Copying Data From SQL Into Excel

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Lonnie Schwindt

When I copy a range of data from SQL and paste it into
Excel, the data doesn't appear to be available for
formulas - in this case a VLOOKUP formula. However, once
I click in the formula bar (as if to edit the data) then
hit "return" the data is "magically" available for the
VLOOKUP formula. It seems to me to be a format problem,
but changing the format of the data doesn't help. Could
this be related to similar issues when copying data from
Access into Excel? Are there any workarounds?
 
It sounds similar to the Access problem. Instead of pasting, you can
choose Edit>Paste Special, and choose csv or Text.

Or, do a normal paste, and then change the data back to numbers:

1. Select an empty cell on the worksheet
2. Choose Edit>Copy
3. Select the cells that you pasted from Access
4. Choose Edit>Paste Special
5. Select Add, click OK

If you do this frequently, you can use a macro to paste as csv:

'=======================
Sub PasteCSV()
ActiveSheet.PasteSpecial Format:="Csv", _
Link:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub
'========================

Or to convert the numbers:

'=============================
Sub ConvertToNumbers()
'by Jon Peltier
Cells(65535, 255).Copy
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, _
Operation:=xlPasteSpecialOperationAdd
End Sub
'=============================
 
Thanks for the help - I'll test it out!

- Lonnie
-----Original Message-----
It sounds similar to the Access problem. Instead of pasting, you can
choose Edit>Paste Special, and choose csv or Text.

Or, do a normal paste, and then change the data back to numbers:

1. Select an empty cell on the worksheet
2. Choose Edit>Copy
3. Select the cells that you pasted from Access
4. Choose Edit>Paste Special
5. Select Add, click OK

If you do this frequently, you can use a macro to paste as csv:

'=======================
Sub PasteCSV()
ActiveSheet.PasteSpecial Format:="Csv", _
Link:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False
End Sub
'========================

Or to convert the numbers:

'=============================
Sub ConvertToNumbers()
'by Jon Peltier
Cells(65535, 255).Copy
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, _
Operation:=xlPasteSpecialOperationAdd
End Sub
'=============================




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