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Automatically updating multiple Excel worksheets from one "master" worksheet?

entropicamericana — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:54:41 -0800

How to automatically breakout Excel worksheets based off one "master' worksheet? I inherited an Excel spreadsheet that is being used to to track individual orders. It is built so each order has its own row and the columns reflect various information (i.e. state)

My boss wants data entry done on the "master" worksheet. Then he wants the other sheets to automatically update given certain criteria. (For example, all orders placed in California.)

Let's say the state column is Column A and the values are simple two letter postal codes.

How would I write a function that would say if A2 is CA, then paste 2 here and if A2 is not CA, go to row 3 and check for CA?

What were those Hoffy papers?

rikschell — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:00:46 -0800

Does anyone remember Hoffy papers? Obscure elementary-school learning machine memory (pre-1980 edition) ... When I was in the primary grades, we would sometimes go to a special room and do worksheets using a special machine that I remember very little about. This was in the late 70s, in the midwest USA, at a Catholic school, so the machine was likely old already. The worksheets were standard color and shape matching stuff, Kindergarten or 1st grade, and they featured a furry monster who looked like Grover from Sesame Street (except I think he was red), and his name was Hoffy. I'd bet it was linked with some company with a Hoffman name, but that's only a guess. Google does nothing for me, but the worksheets were printed, not dittoes, so it couldn't have been just me!

I need a free and robust math worksheet generator

booksherpa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:37:56 -0800

I need a free and robust math worksheet generator, and don't care whether or not it's a script, web-based, or software. It should produce addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems; create addends, minuends, subtrahends, multiplicands, multipliers, divisors and dividends with as many digits as I specify, within reason; and ideally, export to Excel, or at least cut and paste accurately to there. Being able to throw decimals in would be nice, but I'll pen them in before I photocopy the sheet if I have to.

There's a number of worksheet generators online, but it's hard to find ones that go beyond 4 or 5 digits. Right now I use some online generators, and make up the rest of the problems myself, using Excel as the framework for placing numbers in columns. Excel's random number generator doesn't work the way I need it to for this - I have each digit of the problem in its own column for alignment. For the tougher problems I make the grid behind the worksheet visible and let it serve as graph paper - it helps the students line up their work, particularly partial products and long division.

Can anyone point me to some page I've missed in my extensive Google searches?

Merge Excel worksheets?

ewiar — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:23:34 -0800

What's the easiest way to merge data from multiple Excel worksheets into one big worksheet I have a workbook with 223 worksheets. Each worksheet contains information about a given geographic area. The information for any given variable is in the same cell each time. I would like to convert this into one big worksheet.
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Example of what I have:

Worksheet 1 [Area 1]:
Blue: 3
Black: 5
Green: 4

Worksheet 2 [Area 2]:
Blue: 5
Black: 2
Green: 5
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Example of what I want

ONE BIG WORKSHEET
Area, Blue, Black, Green
1, 3, 5, 4
2, 5, 2, 5
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If, for example, the value for 'Blue' will always be in cell B3, then, essentially I want a macro that works like this:

For i < 224
BIGSHEETBi=SHEETi!B!3

excel macro n00b

beammeup4 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:27:37 -0800

I need help writing a macro that will divide a 5000 row table into groups of 30 rows, and find the average of certain columns in each group. I've got a data table with blood pressure readings taken at 1-second intervals. I need help writing a macro that will take the table, divide the data into groups of 30 rows and spit out the average of certain columns in each group (I need one column for systolic, diastolic, MAP, etc., however, the table contains columns of irrelevant data), which will in effect give me averages other 30-second intervals.

To make things more complex, the actual readings start at row 48.

Can Excel copy text from cell in one worksheet to cell in another?

msacheson — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:17:57 -0800

MS Excel help, please. I'm creating a multi-sheet workbook, and cells on one sheet will contain the same text as cells on another sheet. Is there a way I can avoid having to enter the text on each sheet? Is there a function that will automatically copy text from a cell on one sheet to a cell on another sheet?