I am trying to import some results from a SQL query into excel ignoring line breaks.
The results look fine in SQL server
a typical record has the following column extracted from a HTML address
<b>F1 Gran Premio de España Santander<sup style="font-size: 8px">TM</sup> 2013</b><br><span class="smallText">3 Day Entry<br>Grandstand F<br><strong>10% off race day prices! Book now!</strong></span>
when this is imported into excel all the line breaks ruin the formatting...
I have tried this with grid, text and exporting to .rpt file and importing. Any ideas how to ignore the line breaks, thanks ?
there is a possibility to export data for excel in "fiendly" form using "XML Spreadsheet" format. Description can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa140066(v=office.10).aspx
If you need only to export data from SSMS then you might find SSMSBoost add-in for SSMS useful in your case.I am developer of this add-in and I have implemented "Export ResultsGrid to Excel" function, that simply scripts ResultsGrid contents as XML Spreadsheet format. (Right click the grid->Script as -> XML Spreadsheet). Hope it helps. (Add-in can be used for free.)
P.S. Scripting engine of SSMSBoost is pretty flexible and you can create your own scripting templates. I have created couple of them and they are installed with add-in: script as "insert", "select", "property:value", "XML", "XML spreadsheet", "HTML".
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I have some codes in kdb+(which uses q) which generates data in tabular form. The problem is I need to run each line separately and export the data to excel. Is there any way to automate this such that all the excel files can ben generated in one go?
Thanks
Whils't you can of course use csv as suggested above, .h.edsn is the function used for creating excel workbooks. It takes a dictionary of sheetNames->tables.
`:/var/tmp/excel.xls 0: .h.edsn `tab1`tab2!(([]10?10);([]20?20))
Then just open the xls file in excel.
I have used the "Hex Editor to modify DPB to DPx" many times in the past to bypass VBA project security on my old Excel VBA projects (.xls), so I definitely know how to do it and know that I can do it.
However I have just tried to do it yesterday and found that it no longer seems to work. I tried using both Excel 2011 (Mac) and Excel 2003 (Windows) and in both cases, I got the same behaviour;
Opening the VBA editor gave a message saying that the project is corrupted and that the project will be removed. The VBA editor then opens and, sure enough, all VBA is stripped out from modules and worksheets.
I have tried this method:
Is there a way to crack the password on an Excel VBA Project? (ie. creating a spreadsheet with a known password and then copying across the relevant fields)
But find that the length of the "GC" key created on my 'dummy' spreadsheet is shorter than the "GC" key on the spreadsheet that I am wishing to access (the "target"). I had read elsewhere that in cases where the "target" keys were longer, you could pad the "dummy" keys to the same length but there is nothing i can find to say what to do in the reverse case.
So - my questions (s);
Is anyone aware if a patch has been applied that makes the "hex editor" approach invalid?
Can anyone help with what to do when the dummy keys are longer than the target keys?
Can anyone else provide any updated onsite into this issue?
EDIT
Having now solved this (to some degree) i thought i'd add a summary here.
I HAVE NOT been able to get this to work on Mac Excel 2011. Something about changing the file from filname.xlsm to fielname.zip and back again results in a corrupted excel file which Excel 2011 refuses to recognise.
I DID manage to get this to work on an old windows machine (XP/Excel 2007) by modifying the .xlsm file name to .zip, editing the DPB= AND GC= values in the vbaproject.bin file with a hex editor then saving this in the .zip file before renaming the .zip back to xlsm. I used the "test" example given by Ricko at the bottom and it worked with ONE CAVEAT - i had to 'pad' out my GC value to make it that same length as the original one in my file.
ORIGINAL: GC="0F0DA36FAF938494849484"
NEW: (TEST) GC="BAB816BBF4BCF4BCF4" (from Ricko below)
NEW: (TEST) GC="BAB816BBF4BCF4BCF40000" (what i used and what worked)
I have your answer, as I just had the same problem today:
Someone made a working vba code that changes the vba protection password to "macro", for all excel files, including .xlsm (2007+ versions). You can see how it works by browsing his code.
This is the guy's blog: http://lbeliarl.blogspot.com/2014/03/excel-removing-password-from-vba.html
Here's the file that does the work: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6sFi5sSqEKbLUIwUTVhY3lWZE0/edit
Pasted from a previous post from his blog:
For Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsm) files do following steps:
Create a new .xlsm file.
In the VBA part, set a simple password (for instance 'macro').
Save the file and exit.
Change file extention to '.zip', open it by any archiver program.
Find the file: 'vbaProject.bin' (in 'xl' folder).
Extract it from archive.
Open the file you just extracted with a hex editor.
