filePro out to an existing Excel file

[Harwyn Berens]

         Thanks John.  You very succinctly describe my problem.  My .xls 
file already exists as it has been sent to us as an e-mail attachment with 
much of the pertinent information regarding the requested quote already in 
the .xls file.  Request for quote #, part name, part number, part 
description, due date, what kind of steel, mold size, required components, 
etc.  It gets transferred to C:\quotes and sits there waiting for someone 
to enter approx. 30 cells worth of answers (estimated costs) and then 
e-mail it back to the customer.  My filePro program calculates all the 
estimated costs for the quote and produces a filePro "quote" output.
         If as John says I knew how to "make an export put the filePro 
fields go into the right cells on....." my already existing .xls file,  I 
think I'd be in business!!

Harwyn Berens

At 01:47 PM 3/1/04, you wrote:
>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-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [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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