I hope someone can help me. Is there a way to embed a specific file (.txt) into an excel cell? I'm currently using epplus, and I would like to embed programmatically a file into a specific excel cell. I did manage to add a hyperlink, but my goal is to have it embedded.
Worksheet.Cells[rowNumber, colNumber].Value = ....
Is there any way to do it? I couldn't find anything online.
As mentioned in the comments, you can certainly put text within a cell, but bear in mind Excel does have a limit to the number of characters it will allow in a single cell. It's pretty large, but conceivably the contents of a text file could exceed that limit -- even if future versions of Excel keep increasing what the limit is (as they have in the past).
You can also embed an OLE object in your worksheet, and a text file qualifies for that. I don't know that you can assign it to a cell, per se. You can change the location, shape and behavior to fit in a cell and behave as though it's part of a cell, but I don't know that it ever belongs to a range the way formulas do. I could be wrong.
The basic construct of how to embed an OLE object into a worksheet is as follows:
Excel.OLEObject ole = ws.OLEObjects().Add(Filename: #"C:\Users\hambone\Documents\foo.txt");
This is the equivalent of the VBA:
Set ole = sh.OLEObjects.Add(Filename:="C:\Users\hambone\Documents\foo.txt")
The method returns an OLEObject object, which you can then shape to behave the way you want:
ole.Height = 5;
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I have the requirement to create an Bitmap Object from a Excel Path inside a ms-word document, and I can't seem to find a way to do it in one step.
The current solution is the following.
Create a Field Object
Unlink the Field Object
Like this:
Dim fld As Field
Set fld = Selection.Fields.Add(Selection.Range, WdFieldType.wdFieldLink, "Excel.Sheet.12 ""[Path to Xlsx]"" ""[Sheet+Range]"" \b", False)
fld.Update
fld.Unlink
\b says the field should represented as a Bitmap object.
With fld.Unlink I am dropping the link and the Bitmap stays.
Is there a way to directly create the Bitmap Object (InlineShape) without the field approach?
I tried to record a macro in ms-word to see how ms-word is doing it but saddly it only gives:
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteBitmap, Placement:= wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False
If possible I would like to avoid working with Clipboard and PasteSpecial.
Edit:
Since the given answer has shown me that my question wasn't as clear as I hoped it to be.
So first of all, the only Information I currently have are
The path to an XLSX file
The Sheet and Range of said XLSX File
eg.
C:\test\myWorkbook.xlsx
Sheet1!A1:D10
Thats all the Information I have.
With this Information I need to programatically create a Bitmap inside my ms-word document.
As shown above I already have a solution which does exactly this, by doing a LINK to the said XLSX file and after it got updated dropping that link to only have the Bitmap left.
A Bitmap is staying here because of the \b flag which tells the LINK to produce a Bitmap, instead of a RTF/HTML.
My question now is, if there is another way I am currently doing it.
The current answer, does indeed insert a Bitmap into my ms-word document, but where do I get the Bitmap from, as the answer isn't aware of the fact that I need an image of an excel workbook? As I said earlier, I only have limited information and no Bitmap.
What I want to achieve can be done without programatically by using the Paste Special functionality
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/paste-special-e03db6c7-8295-4529-957d-16ac8a778719
Open Xlsx/Docx
Copy Cells from Xlsx
Go to Docx
Use Paste Special
Select Bitmap
Hit OK
The output you receive in your Docx is what I desire to make programatically, without Clipboard and Paste Special and with a, if possible, better solution than I currently have.
You can use the following code:
string fileName = "c://msdn.bmp"; //the picture file to be inserted
Object oMissed = doc.Paragraphs[2].Range; //the position you want to insert
Object oLinkToFile = false; //default
Object oSaveWithDocument = true;//default
doc.InlineShapes.AddPicture(fieldName, ref oLinkToFile, ref oSaveWithDocument, ref oMissed);
See insert a picture into a word document using c#? for more information.
