Showing posts with label Microsoft Excel 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft Excel 2013. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

MS Excel: Enclose text in double quotes

Assuming that the target column with the text values is A:

1) Create a new column with the following expression: = """" &A1 & """" at the first cell. Drag\Double click to fill the whole column.

2) Copy the values from this new column, and paste them Paste Special --> Values into a third column. Drag\Double click to fill the whole column.

3) You can now delete the original column A and replace it with the column in step (2)

Sunday, 27 April 2014

Excel 2013: Removing a defined named range\data table

For normally defined name:
1) Formulas menu.
2) Name Manager.
3) Select the range and delete.


In my case that was a result of a query which generated the named data table:
1) Select the range from the drop down list beside the formula bar.
2) Right click on any cell within that range, and select:
Table --> Convert to Range





The reason I wanted to get rid of that named table in the first place was that filtering and sorting the data inside it was separated from the main sheet.

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Microsoft Access: Error copying data to Sharepoint

Error Reproduction:
1) Open Excel file in Access
2) EXTERNAL DATA --> More --> SharePoint List


Error message:
There was an error copying data to a SharePoint list.Duplicate output destination 'Title'.



Workaround:
In my case that was a column with the title "title", just by removing it from the source Excel sheet, the export completed successfully, and even with the column title in the destination!

Another recommendation I read somewhere was to rename the Excel sheet filename to eliminate any special characters, which wasn't my issue.