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I wonder if some kind soul would help me write the following macro.
I'm an expert programmer (in some universe), so I don't need much hand- holding. But I'm not familiar with Excel/VBA objects, and my book is a poor reference text. I need help with syntax, not the program logic. I don't need tested syntax. Just something close enough that I can look up idioms to debug mistakes and refine the implementation. In other words, I don't expect a turn-key solution or someone to do all the work for me. Where's the fun in that? ;-) But I do hope someone can take 5-10 minutes to help me with the VBA idioms. Thanks. Basically, I need to reformat data that was columnarized in the original PDF, but when I saved it as text and import it into Excel, each word is put into a separate cell. I don't have OCR software, so I don't believe there is any other way for me to get the data into Excel. My thought is to write the following macro. Of course, if there is a better way, I'm all ears -- or should I say "all eyes"? :-) ' copy Sheet1 to Sheet2, changing format as we go for each row of cells in selection newRow = next row in Sheet2 copy columns A:D of selected row into newRow columns A:D copy last 2 columns of selected row into newRow columns F:G concatenate cells between first 4 and last 2 columns and put it into newRow column E where "selection" is all of Sheet1. I can do "selection" the hard way (actually select all cells). But if there is a way to refer to the limits of the worksheet without highlighting them, so much the better. I could go into details about what idioms I need. But if I were on the receiving end of this question, it would be easier for me to simply write the above algorithm in "approximate" VBA. That's what I am hoping some kind soul will do for me. No need to spend more than 5-10 min. No need to test it or even to enter it into the VBA editor. I'll take care of all that, if you can just give me a running start. (Of course, if you want to do more, that's up to you.) Thanks again. FYI, this is not a student assignment. I saved a PDF from a web site, and I want to sort and analyze the information using Excel. I had hoped to use the "fixed width" format to Import External Data. But I cannot coerce my revision of Adobe Reader to save the PDF in columnarized text. Save Text collapses all whitespace into one space, which is a problem because one of the PDF columns contains multiword entries. So I'm looking for a "quick and dirty" solution. Problem is: I'm not conversant enough in VBA to do anything "quick". If I could use C on a UNIX derivative, I would have been done in the time it took me to compose this posting. (Well, almost.) In the meantime, I will pick through my (poor) VBA book to see if I can figure this out myself. It's just that experience has taught me that "the answer is out there", but painfully hard to find in that book (the most-often recommended one, BTW). I have to go out for dinner now. I'm betting that some kind person in aother timezone can provide an "approximate" solution before I return. And once again, many thanks for your indulgence. |
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