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Yep. Starting points for instructions can be difficult to pinpoint. I used to
joke to my co-workers that I really don't want to tell them how to set their alarm clocks and get ready for work--much less document their path to work--or how to find the on/off switch on the pc. But I read Gord's instructions and they seemed quite reasonable to me bg. If I were you, I'd revisit his instructions and try it once more. If you have questions, post back with the steps you followed (which could be difficult to document vbg). You may find that Gord's function useful later--or you may find that you need something different that can't be done in MSWord. Just a thought (or two). David wrote: I tried it that way, I honestly did. Then reverted to including content that should, clearly, have been replaced. I entered the phrase 'A2:A150' and also A2,A150' just to be sure. But, whilst the help and advice of experts such as yourselves is greatly appreciated, do understand that it's sometimes easy to forget just what degree of detail is needed in describing how to do someting. I've been an IT trainer and do have some experience of this. Imagine telling someone how to drive a car, who's never seen one before...how would you describe changing gear? In terms of a gearstick? Of second and fourth etc? What's a gear?? Anyway, I got there in the end. And to my mind, it's a shame that Excel has so much trouble doing something so simple. Concatenating data in cells. Word can do it! Thanks for all your interest. -- David Kitching Msc. Msc. Managing Director Natural Deco Ltd. The Manor Manor Lane Loxley Warwickshire CV35 9JX UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1789 470040 Mob: +44 (0) 7799 118518 www.naturaldeco.co.uk "Pete_UK" wrote in message ups.com... Too late, Gord, he's already done it using Word. Anyway, Dave told him that yesterday. Pete Gord Dibben wrote: David There is no exclamation mark in my code. I think that when you copied the code you also copied the Usage instructions. Just copy the part from Function ConCatRange(CellBlock As Range) As String down to and including End Function Gord On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:33:51 +0100, "David" wrote: Many thanks for this. But I keep getting the message'Compile Error: Expected: list seperator or )' and the exclamation mark in the code becomes highlighted. David Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi David,
To me it looks like you are trying to create a .csv (Comma Separated Values) file, which Excel is perfectly able to create with a File, Save As and for more troublesome stuff you can use a macro Comma Separated Values, .CSV files http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/csv.htm Are you Sure you need everything in one cell. After you get everything in one cell, what do you do with it. If it is simply paste it into notepad then you could have created the flat file directly out of Excel. Create CSV files from each sheet in selection, Dave Peterson, 2005-09-15, public.excel http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...zonXSPAM.ne t =-- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "David" wrote in message ... Hi I have a list of a couple of thousand postcodes in a column in a spreadsheet. Each postcode occupies its own cell. Examples of each postcode might be AB10 or AB11 or AB12 etc. I want to cut and paste these postcodes to another sheet, many codes to be pasted into single cells. I tried to merge the cells as they stand so that I could collectively copy and paste them but excel says that the cells contain multiple data values and won;t let me merge them. Can anyone tell me how to do this without cutting and pasting the contents of each cell, one at a time please? Many thanks Dave |
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But saving as a .csv file, which I tried, just seemed to produce a file
which, when opened, looked exactly the same as the .xls, with everything in cells. OK, I now know that if I rename the csv to a txt, I can open it in wordpad and get my data in a column without cells, copy it all and paste special it as unformatted text. But that's what I did anyway, using word. I need the data in nine cells because it's used to generate a table in a sql database where a website will check a custoemrs postcode and, depending on which column the postcode occurs in, it can apply a shipping charge appropriate for listed quantity ordered. Cheers David -- David Kitching Msc. Msc. Managing Director Natural Deco Ltd. The Manor Manor Lane Loxley Warwickshire CV35 9JX UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1789 470040 Mob: +44 (0) 7799 118518 www.naturaldeco.co.uk "David McRitchie" wrote in message ... Hi David, To me it looks like you are trying to create a .csv (Comma Separated Values) file, which Excel is perfectly able to create with a File, Save As and for more troublesome stuff you can use a macro Comma Separated Values, .CSV files http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/csv.htm Are you Sure you need everything in one cell. After you get everything in one cell, what do you do with it. If it is simply paste it into notepad then you could have created the flat file directly out of Excel. Create CSV files from each sheet in selection, Dave Peterson, 2005-09-15, public.excel http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...zonXSPAM.ne t =-- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "David" wrote in message ... Hi I have a list of a couple of thousand postcodes in a column in a spreadsheet. Each postcode occupies its own cell. Examples of each postcode might be AB10 or AB11 or AB12 etc. I want to cut and paste these postcodes to another sheet, many codes to be pasted into single cells. I tried to merge the cells as they stand so that I could collectively copy and paste them but excel says that the cells contain multiple data values and won;t let me merge them. Can anyone tell me how to do this without cutting and pasting the contents of each cell, one at a time please? Many thanks Dave |
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On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:06:06 +0100, David wrote:
I ended up: creating a second column where each cell contained just a comma and a space. creating a thrid column where the other two were combined. Copying the whole third column and pasting it into Word. Merging the relevant cells in Word and then special pasting each merged cell contents as unformatted text.. Then each bit was cut and pasted back into each of the 9 cells. Took all day but it's done! if you were going to use word you could have just replace *newline* with ", " -- Steve (3) |
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So your database will only have 9 entries - fair enough
Just all seems odd manipulation of data for end result. Steve On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:36:53 +0100, David wrote: But saving as a .csv file, which I tried, just seemed to produce a file which, when opened, looked exactly the same as the .xls, with everything in cells. OK, I now know that if I rename the csv to a txt, I can open it in wordpad and get my data in a column without cells, copy it all and paste special it as unformatted text. But that's what I did anyway, using word. I need the data in nine cells because it's used to generate a table in a sql database where a website will check a custoemrs postcode and, depending on which column the postcode occurs in, it can apply a shipping charge appropriate for listed quantity ordered. Cheers David |
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