When making reports, multiple Excel documents are often used. As you know, data in another worksheet or other document, if it is open, we can easily access by specifying the absolute address of a cell or cell range. But what if we want to access a closed document? And can Excel be used as a data repository? About the link to other Excel files more in the text that follows.
Excel is a software with lots of features, but perhaps its best application is data analysis. In order to have something to analyze, we must retrieve the data. Operational data are held in relational databases, so we should connect to DBMS. Most of the time it is and istance of Microsoft SQL Server. When connecting we’ll importing a content of a table, view or result of a query into Excel worksheet.
Switching the Excel spreadsheet to another application like, for example, PowerPoint can be an inconvenient job. If it hates you to deal with details, there is a very simple way to do this, that is to convert the final table into an image, and then copy the image to the desired destination. This can be done using the Paste Special option, as well as using the Camera tool, and the following text will explain how to make the most of this option.
What is the most common problem for programmers and report makers? Certainly, it is a lack of adequate information they need to launch the report and see if it works. Data can be entered manually. But hey: imagine yourself to manually enter 100,000 records!?! This article demonstrates simple techniques to create tables with data to test the most demanding reports.
More than a year ago I noticed that my money is missing! I never doubted members of my family, but I started to check ATM transactions. Problem is that, most of the time, I take same amounts of cash. And since I am not very penny-wise it was very hard for me to „connect the dots“. Sounds familiar? That’s why I decided to end this phenomenon and started to track family’s incomes & expenses. I created „Simple Home Budget“ which helped me to track money transactions…