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    Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    Hi all,

    Hope you can help me out.. I am hoping I can get some assistance with creating a macro to ask a user to select a work book to import and then it will only had the 1st 2 work sheets from the selected workbook.

    Then it will ask the user what name it wants to find.... then user inputs the name and the macro searches the 2 newly imported worksheets in column A and B, and if it 'contains' the name then will copy it to a results worksheet (and copy row 2 as a static line from each of the work book to differentiate which sheet it came from)





    1. Import button:

    Action: Pop ups box "please select the workbook you would like to import"

    ....the Macro then Imports document\workbook > adds only worksheet 1 and worksheet 2 from the selected workbook (the workbook that is selected could be anywhere on the users C:\*)



    2. Pop up box2:

    "Enter in the name you want to search for"
    2a. ie: 'Sarah' is entered by the user. The macro finds anything in column 'A' & B on both worksheets that were imported in Step 1 that Contains 'Sarah'.
    2b. The macro should then add the results to a new worksheet titled "Results" in the workbook.



    Note1: if Sarah is found in for example column A row 17 and column B row 17 then only 1 instance of this should be copied to the results page.

    Note2: When the results are copied from worksheet 1 (work sheet 1 is actually the macro page, so when I say worksheet 1 I am referring to the 1st work sheet that was imported) row 2 should be copied also as this is the column headers. The same applies for worksheet 2 as the column headers can be different to worksheet 1's.

    I hope I havent you!


    Thanks in advance guys!!!
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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    This may help...

    Ive added an example document. thanks so much guys
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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    Hi

    How about adding another sheet to show what the result sheet would contain from this example if say you were looking for Sarah.

    If you are just trying to determine if the user is found, and which sheet contains the info, why don't you simply specify the sheet name rather than importing a heading row???

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    Heya, thanks for your reply,


    I have added a results page example - if the user is enters 'sarah'
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    Hi

    See how this goes. IT assumes that the current workbook structure exists (ie there is a Macro Page, Sheet2, Sheet3 and Results).

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    Thanks,

    I tried though am getting an Runtime eror '1004' Application-defined or object-defined error at this point "Sheets(1).Copy Destination:=ThisWorkbook.Sheets("sheet2").Range("A1")"

    I have the following sheets in the workbook "Macro" "Sheet2" "Sheet3" and "Results"

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    Hi

    Attach your working book, and an example file that would be opened and imported and I'll have a look.

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    First observation is that sheet may need to be Sheet

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    sure thing rylo.

    I have attached the MACRO masterwoork book and a dummy workbook to use as the document to import.


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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    Hi Dave,

    I spotted when i was reading the code, I change it though still didnt work ...

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    Hi

    A couple of small changes

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    Thanks a heap, That worked like a charm!

    One thing though, when i imported the actual work book 20,000 rows in 1 work sheet , 5000 in the other, i waited 15 minutes and it was still going so i cancled it. can you think of a way to make it more efficient?

    I was thinking possibly for the macro to check if the Colum A and B in both worksheet (anything below row 2) does not contain the keyword in either of the columns for those rows to be deleted, then the macro code you created can kick in... would that speed it up? is that possible?

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    This is a little strange,

    Depending on what I type as the keyword it either goes very quick or very slow.

    ive added a progress bar and for some of the them (the quick ones) i can see the progress bar moving and for the ones that take forever i dont even see a progress bar. It is brain straining some where.

    Task manager says Excel is not responding, and it is using 99% of the CPU at the same time.

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    Hi

    What sort of keywords are you using? Given you say that the keyword determines the speed of things, what are you using?

    Also, for the fast responses, how many items are being returned? Same for the slow ones - is it bringing back a lot of matches?

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    Another thought. Do you have any formulas, or things that require calculation in your real data sheets? If so, try turning off the auto calc and see if that speeds things up.

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    Same for only 2 returns and the same for 50 ........ it works 95% of the time (fast). ive done about 50 searches, and it only crashes a couple of times on 2 specific words. im going to de-bug further, i will let you all knwo if i can find it.

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    okay, i think it may have been a memory issue as now it is working no matter what i search on.

    Thanks for your help guys, great work as always!

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    OK. Don't forget to go back to your original post and mark it a SOLVED.

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    Re: Import, 2 X pop up box & consolidate

    it is now working! thanks for your help rylo... great work, im so happy


    I think it was a memory issue in the end as i ended up puting in some breakpoints and it was clean... then it worked and as been working since no matter what i search on. It takes around 5 seconds to search through 25000 rows.

    thanks again

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