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I am designing a VB app that will automate (via ADO from a db) an Excel
Spreadsheet which is maintained by my client. This spreadsheet is already predetermined and the cells where the data goes is already laid out. I want to give flexibilty to the user by allowing them some functionality to allow the user to change the spreadsheet without changing my code. I want to keep all of my code in my app not in Excel. I was playing around with the idea of using a template file (data, xml...) that will layout where the data goes to each cell. I have also looked into using named ranges and pivot tables (this spreadsheet is used for quoting a product and not analyzing data). I am leaning towards the template file or named ranges because it gives me flexiblity and it does not require the user to have alot of knowledge of excel. Any thoughts? Thanks |
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Sounds like success depends on the user's ability to indicate to your
application where the data should go. I guess it then depends on what the user feels most comfortable with and can understand. I don't see a pivot table offering much flexibility - but then I don't know what your sheet looks like or what flexibility you envision. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "will" wrote in message ... I am designing a VB app that will automate (via ADO from a db) an Excel Spreadsheet which is maintained by my client. This spreadsheet is already predetermined and the cells where the data goes is already laid out. I want to give flexibilty to the user by allowing them some functionality to allow the user to change the spreadsheet without changing my code. I want to keep all of my code in my app not in Excel. I was playing around with the idea of using a template file (data, xml...) that will layout where the data goes to each cell. I have also looked into using named ranges and pivot tables (this spreadsheet is used for quoting a product and not analyzing data). I am leaning towards the template file or named ranges because it gives me flexiblity and it does not require the user to have alot of knowledge of excel. Any thoughts? Thanks |
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Tom,
The client has already given me a spreadsheet with the cells set for the data. I just wanted to design my app to give the user the ability to move cells around if needed without me recompiling. Also, I hate to hardcode cell ranges in my code. Do you have any other suggestions to approach this? Thanks "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... Sounds like success depends on the user's ability to indicate to your application where the data should go. I guess it then depends on what the user feels most comfortable with and can understand. I don't see a pivot table offering much flexibility - but then I don't know what your sheet looks like or what flexibility you envision. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "will" wrote in message ... I am designing a VB app that will automate (via ADO from a db) an Excel Spreadsheet which is maintained by my client. This spreadsheet is already predetermined and the cells where the data goes is already laid out. I want to give flexibilty to the user by allowing them some functionality to allow the user to change the spreadsheet without changing my code. I want to keep all of my code in my app not in Excel. I was playing around with the idea of using a template file (data, xml...) that will layout where the data goes to each cell. I have also looked into using named ranges and pivot tables (this spreadsheet is used for quoting a product and not analyzing data). I am leaning towards the template file or named ranges because it gives me flexiblity and it does not require the user to have alot of knowledge of excel. Any thoughts? Thanks |
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have them write the list in a hidden sheet and read it from there.
-- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "will" wrote in message ... Tom, The client has already given me a spreadsheet with the cells set for the data. I just wanted to design my app to give the user the ability to move cells around if needed without me recompiling. Also, I hate to hardcode cell ranges in my code. Do you have any other suggestions to approach this? Thanks "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... Sounds like success depends on the user's ability to indicate to your application where the data should go. I guess it then depends on what the user feels most comfortable with and can understand. I don't see a pivot table offering much flexibility - but then I don't know what your sheet looks like or what flexibility you envision. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "will" wrote in message ... I am designing a VB app that will automate (via ADO from a db) an Excel Spreadsheet which is maintained by my client. This spreadsheet is already predetermined and the cells where the data goes is already laid out. I want to give flexibilty to the user by allowing them some functionality to allow the user to change the spreadsheet without changing my code. I want to keep all of my code in my app not in Excel. I was playing around with the idea of using a template file (data, xml...) that will layout where the data goes to each cell. I have also looked into using named ranges and pivot tables (this spreadsheet is used for quoting a product and not analyzing data). I am leaning towards the template file or named ranges because it gives me flexiblity and it does not require the user to have alot of knowledge of excel. Any thoughts? Thanks |
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