Comments on: Excel Scripting Question http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:09:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Kevin Hillabolt http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question#comment-18671 Kevin Hillabolt Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:57:00 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question/#comment-18671 It is ugly and very painful, but Excel fully supports VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). I'm not sure if Office for Mac supports VBA the same as Windows. YMMV. Without to much effort, one could craft a little VB code to export each of the sheets as a text file. In the Windows environment, you could probably even reference a component (DLL) to handle the FTP portion as well. A brief sample of code is available here: <a href="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1210651&page=8">http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1210651&page=8</a> <i>Note that the sample page only exports the current active sheet. You would have to include additional logic to handle multiple sheets as you mentioned...</i> It is ugly and very painful, but Excel fully supports VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). I'm not sure if Office for Mac supports VBA the same as Windows. YMMV.

Without to much effort, one could craft a little VB code to export each of the sheets as a text file. In the Windows environment, you could probably even reference a component (DLL) to handle the FTP portion as well.

A brief sample of code is available here: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1210651&page=8

Note that the sample page only exports the current active sheet. You would have to include additional logic to handle multiple sheets as you mentioned...

]]> By: Erik J. Barzeski http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question#comment-18670 Erik J. Barzeski Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:31:59 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question/#comment-18670 Dave, you're missing the point. They want to use Excel because a lot of the same people keep the same groups, so moving columns and rows around in Excel is much easier than doing so in text. And no, save as HTML is NOT an option in the least for more than obvious reasons. Dave, you're missing the point. They want to use Excel because a lot of the same people keep the same groups, so moving columns and rows around in Excel is much easier than doing so in text. And no, save as HTML is NOT an option in the least for more than obvious reasons.

]]> By: Dave'ola http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question#comment-18669 Dave'ola Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:29:08 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question/#comment-18669 It might be easier to have them continue to use the TXT file and if they want to put it into an Excel file, convert *from* the TXT to Excel (instead of the other way around). Nowadays, the copy on the web tends to be *the* master copy; when not, it tends to be neglected and outdated. I suppose (worst case) you could have them simply do File -> Save as HTML (I believe Excel has some version of this functionality in recent versions) and then upload that via FTP. It might be easier to have them continue to use the TXT file and if they want to put it into an Excel file, convert *from* the TXT to Excel (instead of the other way around). Nowadays, the copy on the web tends to be *the* master copy; when not, it tends to be neglected and outdated.

I suppose (worst case) you could have them simply do File -> Save as HTML (I believe Excel has some version of this functionality in recent versions) and then upload that via http://FTP.

]]> By: Daniel http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question#comment-18668 Daniel Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:09:03 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/04/23/excel_scripting_question/#comment-18668 If they're using a new version of MS Office, Office files are now (or can easily be) XML files. If that's the case, XSLT could be useful here. If they're using a new version of MS Office, Office files are now (or can easily be) XML files. If that's the case, XSLT could be useful here.

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