now I don't see that button anymore.
In my testing, the blank cells are not the issue, it is the cells that are individually formatted to display as text and do have data. Recommend fixing the spreadsheet. review:
Convert 'numbers as text' to numbers
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I have scripted out a module that reads data I paste in from a SQL dump, and converts it into a data insert script to SQL. It is working great, only problem is for cells that contain items like:
11-20
instead of filling my value as '11-20', it is converting it to '20-Nov'.
I have adjusted how i read the cell from text to value to value2, Text comes the closest to right (rest do a math calc that tosses my overall sheet off even worse, namely dates). I have also tried such things as a Range("X:X").clear and clearformat as well. This also does not do the trick.
How do I force my string read of this cell to be the literal CSV content, and ignore the formula/calculations that excel is tossing at me?
EDIT:
Thanks to BraX for the solution!
I was unable to accomplish this by copying from one tab to the next within Excel, but i did get it to work by pausing my operation with a message box prompting the user to simply navigate to SQL and put the contents of the data in to the clip board. This works perfectly now!
Cells.Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "#"
MsgBox "Please navigate to SQL and copy your data to be insurted, including headers. When done click OK"
Range("A1").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Before adding the data to the sheet, set the NumberFormat to # for the affected columns.
Example:
ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets("Sheet1").Range("A:A").NumberFormat = "#"
That will format the values to Text and prevent them from being interpreted as a Date when the data is added. Once Excel decides it's a date, it's too late.
i am pretty sure all it takes is to format the cells, right click on the range of cells you want formatted as plain text, click "FORMAT CELLS" and under the "NUMBER TAB" it shows the "CATEGORY" of the type of formatting, e.g: "General, Number, Currency, etc" select where it says "Text" and click ok, any text will be evaluated the same way you write it, so even if you write "11-5-18" it will be just that and won't be considered a date or anything.
When reading a csv file containing ID numbers, excel is reading strings as numbers. This also occurs when reading the same style of ID's in an excel vba array.
Under locals, the elements of the array are displayed as datatype "String", but the format is still a number.
I have tried changing the style to text as well as using CStr() on individual elements of an array. Is there a way to have excel read the ID's as a string instead of a number?
Thanks.
You need to bypass the automatic conversion when you open the .csv file.
Use the Import Wizard to open the file and tell the Wizard that the field is text.
To convert back this might suit:
=SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,3),".","")&"E"&TEXT(RIGHT(A1,3)-1,"0000")
I've been searching for a solution to this for a while and have been unsuccessful in finding. Essentially, I have the user of my document populating fields in a user form that my code then puts into the appropriate cells. One of these input fields is a number but, no matter how I instruct excel to format the cell, it still is text in the end and I can't perform any calculations. I'm sure this is probably a pretty simple fix but I've been unsuccessful so far in finding a solution. As always, any help is appreciated!
thanks!
You need to convert the value from text to a numeric type before putting it into a cell.
Assuming your textbox is called txtNumber and you're outputting to cell Output!A1, the code would be:
Sheets("Output").Range("A1") = CDbl(txtNumber)
Other conversion functions you might want to use are CLng (convert to Long), CInt (convert to Integer), CDec (convert to decimal, useful for currency values).
This code will raise an error if the user types a non-numeric text value into the field. You should validate on the textbox's Change event and disable the OK button if invalid data is inputted.
I would like to type at least 500 characters in excel sheet cell. But when I do that it only lets me add 1 paragraph like 196 characters. When I add another paragraph, it gives me a message **
"Exceeded Text Limit"
**. How do I resolve this so I can add lot of text in the cell. I googled and tried different things and failed.
Please help !!!
There is a 32,767 character limit in Excel per cell when wrapping text.
You might be able to import it into Access as a Table, with a Memo field that can hold 65,000 characters.
A text box can also hold more, but if you're doing any calculations, this isn't practical.
Try looking here: http://excel.tips.net/Pages/T003163_Character_Limits_for_Cells.html
Does anybody else have this same problem, when you import data from Excel file to MSSQL Server 2005, if some column contains mostly numeric data, but even if you set the column type to varchar, the wizard fails to import those fields that fail to parse as numbers?
Try this (Note: These instructions are based on Excel 2007)...
The following steps should force Excel to treat the column as text:
Open your spreadsheet with Excel.
Select the whole column that contains your "mostly numeric data" by clicking on the column header.
Click on the Data tab on the ribbon menu.
Select Text to Columns. This will bring up the Convert Text to Columns Wizard.
-On Step 1: Click Next
-On Step 2: Click Next
-On Step 3: Select Text and click Finish
Save your Excel sheet.
Retry the import using the SQL Server 2005 Import Data Wizard.
You need to edit the connection string that SSIS uses. Add this to the end of the string "IMEX=1;" (No quotes) That tells SSIS/jet to not try and figure out what the data types are. Just import them.
You might try tweaking Jet settings for importing Excel data. You can force the Jet engine to sample the entire sheet when trying to determine the column type during a given import. Change the following registry key (after making a backup first) and see if that doesn't do it:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel
Or on x64
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Excel
Set the value TypeGuessRows equal to zero. This will force Jet to sample all rows to determine the column type.
Create a new column that is an apostophe + the contents of the column you want to import. This will force it to be a string
="'"&E2
Adding IMEX=1 BEFORE the HDR setting worked for me.
This is the best solution:
Click File on the ribbon menu, and then click on Options.
Click Advanced, and then under When calculating this workbook, select the Set precision as displayed check box, and then click OK.
Click OK.
In the worksheet, select the cells that you want to format.
On the Home tab, click the Dialog Box Launcher Button image next to
Number.
In the Category box, click Number.
In the Decimal places box, enter the number of decimal places that
you want to display.