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One of our clients have requested a way to generate reports from dat exported into Excel by a program they're using. The exported data will reside in an Excel file as raw data in a coupl of cells. One row of cells is supposed to be one row of text in th report. So the mapping should be easy. The thing I'm not sure about is how users should activate the "repor generator". I know enough VBA, so that's not the problem. What I don' know is where to implement it. It needs to be really simple for them t use. Should I write a template? a macro? Can they install a new butto on their Excel toolbar? Is it called a module? I'm totally lost. Ideally, I would like for them to open up the raw data Excel file an then just push a button in Excel to generate the report. I don't wan to have them first open up "my program" and then import the raw data. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance -- phreu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- phreud's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...nfo&userid=983 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=31483 |
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Sound like you want an addin that creates a menu item when it is loaded:
http://www.microsoft.com/officedev/i...htm#distribute Distributing Microsoft Excel 97, Word 97, and PowerPoint 97 Solutions (March 3, 1997) http://www.microsoft.com/exceldev/tips/addins.htm Protecting the Code in an Add-in http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/XLCrAddns.htm Creating Add-ins in Microsoft Excel 97 Here is another article or two you might find useful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ba...n_addins97.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/of...exceladdin.htm Here is an article about creating commandbars with code: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/ofcmdbar.htm -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "phreud" wrote in message ... One of our clients have requested a way to generate reports from data exported into Excel by a program they're using. The exported data will reside in an Excel file as raw data in a couple of cells. One row of cells is supposed to be one row of text in the report. So the mapping should be easy. The thing I'm not sure about is how users should activate the "report generator". I know enough VBA, so that's not the problem. What I don't know is where to implement it. It needs to be really simple for them to use. Should I write a template? a macro? Can they install a new button on their Excel toolbar? Is it called a module? I'm totally lost. Ideally, I would like for them to open up the raw data Excel file and then just push a button in Excel to generate the report. I don't want to have them first open up "my program" and then import the raw data. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance! -- phreud ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phreud's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=9832 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=314830 |
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"Tom Ogilvy" a écrit dans le message de news: ... Sound like you want an addin that creates a menu item when it is loaded: http://www.microsoft.com/officedev/i...htm#distribute Distributing Microsoft Excel 97, Word 97, and PowerPoint 97 Solutions (March 3, 1997) http://www.microsoft.com/exceldev/tips/addins.htm Protecting the Code in an Add-in I'VE HEARD ON THESE FORUMS THAT SUCH PROTECTION IS ILLUSORY BEING BROKEN IN "TWO SECONDS". THE ONLY SOLUTION I'VE HEARD OF IS DEPORTING THE CODE IN A DLL. aNY IDEA ABOUT THIS TOM? THANKS. PAT http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/XLCrAddns.htm Creating Add-ins in Microsoft Excel 97 Here is another article or two you might find useful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ba...n_addins97.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/of...exceladdin.htm Here is an article about creating commandbars with code: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/ofcmdbar.htm -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "phreud" wrote in message ... One of our clients have requested a way to generate reports from data exported into Excel by a program they're using. The exported data will reside in an Excel file as raw data in a couple of cells. One row of cells is supposed to be one row of text in the report. So the mapping should be easy. The thing I'm not sure about is how users should activate the "report generator". I know enough VBA, so that's not the problem. What I don't know is where to implement it. It needs to be really simple for them to use. Should I write a template? a macro? Can they install a new button on their Excel toolbar? Is it called a module? I'm totally lost. Ideally, I would like for them to open up the raw data Excel file and then just push a button in Excel to generate the report. I don't want to have them first open up "my program" and then import the raw data. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance! -- phreud ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phreud's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=9832 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=314830 |
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The question didn't ask about/wasn't about protecting code - so I wasn't
suggesting this as a code protection scheme. But you are correct; there is very little solid protection offered inherently by Excel. Then again, Excel is an end user tool - not a development environment. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "PM" wrote in message ... "Tom Ogilvy" a écrit dans le message de news: ... Sound like you want an addin that creates a menu item when it is loaded: http://www.microsoft.com/officedev/i...htm#distribute Distributing Microsoft Excel 97, Word 97, and PowerPoint 97 Solutions (March 3, 1997) http://www.microsoft.com/exceldev/tips/addins.htm Protecting the Code in an Add-in I'VE HEARD ON THESE FORUMS THAT SUCH PROTECTION IS ILLUSORY BEING BROKEN IN "TWO SECONDS". THE ONLY SOLUTION I'VE HEARD OF IS DEPORTING THE CODE IN A DLL. aNY IDEA ABOUT THIS TOM? THANKS. PAT http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/XLCrAddns.htm Creating Add-ins in Microsoft Excel 97 Here is another article or two you might find useful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ba...n_addins97.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/of...exceladdin.htm Here is an article about creating commandbars with code: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/ofcmdbar.htm -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "phreud" wrote in message ... One of our clients have requested a way to generate reports from data exported into Excel by a program they're using. The exported data will reside in an Excel file as raw data in a couple of cells. One row of cells is supposed to be one row of text in the report. So the mapping should be easy. The thing I'm not sure about is how users should activate the "report generator". I know enough VBA, so that's not the problem. What I don't know is where to implement it. It needs to be really simple for them to use. Should I write a template? a macro? Can they install a new button on their Excel toolbar? Is it called a module? I'm totally lost. Ideally, I would like for them to open up the raw data Excel file and then just push a button in Excel to generate the report. I don't want to have them first open up "my program" and then import the raw data. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance! -- phreud ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phreud's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=9832 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=314830 |
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