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We have an excel spreadsheet which reports against a mySQL database and reads time spent on projects by IT Service colleagues. The main report is a pivot table with staff members along the top, tasks down the first column, and time spent in the form of person days in the cross-join.
Thought I'd put a quick note here, I tried a fair few solutions that didn't work and then found this hidden away in a forum: Quick Count =INT(SUMPRODUCT((A3:A1000<>"")/COUNTIF(A3:A1000,A3:A1000&""))) This returns the number of unique values in the range A3 to A1000 and excludes the blank/empty cells. Display all Unique...
The Situation I have a Microsoft Excel 2007 file that connects to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The Excel file pulls data using lookup tables and displays the data in an Excel Spreadsheet. The Problem We can select all cells and set row height to be 30 for example, but everytime we refresh the data in the Excel spread...
So I googled this for a while and there are a lot of solutions out there, none of which applied to what we meant and lots of people in the same boat. The Situation We have an Excel report which summarizes for our guys at the top, all the activities and time spent by staff. There are several filters available on the rep...
Following up on my article on correcting disappearing headers, a further issue with our web-report is that even an export to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports 9, created extra columns. This issue could not be replicated on the client machine (ie. from my workstation). I would have to upload the report to the serve...
If you've been to the point where you're exporting a report to Excel, and only some of the column headers appear, then try this: I googled this for ages and found different suggestions here and there but none of them produced consistent results. One solution was to untick "Simplify page headers" on the Excel Format Opt...
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