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Living Room / Re: Any VBA experts?

« on: February 24, 2019, 10:45 AM »

I have a sheet with lots of formulas and text called TEMPLATESHEET. This sheet is stored in a TEMPLATEWORKBOOK.

When I open any xls file, I want a macro that will insert to the active workbook, the TEMPLATESHEET.

However, the TEMPLATESHEET, has some formulas that refer to a sheet called REFERENCESHEET.

So, when the xls file I open has a sheet with the same name, REFERENCESHEET, I want the formulas for the TEMPLATESHEET to link to the REFERENCESHEET.

Would that be possible? I may have to search-and-replace the #REF of the TEMPLATESHEET to match the REFERENCESHEET, unless the TEMPLATESHEET will preserve the references and have them working.

I don't think there is more info than that available.

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Living Room / Any VBA experts?

« on: February 22, 2019, 01:25 PM »

Hello

I have an Excel sheet with formulas and text in hundreds of cells.

Is there a way to click a button and add this sheet to the active workbook, in any xls file I have opened?

Some formulas refer to a sheet with a specific name, so when this sheet is present in the workbook, the formulas must work.

Thanks!

128

Living Room / Re: How to automatically generate reports based on xls files?

« on: February 19, 2019, 08:32 AM »

I cannot find how to do this:

Range("A1").Formula = "This is some text ",TEXT((COUNTIFS(UDE!$AC:$AC,"Low",UDE!$G:$G,"High")+COUNTIFS(UDE!$AC:$AC,"MLD",UDE!$G:$G,"High"))/COUNTIF(UDE!$G:$G,"High"),"00%"))"
Range("A1").Formula = "=CONCATENATE("This is some text ",TEXT((COUNTIFS(UDE!$AC:$AC,"Low",UDE!$G:$G,"High")+COUNTIFS(UDE!$AC:$AC,"MLD",UDE!$G:$G,"High"))/COUNTIF(UDE!$G:$G,"High"),"00%"))"

Neither works, any idea?

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Living Room / Re: How to automatically generate reports based on xls files?

« on: February 19, 2019, 03:46 AM »

Thanks,
So far I plan to write a macro in excel that will create a new sheet and populate some cells with the formulas that calculate the numbers I want.
Then, I suppose I can use Mail Merge to grab the numbers from these cells and populate the report.

Would that be the best approach?

Or is it possible to do easily everything with Powershell or Word or Excel only?

130

Living Room / Re: How to automatically generate reports based on xls files?

« on: February 18, 2019, 02:30 PM »

I don't want you to do the job, I want to learn.

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Living Room / Re: How to automatically generate reports based on xls files?

« on: February 18, 2019, 10:39 AM »

Ideally, I would like to make use of Excel Functions, e.g. use the COUNTIF, INDEX/MATCH etc to find the numbers I need.

132

Living Room / How to automatically generate reports based on xls files?

« on: February 18, 2019, 10:17 AM »

Hello!

I have an MS Word document that I want some fields to be pulled from an xls file stored in a server.

For example:

1) a field would be the total number of lines of the xls apart from the header
2) a field would be the number of lines that the field under a specific header is the same as one or two values
3) a field would be the percentage of the above number of lines to the total number of lines

Do you know how to implement these? Is there an easy way?
I can do it in other tools if more easy, but they have to be part of MS OS, like Powershell, MS Office, etc.

Thanks!

133

Living Room / Re: Is it possible to have Microsoft Exchange account to Ymail Android app?

« on: November 27, 2018, 05:25 AM »

Fwiw, K-9 Mail for the app.

-4wd (November 21, 2018, 10:23 AM)

Absolutely seconded.  I've used K-9 mail since getting my first Android phone about nine years ago.  Love it.

-skwire (November 21, 2018, 09:04 PM)

Thanks will try it.
Do you get interruptions or asking for password when Ymail messes up with updates?

134

Living Room / Whatsapp functionality from PC

« on: November 26, 2018, 01:06 PM »

Hello!