Find and copy the value from parameter DPB (value in quotation mark), example:
DPB="282A84CBA1CBA1345FCCB154E20721DE77F7D2378D0EAC90427A22021A46E9CE6F17188A". (This value generated for 'macro' password. You can use this DPB value to skip steps 1-8)
Do steps 4-7 for file with unknown password (file you want to unlock).
Change DBP value in this file on value that you have copied in step 8.
If copied value is shorter than in encrypted file you should populate missing characters with 0 (zero). If value is longer - that is not a problem (paste it as is).
Save the 'vbaProject.bin' file and exit from hex editor.
Replace existing 'vbaProject.bin' file with modified one.
Change extention from '.zip' back to '.xlsm'
Now, open the excel file you need to see the VBA code in. The password for the VBA code
will simply be macro (as in the example I'm showing here).
New version, now you also have the GC=
try to replace both DPB and GC with those
DPB="DBD9775A4B774B77B4894C77DFE8FE6D2CCEB951E8045C2AB7CA507D8F3AC7E3A7F59012A2"
GC="BAB816BBF4BCF4BCF4"
password will be "test"
Open xls file with a hex editor.
Search for DPB
Replace DPB to DPx
Save file.
Open file in Excel.
Click "Yes" if you get any message box.
Set new password from VBA Project Properties.
Close and open again file, then type your new password to unprotect.
Check http://blog.getspool.com/396/best-vba-password-recovery-cracker-tool-remove/
If you deal with .xlsm file instead of .xls you can use the old method. I was trying to modify vbaProject.bin in .xlsm several times using DBP->DBx method by it didn't work, also changing value of DBP didn't. So I was very suprised that following worked :
1. Save .xlsm as .xls.
2. Use DBP->DBx method on .xls.
3. Unfortunately some erros may occur when using modified .xls file, I had to save .xls as .xlsx and add modules, then save as .xlsm.
So I have a file that has over 100 entries in it as an excel worksheet. I want to put those over into a sql. So I fire up my sql developer and try and import the data but it doesn't show up.
The next and finish buttons don't do anything. (the blue underline words aren't links to anything either fyi)
Have you tried converting the original file to text (csv) then importing? That has worked for me in the past.
I had the same problem and the only way to get rid of it was to rename the preferences folder (as described here: https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2015/08/how-to-reset-your-sql-developer-preferencessettings/) and start the program with factory defaults.
One more reason is that the CSV or excel file is of 0 kb size or empty.
I want to reproduce my code in Word 2010. The scripts were written in rstudio, and I would like to preserve rstudio's formatting when pasting into Word. Principally, I like the font colors and spacing that rstudio uses. I find that when I paste from SAS to Word, the formatting is preserved, but no dice here.
I would usually look for copy special / paste special options to do this, but I can't find any. When I try to paste special into word, only unformatted text options are presented. I would rather not reformat the text line-by-line, because I think it looks pretty nice in rstudio.
I thought of trying to save the script in rstudio to some format that would preserve its formatting, but I couldn't find any way to do this. How can it be done?
It's not totally clear whether you are pasting from RStudio's script editor (which has some 4 or 5 colors) or from the R console (script + output) within RStudio (which only has 2 colors).
If you are pasting from the console--please check "Paste special" again. There should be an option for "HTML Format" that will do what you need (though you may need to resize the font to make everything fit properly depending on your page margins).
If you are pasting from the script editor, then you're out of luck with a direct copy-and-paste solution. But there is a copy-and-paste-and-copy-and-paste solution...
One solution could be to use Notepad++. From RStudio, save your script (with a ".R" extension) then open the script in Notepad++. (Or copy and paste from RStudio to Notepad++, but make sure you set the file's language--from the "Language" menu--to R). When your script is correctly highlighted in Notepad++ go to the "Plugins > NppExport > Copy HTML to clipboard" menu to copy the open file. This can then be pasted into MS Word with HTML format.
Just in case someone else looks for this question...
Another way to have all the source code in a word document with a good-looking format using RStudio is to use the File/Compile Notebook option, choosing MS Word as the output format.
Using this option, a .docx document will be generated with the output of your script as well as the original source code. The script will be executed, though.
If you don't want your code to be evaluated (you just want a simple copy-paste), you can add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your script and then the source code will be reproduced in the word document without being evaluated.
This approach relies on knitr. Here is an example if anyone wants to start playing with this.
