Conversion of Excel Matrix

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Runnik

I have an Excel spreadsheet that is set up as follows:

A B C D
E F
1
Customer
2
Prod. Family
3
Description
4
Part Number
5
Revision
6
Material
7 Process Sub-process Equip. Make Equip. Model Equip. ID {op. #}
8 Process Sub-process Equip. Make Equip. Model Equip. ID {op. #}
9 Process Sub-process Equip. Make Equip. Model Equip. ID {op. #}

Columns A-E contain the types of processes and machines, and rows 1-6
contain information about each part manufactured. So there will be a fixed
number of processes and machines, but a variable number of customer parts.
The data within the matrix, where I'm indicating {op. #}, is only filled in
if that part has a manufacturing operation for that particular
process/machine.

Is there a way do display my data like this in Access? If so, how? The
reason I'd like to have it in Access is that the spreadsheet is not large
enough to contain all the required data. The spreadsheet layout is nice
though, because you can see large amounts of data at once, and can compare
parts / manufacturing processes side-by-side.
 
Runnik,

You can DISPLAY data in a report ALMOST any way you like. (There are
exceptions but not many.) It all depends on how your tables are set up.
(There is also an option to link to Excel which MIGHT work better for you.)
If you provide us with some Data Models (table set up and relationships) we
can give you options for FREE. Please note, when I say WE I mean everyone
EXCEPT Steve.

--
Gina Whipp

"I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors
II

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Steve said:
I would like to offer to setup the Access application for you for a small
fee. I provide help with Access, Excel and Word applications for a small
fee. If you are interested, contact me.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)
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If stevie was any good he would not need to pimp his services in FREE help
forums.


These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the past year to
show Stevie's "expertise".


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)
Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.
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Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...


Sept 10, 2009
(In respose to a perfectly adequate GENERIC solution stevie wrote)

This function is specific to the example but not generic for any amount paid
out.

Steve



Sept 9, 2009
Steve said:
you can then return all the characters in front of it with the Left()
fumction. Would look like:
Left("YourString",Instr("YourString","VbCr" Or "VbLf") - 1)

Steve
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No, it would not look like

Left("YourString",Instr("YourString","VbCr" Or "VbLf") - 1)

First of all, the constants are vbCr and vbLf: no quotes around them. With
the quotes, you're looking for the literal strings.

Second, you can't Or together character constants like that. Even if you
could, Or'ing them together in the InStr function like that makes no sense
at all.



John... Visio MVP
 
Runnik said:
I have an Excel spreadsheet that is set up as follows:
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Can I ask why you would want to do this? Maybe you are under the impression
that Access is a beefed up Excel, which it most certainly isn't. If excel
does the job then I'd say stick with it.

Regards,

Keith.
www.keithwilby.co.uk
 
Gina Whipp said:
If you provide us with some Data Models (table set up and relationships)
we can give you options for FREE.
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And not only free, of superior quality too.
 
I guess my message didn't come through how I had it laid out. My replies to
people below.

Karl Dewey said:
Crosstab query.
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A crosstab query shows summary data, which is not what I am looking for.


Gina Whipp said:
Runnik,
Click to expand...
You can DISPLAY data in a report ALMOST any way you like. (There are
exceptions but not many.) It all depends on how your tables are set up.
(There is also an option to link to Excel which MIGHT work better for you.)
If you provide us with some Data Models (table set up and relationships) we
can give you options for FREE. Please note, when I say WE I mean everyone
EXCEPT Steve.
Click to expand...

Link to Excel how? I've got a lot built up already, and I'm not sure I could
adequately describe it all in writing. I was hoping I'd be able to post
attachments in this forum, but I guess I can't.


Keith Wilby said:
Can I ask why you would want to do this? Maybe you are under the impression
that Access is a beefed up Excel, which it most certainly isn't. If excel
does the job then I'd say stick with it.
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I know the two programs are used for different purposes. I inherited a mess
of a spreadsheet, and I thought a database would be a better application, so
I wanted to convert it. In Excel, I am running out of columns (256 is the max
#). Yes, I could transpose all the data in it, but there's also the problem
of not being able to link a couple tabs together that need to be linked.
Thus, my wanting to put the data in Access. Maybe I need to rethink the
layout of the data, and find another way that works for what I need.
 
Runnik said:
Maybe I need to rethink the
layout of the data, and find another way that works for what I need.
Click to expand...

I would certainly agree with that, although my experiences of normalising
hugely complex Excel spreadsheets are not happy ones.

Keith.
www.keithwilby.co.uk
 
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