I want to send text messages to numbers from my PC via Whatsapp.

The problem is that you need to create a contact first in your phone to be able to send a whatsapp message.

I want to ideally paste the number, type the message and click send. I am sending several messages as I am doing room hunting at the moment. Sending text messages is not as reliable and I want to be able to see when the recipient views the message etc.

Is there any solution?

135

Living Room / Re: How to find the file of a saved Snapchat video?

« on: November 22, 2018, 12:23 PM »

It was accidentally in a folder, got it thanks!

136

Living Room / How to find the file of a saved Snapchat video?

« on: November 22, 2018, 06:15 AM »

Hello!

How to find the file of a saved Snapchat video?
Search results only show how to save a video someone sent you on Snapchat.

Also, how do I start camera in RedMi Pro 3 since the icon has been deleted? Also how do I restore the icon?
Search results only show camera tricks.

Thanks!

137

Living Room / Android and web app for unified inbox?

« on: November 21, 2018, 08:17 AM »

Hello!

Is there a good Android app that has also web interface/app to access email accounts mainly Ymail, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange?

I am looking for one that is not blocked by my admin and it also has reliable and fast updated Android app, as ymail for example implement changes all the time and they interrupt their email function.

Ymail app does not accept MS Exchange mails and it is also blocked by my admin.
MS Outlook web app is not blocked but it is very slow using PaleMoon.
Gmail web is also blocked.

Any other proposals?

Thanks!

138

Living Room / Is it possible to have Microsoft Exchange account to Ymail Android app?

« on: November 21, 2018, 05:01 AM »

Hi

Is it possible to have Microsoft Exchange account to Ymail Android app?

139

Living Room / Is there a way to easily carry earphones for my mobile?

« on: November 13, 2018, 02:56 PM »

Hello!

Is there a way to easily carry earphones for my mobile?

I have bought some in a case but I would be interested in the minimal volume possible.

Thanks!

140

Living Room / Re: How to find the math relationship/graph between one or more variables...

« on: November 06, 2018, 03:33 AM »

Yes, MiniZinc.

Here is a tutorial for using it to solve a LP problem:
https://brilliant.or...lling-with-minizinc/

And two courses to dig deeper:
- Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimization
- Advanced Modeling for Discrete Optimization

-Attronarch (November 03, 2018, 02:15 PM)

Thanks that looks very interesting!
Does it work within excel or can I copy/paste my excel model? Or is there anything similar that will work within Excel? I tried Solver but it doesn't seem to work
If I have to build it from scratch using that language it will be a nightmare!

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Living Room / Re: How to find the math relationship/graph between one or more variables...

« on: November 02, 2018, 05:50 AM »

To understand which variable has the highest impact you can use regression analysis and ANOVA.

Assuming it is a linear process you can use linear programming for optimization. If not, you can look at other mathematical optimization models.

If I remember correctly, Excel has built-in solver for linear programming but it has to be activated.

-Attronarch (November 01, 2018, 02:01 PM)

Yes, I used Solver but it is very limited.
Is there a better tool?

142

Living Room / How to find the math relationship/graph between one or more variables...

« on: November 01, 2018, 04:55 AM »

Hello!


I have a complex model in excel. Among other parameters which I want to keep constant, I want to find the effect of each of four cells that contain variables (with some constrains) to a cell that is the result cell.

I want to find the optimum (minimum) four values to achieve the result I want and also find which of these four variables has the most significant effect on the result cell.

To give you some context, there are four teams that work in a very complex way and the four input cells are their employee number. The output cell has the end date of the project that is calculated with very complex way. How can I find which team is more worth to hire and how many?

Any idea? I am open to any freeware tool, etc.

Thanks!

143

Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« on: October 09, 2018, 04:22 PM »

What I am asking is not a google search and I don't have the time now to read a whole tutorial

144

Living Room / My first excel macro

« on: October 09, 2018, 09:48 AM »

Hello!

