I suppose that's an option. IF I change the program so that all the report data is held in a temporary table, then it's possible you can bring up a browser and the user can then export to spreadsheet. That would work for a simple report format, but not if the printed report has things like column headers, break headers, totals, etc. None of that would come with a temp table without significant programming.
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Tony IJntema <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Dec 29, 2020 4:34 pm Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel - FOUND IT! Karen, You don't need to have access to the full Rbase version. If you browse a table then your are able to export the table to Excel. This also can be done in a compiled environment. The feature I like there is that you even don't need to have Excel installed Like this: It is very fast and the produced spreadsheet is excellent Tony Op 29-12-2020 om 22:24 schreef 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L: Yes exactly, the numbers are coming to Excel as text. When you select the "print to file / Excel" (3 excel options) in each case a dialog box comes up with a few options you can select, but none of them are anything like "keep numbers as numbers". Perhaps there is such an option in the Gateway Export utility, but I was asked about the print preview option to go to Excel since they don't have access to the full RBase version. Karen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Dec 29, 2020 3:08 pm Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel - FOUND IT! If I understand correctly, you have number columns/variables in R:base that are coming to Excel as text? Is there a feature to keep the type, i.e. keep them as number so you do not have to make the conversion in Excel? I seem to recall an option to do this but maybe it is in the EXPORT utility rather than reports. L Javier, Javier Valencia, PE [email protected] O: 913-829-0888 C: 913-915-3137 From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel - FOUND IT! Tony mentioned those little green markers and that rang a bell! That used to annoy me seeing those things so I turned that option off! I turned the option back on, I get the green markers, and can do the convert and my sum works fine!!! In case anyone wants to know how to turn those markers on/off, you pick "file / options", Formulas tab: Karen -----Original Message----- From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Dec 29, 2020 9:24 am Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel Tony: I've seen those green markers before, but in this case (I'll repeat my print-screen here) for some reason there is no green marker on these cells. Yet my =SUM still isn't working. Here's my sum below: If I type a "2" over one of those 1s, the sum shows 2: Karen -----Original Message----- From: Tony IJntema <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, Dec 29, 2020 9:15 am Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel Karen, You can do it this way: Select all figures you like to convert (the green marker up left is showing that the number is stored as text) Select the exclamation mark and then a right mouse click You should see the menu as below (sorry in Dutch) The second option is convert to number. Hope this helps. Tony Op 29-12-2020 om 15:35 schreef apstock: Karen, Highlight the cell you want to convert to numbers. To the left of the top most cell there will be an excel symbol which one can select to change the formatting of the highlighted cell. On 12/29/2020 9:19 AM, 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L wrote: Steve: can you do a print-screen of that? I've highlighted the numbers and cannot find the option box that you're talking about (perhaps we're on different versions). Since the list allows pics now, post the print-screen to the list in case someone else can use this very helpful tip! Karen -----Original Message----- From: Steve Johnson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Dec 28, 2020 8:28 pm Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel Karen, You have to convert the column numbers displayed (which are in text format) to numbers. Formatting the cells using the format option does not work. Highlight the range of column cells (not the header) and to the left of the top cell in the option box, (looks like a small diamond with an ! point), choose convert to number and it will work. I have monthly reports where I have to do the same thing. One thing to note, if your spreadsheet is more than one page and the columns shift, particularly on a subsequent page, tinker with the report object placement for the range of cells that moved. I also usually have blank rows of cells from the page break that have to be trimmed off using ‘delete row cells’ in Excel. Then the columns are contiguous and then I convert (or the staff does) the range of cells within a column to a number so they can use the =sum formula as needed. Steve Johnson From: 'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RBASE-L] - Report output to Excel Haven't played around with this in a while, but someone requested instructions. If I have a report to the screen and do a "print to file" picking Excel (either 2003 or xlsx), it formats pretty well. If I bring up Excel and want to insert a sum by using the =SUM(....) it shows up as 0. If I do each individually as a cell (such as: +A1+A2+A3) then it adds up the numbers, but not when I do a =SUM. Obviously using the + isn't good if I want to add up hundreds of lines. Is this an Excel issue? I tried a couple things: 1. I left my =SUM in the spreadsheet. If I type over any of the numbers, my sum works (but only on the numbers that I typed over) 2. If I highlight some of the column of numbers and "format cells" and change it, it doesn't work. For example, I had a column of integers and did a "format cells" to change it to a number with 2 decimals, and it leaves the column untouched. Other individual calculations work (such as +B1/A1) just not the =SUM. Anyone getting that to work? Karen -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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