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Merging Cells
Me thinks there must be a better way of importing the data
Steve On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:34:21 +0100, Pete_UK wrote: That means you would want to combine about 323 cells into each composite cell, and with a comma between each postcode (with an average length of 7 characters, say) this means you will have 2584 characters in each combined cell. Pete David wrote: ...because I want all of the contents of every cell to be combined in to a single cell, comma delimited. [and preferably with a space as well, after each comma]. This is for putting the data into a postcode lokup database for determining shipping costs. About 2900 codes are to be split over 9 cells. "MartinW" wrote in message ... Hi David, I'm not sure I understand your problem. Why do you want to merge the cells before you copy them? Surely you can just highlight the entire column right click on it and select copy, then open your new sheet right click in A1 and select paste. Or am I missing something here? HTH Martin |
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David wrote:
...because I want all of the contents of every cell to be combined in to a single cell, comma delimited. [and preferably with a space as well, after each comma]. This is for putting the data into a postcode lokup database for determining shipping costs. About 2900 codes are to be split over 9 cells. "MartinW" wrote in message ... Hi David, I'm not sure I understand your problem. Why do you want to merge the cells before you copy them? Surely you can just highlight the entire column right click on it and select copy, then open your new sheet right click in A1 and select paste. Or am I missing something here? HTH Martin When you say a postcode lookup database. What type of database? Most database program support importing of various file types. As one other poster suggested, there must be a better way. With more info someone here might be able to suggest one. gls858 |
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I did that. I really did, although this is new to me. I'm not entirely IT
illiterate though and I did try a few intelligent variations, but Excel is very precise, rightly so, and unless you know what you're doing...anyway, I couldn't get it to work. -- 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 "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... Everything between these two lines in Gord's function: Function ConCatRange(CellBlock As Range) As String End Function goes into that General module in the VBE--including those two lines! And then you'd use something like: =ConCatRange(Sheet1!A1:A43) (from sheet2, say) or just =ConCatRange(A1:A43) from the same sheet. You may want to take a look at Gord's instructions one more time. 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 -- 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 "Gord Dibben" gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... David You say "many" to a single cell. You can combine data from many cells to one cell by using a formula like =A1&B1&C1&D1&E1&F1 etc. If "many" is a great whack you might do better with a User Defined Function. Function ConCatRange(CellBlock As Range) As String Dim cell As Range Dim sbuf As String For Each cell In CellBlock If Len(cell.text) 0 Then sbuf = sbuf & cell.text & "," Next ConCatRange = Left(sbuf, Len(sbuf) - 1) End Function Usage is =ConCatRange(Sheet1!A1:A43) or your choice. I would not use this on more than about 200 cells at a time. Excel won't show all the characters past about 1000 characters. If not familiar with VBA and macros, see David McRitchie's site for more on "getting started". http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm In the meantime.......... To create a General Module, hit ALT + F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor. Hit CRTL + R to open Project Explorer. Find your workbook/project and select it. Right-click and InsertModule. Paste the above code in there. Save the workbook and hit ALT + Q to return to your workbook. Enter the formula as shown above. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:53:38 +0100, "David" wrote: 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 Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP -- Dave Peterson |
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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! -- 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" wrote in message ... Thats right... As a matter of fact, I've just spent all day doing it manually. -- 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... That means you would want to combine about 323 cells into each composite cell, and with a comma between each postcode (with an average length of 7 characters, say) this means you will have 2584 characters in each combined cell. Pete David wrote: ...because I want all of the contents of every cell to be combined in to a single cell, comma delimited. [and preferably with a space as well, after each comma]. This is for putting the data into a postcode lokup database for determining shipping costs. About 2900 codes are to be split over 9 cells. "MartinW" wrote in message ... Hi David, I'm not sure I understand your problem. Why do you want to merge the cells before you copy them? Surely you can just highlight the entire column right click on it and select copy, then open your new sheet right click in A1 and select paste. Or am I missing something here? HTH Martin |
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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 |
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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 |
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Yesterday!!
Where has the time gone?g I'm definitely getting lapped. Gord On 1 Sep 2006 14:47:30 -0700, "Pete_UK" wrote: 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 |
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Today for us in the USA. vbg
Gord Dibben wrote: Yesterday!! Where has the time gone?g I'm definitely getting lapped. Gord On 1 Sep 2006 14:47:30 -0700, "Pete_UK" wrote: 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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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 |
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Oh no, it wasn't yesterday - it was about 1:30pm (my time, it being
11:10pm now). It just seems like ages ago. bg Pete Gord Dibben wrote: Yesterday!! Where has the time gone?g I'm definitely getting lapped. Gord On 1 Sep 2006 14:47:30 -0700, "Pete_UK" wrote: 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 |
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