You will observe that even with all Excel files in the Survey reports folder closed, the INDIRECT.EXT function will display the data from respective cells of those Excel files.
=INDIRECT.EXT("'C:\Users\Ashish\Desktop\test\Survey Reports\Sheet1'!"&A$1) In cell A3 of sheet1 of Book1.xlsx, enter the following formula and copy till C3 and downwards Morefunc should now appear under the Formulas Tab in the Ribbonĥ. Check the following three boxes - Morefunc (add-in functions), Morefunc Tools and Morefunc12 Go to Files > Options > Addins > Manage Excel Add-ins > Goį. Navigate to the following folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Library and paste the files thereĮ. Navigate to the following folder C:\Program Files\Morefunc and copy three files - Morefunc, Morefunc11 and Morefunc12Ĭ. Unzip the downloaded folder and double-click on the Setup fileī. For Excel 2010, the process for installing this addin is as follows:Ī. In Excel 2007, once this addin is installed, it will appear under Formulas > Morefunc.
For MS Excel 2007 and prior versions, one can simply download, install and use this addin. This addin will allow us to use the INDIRECT.EXT function.
Download and install the Morefunc addin from here. To generate this list of Excel files names automatically, refer to the following post.Ĥ. From cell D3 downwards, type names of all Excel files (along with their extension i.e. In sheet1 of Book1.xlsx, type C4, R9 and C16 in A1:C1ģ. All files in the Survey reports folder should be closedĢ. You may follow the process mentioned below to extract data from specific cells of multiple closed Excel files.ġ. While one way is to open each file manually and then link individual cells, this is a very time-consuming process if there are many files in the Survey reports folder. Likewise, in sheet1 of Book1.xlsx, one may want to show in A4:C4 data from cell C4, R9 and cell C16 of the second Excel file from the Survey report folder and so on. Therefore, in sheet1 of Book1.xlsx, one may want to show in A3:C3 data from cells C4, R9 and cell C16 of the first Excel file from the Survey report folder. In another workbook (say Book1.xlsx), one may want to extract data from specific cells of all Excel files lying in the Survey report folder. if there is an Operator Names in cell C9 of one Excel file, then in other Excel files as well, there will be the operator name in cell C9 itself. All the Excel files have the same structure i.e. In the Survey report folder, there are multiple Excel files. In this Test folder, there is another folder named Survey reports. As we deciminate this data to non-Labview users we have to provide reliable means for them to utilize the format (or I start getting requests to write data in flat binary or even worse ASCII!).Assume a folder named Test on the desktop. It is currently our "standard" collection format in our labratory. tdms format is its stability, size, speed, self documenting. The information there is incomplete/vague/ambigous (time stamp is not properly defined for decoding, the version number is not properly defined for decoding, it is unclear as to when data objects may or may not show up, etc.). That is why I went to the NI page that I linked to. Honestly, I have never been able to get it to work either.
Therefore when software versions change, we are all stuck until NI catches up. As mentioned previously in this thread, the problem with the page you linked is that it is a compiled non-open c dll. Please let me know if you experience any other problems or have any feedback as I would like to perfect this. See the attached m file (you will need to change the extention back to ".m"). I found the problem and believe I have fixed it. I don't want to have the burden of making/distributing a LV executable that makes this interim file format and then creates a. The Excel TDMS add-in is very nice and is a good reason to use the TDMS format (in addition to its good support in VI libraries), but I often have to fend off requests to write large ASCII or flat binary files (in addition to our TDMS files) so that they can be read in MATLAB. This is what I have done (and thanks to Matt for the timestamp help). As the internal TDMS format is not changing and only low level matlab commands are required to read it, I believe that Matlab users have been looking for a simple Matlab function to just take a tdms file and make a similar. Since it is a compiled C library, we're stuck and can not modify it. įor about a year now, the Matlab pluggin has been out of date and would not work with the last 3 releases of MATLAB.
When we distribute this to other researchers, they often use MATLAB (and of course Labview). We take data in our labratory using the TDMS format.
Dave, I see that the MATLAB pluggin was just updated to include MATLAB 2008b.