Comments on: Graphing Web Data

By: ross

ross — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:28:00 +0000

right click the mouse as pick as image as, or press the “Print Screen” Button on you key board, go to paint and press ctrl+V (ther ctrl button and V at the same time)

By: Ann Jay

Ann Jay — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:44:00 +0000

how can I download a stock chart directly from the Web as an image without downloading the data and making the chart in Excel?

Thanks,
Ann

By: hashas

hashas — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:10:00 +0000

can you help me to do this:

i have an excel book.
in it are sheets with web queries from some websites. these websites wants 'user login' & 'password'.
so then i open this excel book, it cant update data in web queries.
how to automate this process, that an excel book at opening would connect to these sites?

i would very happy for your answer.

By: ross

ross — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:42:00 +0000

Right all when to plan, here it is:

http://www.freewebs.com/methodsinexcel/XL%2097%20Web%20Query.zip

not an addin, just a .xls. I have it sat in my "personal workbook" always open with excel, and open it from a tool bar short cut.
Works ok for me.

By: ross

ross — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:55:00 +0000

I know that dick has an addin that looks at a dictionary site, but I don't know if this is a web query? - the sheets on this were hidden.

I'm going to try and write a little addin for xl97, that will allow you to run web queries with out having to pop out and manually save a text file. Should be very easy, if I can save a text file with the .iqy extension. Give me a few hours and see what I come up with.

By: Andy Miller

Andy Miller — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:53:00 +0000

On a related note, are Add-Ins and Web Queries incompatible?

I tried making a toolbar with a textbox that would display the current temperature.

The only way I could get it to work was if I set my IsAddIn property to False.

Otherwise, since the sheet that the query is on is not visible, the query is not called, so nothing based on that query will work. Is there another way?

By: ross

ross — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:10:00 +0000

For anyone using excel, you will need to edit a text file (there is probably an addin for this some where, but hey)

all you need to do is add the URL to a blank text file and then save it with the file extention ".iqy" , then you can go to run a web query on the extrnal data menu, and run it.

More info at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q157482

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:58:00 +0000

Dick, I swear I have never been happier. I was first impressed with the concept of tracking internet data through a web query - I hadn't gotten into that before. I was carefully reading your post for that reason, because I have a few applications for that sort of thing.

But I was blown away when I got to your name definition -- it gives you a variable-named-range . . . and it's so SIMPLE!

Thanks for such a healthy daily dose. You just made my day better!