Using OpenXML, you can get a list of the named ranges in an Excel document using something similar to:
IEnumerable<DefinedName> names = document
.WorkbookPart
.Workbook
.DefinedNames
.Cast<DefinedName>();
Each of these DefinedName's has a Text property, which defines the range that it refers to, e.g.
Sheet1!$B$3:$D$8
which we can then parse, and use to retrieve the data. At least that's how I understand the process so far.
However, with a dynamic range, the text property can contain something like:
OFFSET(Sheet1!$F$3,0,0,COUNTA(Sheet1!$F:$F),1)
This is not a range, it is a formula which returns a range, and it is the result of this formula that I need.
Is it possible to calculate this formula, or is the result already stored somewhere in the spreadsheet that I can read? Or is there some other way in which I can read a dynamic named range?
This question is specifically about OpenXML. I know that it can be done using other tools.
Excel Defined Names are really named formulas rather than named ranges. So you would need a method such as VBA Evaluate to coerce the formula to a range or a result.
AFAIK OpenXML does not have such a method, so you would have to write your own formula parser and evaluator, or use some other tool.
I am using Interop.Excel for doing this task.
I am trying to copy a range of cells from one workbook's sheet and paste it into a separate workbook's sheet, but I want to keep the formatting from the source sheet and paste it into the destination sheet. I found the PasteSpecial, and tried to use that, but when I try it, I get an unhelpful exception message : "PastSpecial methos of Range class failed", which has an HResult of -2146827284. Could not find anything via google, so here I am to hopefully get some help...
I use the code below to try this. I also did try using Excel.XlPasteType.xlPasteAll as the initial parameter to the PastSpecial method, and that did actually Paste the data into the destination sheet, and so I thought great, this works, but when I looked closer, I could see, very fiently, what looked like extra gridlines, and when I clicked on the pasted data, it was a whole object which could be moved around, much like an image pasted in that can be moved. This of course is not what I wanted. The idea is that I need to preserve the formatting and the border styles and the colors used.
Many thanks for reading - apologies if my formatting in the post has messed up.
Excel.Range rng6 = sht6.Cells.get_Range("A1", "O55");
Excel.Range rng1 = sht.get_Range("A" + rowStart6.ToString(), "O" + rowEnd6.ToString());
rng6.Copy(mis);
/** Fails here at PasteSpecial**/
rng1.PasteSpecial(Excel.XlPasteType.xlPasteFormats, Excel.XlPasteSpecialOperation.xlPasteSpecialOperationNone, false, false);
I'm opening up xlsx files as a package and reading the contents of the xml files. I'm able to get the shared strings, borders, etc that I need and it's orders of magnitude faster than when I was using Interop. The only issue I have is when it comes to pulling out numbers and formatting them properly based on what the formatting is in the Excel file.
Is there a generic function somewhere that takes a value and a format and returns the formatted string? For example, if I have the value 31502008 and the custom format "$* #,##0_);$* (#,##0)" is there a simple way to get what Excel shows (which is $31,502,008). Obviously Excel knows how to handle it, but I have some sheets that have a crazy number of custom formats and I'm wondering how best to ensure that the string I get back in code matches what is seen in Excel.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot for any help.
I am working on C# VSTO(excel). I have created excel workbook project.
I have been trying to implement Paste Special for my workbook.
Manually, we do paste special like This
But i need C# code to do the same.
Is there any way so i can apply it for every copy/cut paste operation in my excel workbook?
I don't want to use VBA Macros as it asks everytime user to whether he wants to ENABLE MACROS OR NOT and hence is there another way o accomplish this.
Have you tried PasteSpecialmethod over ranges, it provides numerous options to copy formats/ column widths/ fomats with values etc.
Also there is another copy special to copy/paste as picture.
to copy Range:
Range.CopyPicture(xlPrinter, xlPicture);
// the range gets copied in clipboard
// there are options available like xlScreen in case you want to copy as it appears on screen.
Sheet.Paste()
// this will paste the shape in the sheet, to paste in some range you could use range.Paste()