Web query excel 2003 not good for Excel 2000 code

[Dave]

I wrote some scripts in excel 2000 that used web query and yahoo
finance quotes.
Trying to run the scripts in Excel 2003 is a nightmare. The script
below works fine in
excel 2000 but not 2003. Any help is appreciated.

Also, does anybody know why you can't enter this url in the new web
query window?

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=IBM&f=l1&ignore=.csv

TIA

Dave


This runs through a column of symbols and retrives the last price and
puts it in the adjacent column to the right.


Sub Yahoo()

Do

On Error Resume Next

x = ActiveCell.Offset(0, -1).Value
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=" & x &
"&f=l1&ignore=.csv", _
Destination:=ActiveCell.Offset(0, 0))
.AdjustColumnWidth = False
.WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingNone
.BackgroundQuery = False
.TablesOnlyFromHTML = True
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
.SaveData = True
End With

ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop Until IsEmpty(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -1))
End Sub

 

[Dave]

Ok I figured it out..

In excel 2003, a web query to a single cell will also put character
Ascii character 32 (" " or space) in the cell directly below. This does
not happen in excel 2000 web query.

From David McRitchie ( Thanks )

"Not all characters can be visibly displayed in a worksheet cell. For
example, embedded control characters like a tab may not appear in a
cell. This happens quite frequently when you copy and paste text from
the web or a Word document into Excel. The CellView add-in allows you
to see the exact characters in a cell, as well as their character codes
(in either decimal or hex numbers). "


Cell view add-in

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CellView.htm


Macro to trim char 32

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall


Sub TrimALL()
'David McRitchie 2000-07-03 mod 2000-08-16 2005-09-29 join.htm
'-- http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall
' - Optionally reenable improperly terminated Change Event macros
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.EnableEvents = True 'should be part of Change Event
macro
If Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual Then
MsgBox "Calculation was OFF will be turned ON upon completion"
End If
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
Dim cell As Range
'Also Treat CHR 0160, as a space (CHR 032)
Selection.Replace What:=Chr(160), Replacement:=Chr(32), _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False
'Trim in Excel removes extra internal spaces, VBA does not
On Error Resume Next 'in case no text cells in selection
For Each cell In Intersect(Selection, _
Selection.SpecialCells(xlConstants, xlTextValues))
cell.Value = Application.Trim(cell.Value)
Next cell
On Error GoTo 0
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub




Thanks again David..

Dave

Excel 2003 is not my friend