#' ---
#' title: "My homework"
#' author: John Doe
#' date: June 15, 2015
#' output: word_document
#' ---
# The header above sets some metadata used in the knitr output
# Conventional comments are formatted as regular comments
# Comments starting with "#+" control different knitr options.
#+echo=FALSE,message=FALSE,warning=FALSE
library(ggplot2)
#+echo=TRUE
#' Comments with a "+" sign are used to tell knitr what should be
#' done with the chunk of code:
#'
#' - echo: Show the original code or not
#' - eval: Run the original code or not
#' - message: Print messages
#' - warning: Print warnings
#' - error: Print errors
#' ...
#' Comments with an apostrophe "'" will be printed as regular text.
#' This is very useful to explain what you are actually doing!
# Regular comments can be used to document the code as usual
# Figures are printed:
ggplot(mpg, aes(x=cty, y=hwy)) + geom_point(aes(color=class))
#' Formatting **options** are possible.
#' Even [links](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10128702/how-to-preserve-formatting-from-rstudio-when-copy-pasting-to-word)
#'
#' This will show all the packages and versions used to generate this document.
#' It can be used to make sure that your teacher has all he needs to run your script
#' if he/she wants to.
sessionInfo()
Assuming you have internet access
Copy and paste to gist.gisthub.com
Select 'R' as the language - this should provide colours
Hit create (secret or public) gist
Copy and paste from the gist to your word processor.
Compared with the notepad++ solution:
An online backup to your code, with a recording of the time when you clipped it.
You don't have to install any other software, useful if you're a student using a public computer.
If you just need the code as formatted:
Step1: Just add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your code.
Step2: Then go to File -> Knit Document. Compile the file in msword/PDF/Html.
OR
Just add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your code.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+K and then compile the file in msword/PDF/Html.
If you need the code with output do not enter add #+eval=FALSE at the beginning of your code and perform step 2 directly.
I agree with zeehio that using Knitr is probably the best option. But another way is to use the Pretty R tool and the "open document text" steps here. Basically just copy and paste your code into pretty R, and copy and paste the output (not the html) into the open document.
After you copy from the Rstudio Console window and paste into a Word document, you need to highlight all the the just copied text and change the font into Courier New. This will give you the same spacing and lineup as you had in the Rstudio Console window.
Copy paste the code from Rstudio editor to 'visual studio code' & then again copy from there into a word processor.
For this to happen you must first install R extension in visual studio code.
'Visual studio code' is itself an IDE which can potentially be used for R language as well, but right now I'm emphasizing on using it to answer the above question.
In R I use the Monaco editor font. To copy paste the output of the R consol in Microsoft Word, I select the output of the consol, right click and copy and paste in my Word document. Once I have pasted the output in word, I select it and put it in Word's Monaco font and reduce the size of the font if necessary.
This does the job very nicely and perfectly preserves the output style from the R consol, as well as written chunks of code.
If you want to retain the formatting when coping a selection from the R Console you will need to install an older version of R Studio. Version 1.2.5042. it will not work in the newer versions
I've few word documents with Mail merge in them, I have to change the data source, but to do so I need to extract all the SELECT queries from these documents in order to detect the tables and fields being used. (I don't have access to the old datasource as it doesn't exist anymore).
I've been searching the whole day, and can't figure out how to extract or show the SELECT query applied to each document. When I run one document a dialog box pops open saying Word is going to run the following query SELECT X,Y.... but as the queries are quite big I can't see their whole structure, I can't resize the dialog box neither...
Is there a way to extract these selects?
If you open the word .docx file with an unzip utility program like 7-Zip this will reveal the folder/file structure within.
The root folders should be something like docProps, Word, _Rel. Look in the Word folder and open the "settings.xml" file. within this you should see the query (together with the database column mappings to fields within the document).
I tried this in Word 2007 mapping to a customers table and the query saved was:
query w:val="SELECT * FROM "Customer" "
Edit: extract from settings.xml (I had to strip out the < and > to get this to show up)
w:settings
xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships"
xmlns:sl="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/schemaLibrary/2006/main"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main"
xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
w:zoom w:percent="100"/
w:mailMerge
w:mainDocumentType w:val="formLetters"/
w:linkToQuery/
w:dataType w:val="native"/
w:connectString w:val="Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=True;Initial Catalog=Chinook;Data Source=NEWDELL\SQLEXPRESS;Use Procedure for Prepare=1;Auto Translate=True;Packet Size=4096;Workstation ID=NEWDELL;Use Encryption for Data=False;Tag with column collation when possible=False"/
w:query w:val="SELECT * FROM "Customer" "/
w:dataSource r:id="rId1"/
w:viewMergedData/
w:odso ....etc
Try pressing Alt + F11 in Word to open the VBA editor.
You should find at least one module, and I would imagine that whatever code it's executing will be within one of these.
If not, possibly a macro?