Questions tagged [excel]
Only for questions on programming against Excel objects or files, or formula development. You may combine the Excel tag with VBA, VSTO, C#, VB.NET, PowerShell, OLE automation, and other programming related tags and questions if applicable. Do NOT use with other spreadsheet software like [google-sheets].
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How do I create an Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) file in C# without installing Microsoft Office?
How can I create an Excel spreadsheet with C# without requiring Excel to be installed on the machine that's running the code?
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What is a correct MIME type for .docx, .pptx, etc.?
For older *.doc documents, this was enough:
header("Content-Type: application/msword");
What MIME type should I use for new .docx documents? Also, for pptx and xlsx documents?
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How do I properly clean up Excel interop objects?
I'm using the Excel interop in C# (ApplicationClass) and have placed the following code in my finally clause:
while (System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(excelSheet) != 0) { }
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How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Microsoft Excel both in-cell and loops
How can I use regular expressions in Excel and take advantage of Excel's powerful grid-like setup for data manipulation?
In-cell function to return a matched pattern or replaced value in a string.
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Excel to CSV with UTF8 encoding [closed]
I have an Excel file that has some Spanish characters (tildes, etc.) that I need to convert to a CSV file to use as an import file. However, when I do Save As CSV it mangles the "special" Spanish ...
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How to avoid using Select in Excel VBA
I've heard much about the understandable abhorrence of using .Select in Excel VBA, but I am unsure of how to avoid using it. I am finding that my code would be more re-usable if I were able to use ...
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Is it possible to force Excel recognize UTF-8 CSV files automatically?
I'm developing a part of an application that's responsible for exporting some data into CSV files. The application always uses UTF-8 because of its multilingual nature at all levels. But opening such ...
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Stop Excel from automatically converting certain text values to dates
Does anyone happen to know if there is a token I can add to my csv for a certain field so Excel doesn't try to convert it to a date?
I'm trying to write a .csv file from my application and one of the ...
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'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine
I'm trying to get data from an Excel file on a button click event. My connection string is:
string connString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\\source\\SiteCore65\\Individual-Data....
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Is there a way to crack the password on an Excel VBA Project?
I've been asked to update some Excel 2003 macros, but the VBA projects are password protected, and it seems there's a lack of documentation... no-one knows the passwords.
Is there a way of removing ...
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What is correct content-type for excel files? [duplicate]
I want excel files on a website to open in Excel when clicked, not get saved on desktop, or get opened embedded in a browser etc. Now obviously it all depends on how everything is configured for each ...
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How to convert a column number (e.g. 127) into an Excel column (e.g. AA)
How do you convert a numerical number to an Excel column name in C# without using automation getting the value directly from Excel.
Excel 2007 has a possible range of 1 to 16384, which is the number ...
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Setting mime type for excel document
MS Excel has the following observed MIME types:
application/vnd.ms-excel (official)
application/msexcel
application/x-msexcel
application/x-ms-excel
application/x-excel
application/x-dos_ms_excel
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Using Pandas to pd.read_excel() for multiple worksheets of the same workbook
I have a large spreadsheet file (.xlsx) that I'm processing using python pandas. It happens that I need data from two tabs (sheets) in that large file. One of the tabs has a ton of data and the other ...
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Convert xlsx to csv in Linux with command line
I'm looking for a way to convert xlsx files to csv files on Linux.
I do not want to use PHP/Perl or anything like that since I'm looking at processing several millions of lines, so I need something ...
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