I am working on a project that does not depend on any MS API for open xml documents manipulation (this not a subject of change).
I need to be able to rename a sheet name in a arbitrary excel file.
Can somebody refer me to a page where all the possible references of a worksheet name are listed.
If your programming environment is Excel VBA, then your macro could:
open the arbitrary file
re-name the worksheet
save the arbitrary file
close the arbitrary file
For example:
Sub Macro1()
Workbooks.Open Filename:="C:\TestFolder\ABC.xls"
Sheets(1).Name = "NewName"
ActiveWorkbook.Save
ActiveWorkbook.Close
End Sub
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I'm new to python and doing a work project that involves juggling a lot (5-10k) of "places" (polygons representing regions) in google earth. As such, I wanted to run a list compare between the places I have in google earth against a txt file list of places I should have. The only problem is that I cannot seem to find a way to copy paste or otherwise capture the name text of the google earth places. Copying with control c or right click copy copies them as a KMZ file, or when pasted into a text editor gives the full source from their "properties" tab. I'm fairly confident in manipulating and comparing the lists once I have the data in that format, but could really use some help in attaining it as such.
First right-click on saved places in Google Earth and save as KML (text) file.
Next, you can use Python to extract the place names from the KML file.
Here's some sample code using pykml module to parse out the place names.
from pykml import parser
with open('places.kml') as f:
root = parser.parse(f).getroot()
# iterate over each placemark
for pm in root.Document.Placemark:
name = pm.name.text
print(name)
I want to change the data of a sample .pbix but when I'm updating the data can not find the path of the Excel since I don't have it. Is there a way without having it?
You can check exists source from Transform data --> data source settings and find the path of exists excel and in case if you did not found you can add other data sources to replace it.
I am trying to load csv files from a folder but I need to apply several custom steps to each file, including dropping the PromoteHeaders default.
I have a custom query that can load a single file successfully. How do I turn it into a query that loads all files in a folder?
By default, File.folder's "promoteHeaders" messes up my data because of a missing column name (which my custom query fixes).
The easiest way to create a function that reads a specific template of file is to actually do it. Just create the M to read it and by right click on the entity transform it to a function.
After that is really simple to transform your M so it uses parameters.
You can create a blank query and replace the code with this on as an example, customize with more steps to deal with your file requirements.
= (myFile) => let
Source = Csv.Document(myFile,[Delimiter=",", Columns=33, Encoding=1252, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None])
in
Source
And then Invoke Custom Function for each file with the content as the parameter.
I'm using the following code to add a Macro to Excel. I notice that the data / other WorkSheets from the original Excel had dropped completely but the Macro is showing.
This is the code that I am using:
import xlsxwriter
workbooks = xlsxwriter.Workbook('C:\\Users\\user\Desktop\\test.xlsm')
workbooks.add_vba_project('C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\vbaProject.bin')
workbooks.close()
I used the link http://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.io/example_macros.html and it seems to be the same from another page https://redoakstrategic.com/pythonexcelmacro/
I wondered if there is another library that I should use for this?
I tried the following link Use Python to Inject Macros into Spreadsheets it seems that here again the data from the original file is overwritten. Not sure if this is a duplicate or not, or if I missed something rather obvious ?
Thanks
Unfortunately, xlsxwriter can't load information from already existing Excel workbooks; it is only used for making new ones. You are overwriting your old workbook with a blank one that has your macros.
If you need to load information, look into openpyxl. It can be used for creating .xlsm files.
One way around it is to create the macro you want in another Excel so we can execute it to affect the other Excel. Then using win32.com it runs the VBA.
enter code here
#import win32com.client
#xl=win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
#xl.Workbooks.Open(Filename="C:\\macro.xlsm",ReadOnly=1)
#xl.Application.Run("macro")
#xl = 0
I am using Workbook gem to preview the excel file without page breaks in my website. Right now, I am successful in extracting the excel file and writing it into html format and display as preview.
The following code extracts and writes the excel to html:
excel_file = Workbook::Book.open "#{file_url}"
excel_file.write_to_html(file_name + ".html")
But this gives me an unformatted html sheet with no rows and columns or any of the existing excel file.
According to murb/workbook documentation, it is said that we can pass the format as a hash within its options.
write_to_html(filename = "#{title}.html", options = {})
So, to achieve the format hash, I tried the following code:
excel_file.template.formats
But this returns a null hash. So, how can i get all the formats from the excel file and write to html? Or at least show the html table with borders for all rows and columns.
The author here. The Workbook gem is mainly built to extract and rerepresent the data in files, and not so much the formatting. In the past I made a few attempts on adding support to maintain formatting when converting, but it is far from complete. Some importers don't even set the formatting hash as you found out, notably the xlsx importer needs work on this.
The HTML was built to simply give a basic preview of the data. It basically returns a html-page with all tables which is by default unformatted, although format-names are used in the classes. There is an option though, if you'd pass style_with_inline_css: true... but then it requires an importer to actually set the format hash properly...
I'm happy to guide you here and there when you want to improve the xlsx importer code to suit your needs and hopefully the workbook gem in general, but it will need serious work if you want more than just some background colours and font properties.