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Chart data from text file
I have my x- and y- values as tab-separated values in a text file. There are
many different files, so it is too cubersome to open them all convert them all to Excel. Is there any way I can create a chart that reads its data from a text file? |
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
hmm said: I have my x- and y- values as tab-separated values in a text file. There are many different files, so it is too cubersome to open them all convert them all to Excel. Is there any way I can create a chart that reads its data from a text file? I haven't dealt with it myself, but I understand something called ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a good way to read external files that aren't Excel into Excel. You'll need to learn to use ODBC, and make or find an ODBC driver for tab-separated text files. Perhaps one of the other Excel newsgroups can help you with this. It's a bit outside the remit for microsoft.public.excel.charting, since it's all about the stages that come before using the Excel spreadsheet's small and limited graphing function. After you've found out how to bring in the data, you can make an Excel Chart the same way you normally would (except you may have to use named ranges instead of spreadsheet cell reference ranges). -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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You can point a pivot table at external sources, but you have to then
somehow give it the key to unlock the structure of the source. A CSV file isn't hard, and the PT brings in the data, but then it's tied up in a pivot table. I've just always written some technique in VBA to let a user choose one or more files, dump the files into a new Excel sheet, and add the data to a new or existing chart. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Del Cotter" wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, hmm said: I have my x- and y- values as tab-separated values in a text file. There are many different files, so it is too cubersome to open them all convert them all to Excel. Is there any way I can create a chart that reads its data from a text file? I haven't dealt with it myself, but I understand something called ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a good way to read external files that aren't Excel into Excel. You'll need to learn to use ODBC, and make or find an ODBC driver for tab-separated text files. Perhaps one of the other Excel newsgroups can help you with this. It's a bit outside the remit for microsoft.public.excel.charting, since it's all about the stages that come before using the Excel spreadsheet's small and limited graphing function. After you've found out how to bring in the data, you can make an Excel Chart the same way you normally would (except you may have to use named ranges instead of spreadsheet cell reference ranges). -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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