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    Hello folks!

    I am fairly new to Excel. I did study some VBA and functions in school, but haven't used advanced Excel capabilities for some five years now.

    The main reason for my writing is the need to automate some functions. I am trying to open an online record shop and the items/products on sale, can be uploaded to Wordpress via CSV file. So I am trying to find a way to make Excel return the right text values at the correct cell.

    Main questions which have risen:
    - I don't remember a function, which will let me return two text values to one cell.
    - how to add pictures to a row.
    - haven't found a way to create unique IDs for products. So that Excel would keep record of which have been used and so on, without the need to keep all records fixed in their positions. (Some will be deleted anyway and created in between rows so that they would be alphabetical.

    My main goal would be to create a main catalog for my records and then a macro(?) to make the CSV file from that catalog.

    There are a lot of tutorials out there, but it is hard for me to find the right one. If someone with experience could point me at the correct function or tutorial, I could easily read and work my way through them.

    Thank very much,
    Fipster

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    Re: Large automated database

    - I don't remember a function, which will let me return two text values to one cell.
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    - how to add pictures to a row.

    http://www.excelforum.com/excel-prog...r-picture.html

    - haven't found a way to create unique IDs for products. So that Excel would keep record of which have been used and so on, without the need to keep all records fixed in their positions. (Some will be deleted anyway and created in between rows so that they would be alphabetical.
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    Re: Large automated database

    Sounds like a tall order. I suggest you work on implementing 1 item at a time. First design now you want your spreadsheet to look (or how it will look when exported from your software), then ask a specific question like

    "I want this column/row/cell to take values/look at/ verify text/numbers from this column/row/cell and return this value/text."

    If you are talking about doing all of this in a CSV file, then I think many of your requests will be impossible. CSV files will not retain formulas (they convert them to value constants) or pictures (removes them) or VBA code (removes it).
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    Re: Large automated database

    Thank you Oeldere. I got the values and pictures right and it all works with Wordpress. I didn't get the ID numbers right, but will keep on trying.
    Now the biggest challenge will be to figure out a way to automate picture html creation.

    Wordpress works really smoothly with CSV files. It only needs the values not formulas and html links. Thanks for the answer ChemistB

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    Re: Large automated database

    Whoops, still new
    Last edited by fipster; 08-18-2014 at 03:00 PM. Reason: Duplicate posts, sorry.

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