I want to write a macro in Excel that will use the 'Goal Seek' analysis.

The code is something like that:

Range("Q27").GoalSeek Goal:=0, ChangingCell:=Range("B10")

As for input cell (ChangingCell), when the macro button is pressed, I want to consider the active cell. How can I do that?
As for the goal seek cell, I want to a formula to calculate it based on other cells values.

Any hint?

Thanks!

145

Living Room / Re: Problem for very strong brains

« on: October 06, 2018, 02:19 PM »

Interesting Iain, I will have a look thanks!

No, it's not homework, it's real life problems for which I would just like opinions.

I developed a model, but I was wondering if there is a specialised tool or methodology.

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Living Room / Re: Problem for very strong brains

« on: October 05, 2018, 05:54 PM »

You can imagine it as if each file is a piece of string of specific length with five different regions (let's say coloured differently).

How can you determine the start and the end of each string in a timeline, placed one below the other, so that the thickness (total concurrent strings) are within the limits (people capacity) and the total length of the distribution of the strings is within specific length.

Hope I did not confuse you with that geometric analogue

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Living Room / Problem for very strong brains

« on: October 05, 2018, 05:26 PM »

Hello!

I have a problem that seems so common yet so tricky to manage. I wonder if there are any process tools or other methodologies to approach it. I would also like to generally discuss it and brainstorm.


I have 1000 files. I have a waterfall process of five steps that each file needs to go through one after the other.
Each of the five stages has its own speed (eg 5h per file, 10h per file etc), based on the average time of processing per file and the number of people available to process files in that stage.
You have a number of files to be processed (through all the stages) by a specific deadline.

How can you allocate the resources (people) to complete the files in the shortest time?
The tricky bit is that a specific number of people can do stage 1 and 3 only, and the rest can do stages 2, 4, 5 only.

To add to the complexity, you have additional bunches for files with different deadlines, let's say 2000 files to be completed three months after the first deadline and 5000 five months after the first deadline.

Any opinions?
I have some ideas but would like some input first.

Thanks!

148

Living Room / Any maths genius?

« on: October 01, 2018, 02:00 PM »

Hello!

I have 1000 files. Each day, 250 files are processed. Out of the processed files, 20% get completed. Out of the processed files, 80% files need reprocessing and they restart from the beginning, but after second processing, they get completed.

How can I model this in excel to show the decline of files to be processed per day? In a function, that I can drag to generate the sequence?

thanks!

149

General Software Discussion / Trickiest EXCEL formula problem ever!

« on: September 28, 2018, 10:53 AM »

Hello!

I have a row with dates that are start of weeks ongoing. Below that, I have one row with numbers. Below that, I have a row that I want to fill in with a formula.

In an independent cell, I input a date. Then the formula I want to fill in, checks if the date is future/past of the date at the top row in the same column. If future, it fills the cell with zero.
The problem is what I want it to do if the date is past.

I want to display the ratio of the number above in the middle row and the same column, with respect to the sum of the middle row numbers. The tricky bit is what exact sum I want it to consider.
I want the sum of the first cell in the column that the bottom line cell is not zero, up to the end of the row.

I need somehow to reference and store in a variable that. Or somehow calculate that ratio, considering the right sum, which is fixed once defined, but it is defined by the first cell that gets a non zero value.

I don't want to do this with a macro as I don't know anything about macros. Any help?

Thanks!

150

General Software Discussion / Is it possible to group names by fuzzy logic?

« on: September 26, 2018, 11:07 AM »

Hello!

My data has several client names. It is very often that there are several names of the group of one client.

For example, Batavia Insurance, Batavia Fund, etc probably belong to the Batavia group.

It would mostly work if I match the first word, so how could I write an Excel function to group/count entries that their cell has the same first word?

But it is not 100% safe, eg when you have PT Batavia Company and a prefix kills your algo.

I know it will never be 100% accurate, but do you have any idea how to approach this?

Thanks!