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    Pulling data from multiple excel files

    I run a report every month.
    For 10 offices.

    So in 4 months, I have 40 reports.

    Say we have
    Month 1 (10 excel files in this folder)
    Month 2 (10 excel files in this folder)
    Month 3 (10 excel files in this folder)
    Month 4 (10 excel files in this folder)

    Each of this files has the following data,
    Column 1 Header : Office Name
    Column 2 Header : Product Sold
    Column 3 Header : Dollar value

    (along with a bunch of other columns).

    I want to automate this,
    1. Create a new excel file, and write a script that'll look into each of the 40 files and pull Columns 1 and Columns 3 for a specific office name...

    Any help appreciated.

    Thanks !
    Last edited by sstocki; 11-04-2014 at 09:39 PM.

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    Re: Is this even possible ? (difficult task)

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    Re: Is this even possible ? (difficult task)

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    Re: Is this even possible ? (difficult task)

    vlookup ?

    do you know of a tutorial I can look at that deals directly with this ?

    thanks

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    Re: Pulling data from multiple excel files

    Quote Originally Posted by sstocki View Post
    I run a report every month.
    For 10 offices.

    So in 4 months, I have 40 reports.

    Say we have
    Month 1 (10 excel files in this folder)
    Month 2 (10 excel files in this folder)
    Month 3 (10 excel files in this folder)
    Month 4 (10 excel files in this folder)

    Thanks !
    wow I see this growing into 1 huge headache! It would make more sense if you could put them all into 1 file, on different tabs?

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    Re: Pulling data from multiple excel files

    You my friend need AutoHotkey.

    I know there is a AHK script out there that pulls data from multiple files in seconds.

    Google AutoHotKey Excel

    (I don't want to break rules by posting links, not sure if that is allowed or not)

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