filePro out to an existing Excel file

[John Esak]

Hi,
How do you make the export put the filePro fields go into the right cells on
your spreadsheet... I would love to see the processing table. Thanks.
Come on the room and tell us or show us, also. Thanks.

John


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Dennis
> Malen
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:57 PM
> To: Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services;
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: filePro out to an existing Excel file
>
>
> I've been doing this for about a year as our customers have requested the
> same.
>
> 1. Create a filepro export that mirrors the spread sheet that you
> are using.
> I create this in Unix.
> 2. FTP (or other approach) from Unix to your windows box.
> 3. Once I get the file in windows I use an extension of ".txt".
> 4. I open excel and import the .txt file. I do this because I have to make
> some changes to some of the fields. You may not need to.
>
> This works perfectly. I am sure there are some short cuts I could use to
> bypass some of the manual things I do.
>
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services" <mschw at athenet.net>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:01 PM
> Subject: RE: filePro out to an existing Excel file
>
>
> > From: Harwyn Berens <hlb at pop3.wmis.net>
>
> > I'm wondering if it's possible to get a filepro output form's output
> > into an already existing Excel file.
>
> I've done a *lot* of this work with spreadsheets.  The technique
> that you should use will vary, depending on what the original spreadsheet
> looks like and exactly what data has to be posted into it.
>
> If the incoming Excel sheets are standardized, it might be easiest
> to create a filePro file that exactly matches the layout of the
> Excel file,
> then import the spreadsheet, work with it in filePro, then export
> the entire
> sheet.  (I only mention this, because I had to spend a couple of hours
> yesterday modifying some import and export functions for one of
> my customers
> because *their* customer changed the layout of the incoming Excel sheet.)
>
> Sometimes I just export a small .CSV or .DIF file out of filePro and
> cut and paste columns into the original sheet.
>
> fpODBC may be the ultimate method, if you have very complex Excel
> spreadsheets with lots of interactive formulas in them.
>
> To answer your question generically, because I don't have any of
> your specific spreadsheets to look at and I don't know the layout of your
> existing filePro files, I've never failed to find some kind of
> solution that
> combines filePro with Excel in order to save my customers a big
> chunk of the
> time that they would otherwise have to spend doing manual data entry.
>
>
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