Comments on: External Data Properties Whats This Help

By: Surendra

Surendra — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:15:00 +0000

Hello Guys,

I have an Excel with multiple worksheet. Some of the worksheets are populated using External Data thru MS query. and Other worksheets are attached and summarized with these external data worksheet.
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I populate a worksheet(COL A thru COL O) and then creates 4 additional columns (say COL P, COL Q, COL R AND COL T. COL P is the concatenation of COLC+ YEAR/MONTH FROM COLB, COL Q concatenation of (COL A,COL C), COL R is the SUM of Col N+ COL O and Col T IS THE sum of COL D.

When I entered concat formula for COL Q in cell Q2 - no problem.
When I entered concat formula for COL R in cell R2 - no problem.
and now I clicked REFRESH/REFRESH ALL BUTTON, everything works fine. Point to be noted here is Still I didn't entered formula for COL P. I save the file and got out. No issues

I open the file again no problem, everything looks ok and in place. No I entered concat formula for COL P in cell P2 , and save, No problem

My problem at this stage of game
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When I click the REFRESH/REFRESH ALL button again, all the values gets replaced in the COL P2, Q2 and R2 with LABEL FOR COL P, COL Q AND COL R. This happens only when MQ-Query returns 1 row only.

There is no macro or VBA code running behind the scene. I am not able to figure out how the P2, Q2, R2 cell gets populated with the col LABELs. I have trying to figure out this but so far no success..

I have used "Override existing cells with new data and fill down formulas ..." option

Please let me know if everything is clear here and any help will be greatly appreciated!

sba

By: Owen Davies

Owen Davies — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:41:00 +0000

I'm also interested in having an external data range refresh on open WITHOUT the annoying pop up. The MS suggested registry edit does me no good because I cannot change the baseline in my enterprise.

Would it be possible to use VB in the Workbook_Open() function to tell the external data range to refresh itself? If so I could get the effect of having the Refresh Data on File Open box checked without the ugliness.

By: Farzooq Hussain

Farzooq Hussain — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:58:00 +0000

Is it possible to export an access table to excel and whenever I add something in access table. The excel exported table should be updated automatically.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:18:00 +0000

That’s odd Gregg because it works for me. Make sure you don’t have any other columns between your external data and the formulas – check for hidden columns. Also, if you recreate the external data table, say through VBA, instead of just refreshing it, this wouldn’t work. If you want to provide more information about the formula and the steps you are taking, we may be able to troubleshoot this.

By: Greg Muir

Greg Muir — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:36:00 +0000

Fill down DOES NOT WORK. I have a big data dump in one of my sheets and I have column A serve as an index for it. Based off of conditions in that dump, I concatenate a reference number that is then referred to from another sheet. Every few days I have to go back in and copy down the formulas. The data range keeps growing and growing but the formulas are left right where they were.

By: Andy Miller

Andy Miller — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:08:00 +0000

I have a few comments about MS Help and this thread.

First, I think some people are confusing online help with... well, online help. Dick is referring to internet-based online help, I believe, whereas I think some of you are referring to any electronic help file.

Second, I've been more and more disappointed with MS Help with each 'upgrade' lately. I miss having an Index in the help section. Sometimes you're not really sure what you're looking for (or the term that MS uses for an action or object), so browsing through the index can save time.

I personally preferred the help files/methods of a few years ago to the way things are done now.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:58:00 +0000

Michael -

I just bought QuickBooks, because my accountant doesn't want to deal with Excel files. Probably a good idea, since Excel allows each of his clients to set up a unique layout.

Anyway, they provide a pamphlet, a terse reference guide (~100 pages), and a coupon to buy the Official Guide on line. I suppose if I want to know how to display my numbers in a particular format as easily as I can in Excel, I'll have to pony up the additional cost of this book, in addition to the cost of the software itself.

By: XL-Dennis

XL-Dennis — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:12:00 +0000

Dick,

Does the NDA allow You to comment on this subject from what You've seen in Excel 2006?

Kind regards,
Dennis

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:19:00 +0000

It seems that so many companies other than MS are moving more and more to online help. It certainly reduces the cost of having to kill all of those trees and ship all of the weight associated with a paper manual twice as thick as “War and Peace.” Being a bean counter myself, I can see the advantages to the cost savings, but in every aspect of everything I do, it just seems it would be faster to pick up a book and look it up.

One of my favorites is QuickBooks (I think). They give you a book of really basic stuff then refer you to online help for more info.

Stupid corporate suits.

By: Billkamm

Billkamm — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:56:00 +0000

First Page 2000 is a pretty good program. Personally I would use notepad.exe before I ever paid for software to edit HTML. Although I hear Dreamweaver is an amazing piece of software.