Excel Question

I have two worksheets that I export to a new workbook, without the formulas. I did this a few months ago, and have the new workbook saved.

The data has changed, and we have to export it again!

My problem was getting the formatting correct for the new sheets.

As long as it is correct now, couldn't I just paste the new data into each sheet as values?

Would it be easier to save the present new workbook as a template? Is that how templates work? Right now, I saved the template with the data in it.
Is this correct?

To copy the data, I just pasted special - values. Is there a better way?

We have to redo the first workbook, and do another one for someone else with different values, so I want to eliminate the having to do the formatting that I did once in the future.

Thanks in advance! :wave:

Will the formulas paste correctly (ie, will they have good references, etc.)? If they do, you can just do a normal paste (xlPasteAll). Then, to get the values in place of the formulas, just select what you just pasted, copy it again, and paste it as values (xlPasteValues) on top of itself.

I didn't think of that. I will give it a try. Thanks.

What I would do is spend some time making a template based on a copy of the
formatted spreadsheet, with or without formulas. Then save the template
without the data in it. Now, whenever I want to re-export data from the
workbook with all the formulas and data in it, I can paste the data into the
matching formatted template. I can then create as many formatted empty
spreadsheets as I want from the new formatted template.

As long as you dont need the formulas and I am reading the question correctly.

HTH

That's kind of what I was hoping for. I didn't know if I had to remove the values from the template or not. We have two sheets with 3600 prices on it. One sheet has 1 price per cell, and the other has a price and a size for every two cells. Putting lines around them was brutal, and I don't want to have to do it again.

I thought that I would only need the one template. Everytime I pasted data into it, I would save it as a workbook, without overwriting the original template. Is this right?

You can do this some many different ways it will probably be a matter of preference.

You can write module code to do the formatting of the sheet upon the
workbook_open procedure and have it import a text file to fill the data. Then
save the workbook as a different name. Similar to a template.

You could do the template procedure I posted earlier.

You could copy the file and delete the values. Then paste in the new values. And on and on ....:D

I would need to enter 5 values, then recalulate the 2 worksheets, and then export them and format them. I may look into a macro to do it. I'll post back if I run into problems.

Thanks.