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Hello,
I know how to get data from multiple workbooks and also from multiple worksheets WITHIN ONE workbook. But I cannot do that when there are multiple excel files with multiple worksheets...
I have created parameters and everything looks OK
But when I expand ALL_Workbooks it gets data from first file only AND reads the first file 3 times. So instead of reading each file 1 time, it reads first file 3 times!!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Sab
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Thank you for your replies.
The problem is a bit more complicated than in the example from the video because sheets contain Pivoted data with dates in column headers, and every file/sheet has different Dates (cloumn headers), therefore I cannot use the first row of any of the sheets as header.
Still trying to figure out a solution with Functions and parameters...
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Hi,
I solved this problem by creating two parameters, one that holds file name and the other one that holds sheetname. Lots of effort on this one but it was worth because I learned some interesting stuff.
thanks again
Sab
Could it be that the parameter in your function is ignored?
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Thank you for your replies.
The problem is a bit more complicated than in the example from the video because sheets contain Pivoted data with dates in column headers, and every file/sheet has different Dates (cloumn headers), therefore I cannot use the first row of any of the sheets as header.
Still trying to figure out a solution with Functions and parameters...
😞 😞 😞
Hi,
I solved this problem by creating two parameters, one that holds file name and the other one that holds sheetname. Lots of effort on this one but it was worth because I learned some interesting stuff.
thanks again
Sab
Hi,
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