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#273067 - 30/12/2005 05:28 CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Technically not an empeg problem - really an Excel problem. I started playing with the CSV to Word catalogue macro that eslange made ( http://home.wanadoo.nl/~eslange/Empeg/EmpCatMain.htm ). For the most part it works quite well. The way it works is it loads in the CSV file generated by emplode into Excel and pulls all the useful info out of it to create the Word document. I have quite a few ripped MP3s where the track tag is something like 01/12, 02/12 etc. Excel decides when importing that these are dates and I end up with track numbers of 01/12/2005 etc. Any ideas on how I could get around this? I tried changing my date delimiter in Windows regional settings but it seems Excel is simply too smart for it's own good. I can't find an option to turn it off either. I don't really understand how the macro works and the author has password prtotected it anyway. Thanks _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#273068 - 30/12/2005 05:53 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: Shonky]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Date format is something you set on the field itself in excel. Not in windows generally. Just select the offending fields and change the format. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#273069 - 30/12/2005 05:59 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: tfabris]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Quote: Date format is something you set on the field itself in excel. Not in windows generally. Just select the offending fields and change the format. Doesn't work like that. The Word macro uses Excel via a VBA macro to pull apart the .csv file. You never see Excel, thus you don't get the chance to select formatting or anything. Even then it still mucks it up. Try entering 01/12 in Excel and then change the format back to normal and you get 38687 since it's already converted it to it's internal date representation (number of days since 1900 I think). The only way to do it is to put an apostrophe so Excel leaves it alone. But I can't do that. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#273070 - 30/12/2005 06:02 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: Shonky]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	And you can't load the CSV in Excel and play from there since it decides to convert the fid links which are just numbers separated by commas in to massive numbers. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#273071 - 30/12/2005 13:35 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: Shonky]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Ah. Gotcha. Well, then I guess you're right, the only fix is to modify the macro. Or to write your own. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#273072 - 30/12/2005 14:20 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: Shonky]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	I would open up Excel and search in its preferences for something like automatic input interpretation and turn it off. That is, I'm pretty sure that there's an option somewhere that tells Excel to translate input to what it thinks it is, including stuff like turning strings with at-signs into mailto links and so on. I would expect that Excel would honor that setting even in a macro where you don't see the Excel GUI. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#273073 - 03/01/2006 23:01 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: wfaulk]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Quote: I would open up Excel and search in its preferences for something like automatic input interpretation and turn it off. That is, I'm pretty sure that there's an option somewhere that tells Excel to translate input to what it thinks it is, including stuff like turning strings with at-signs into mailto links and so on. I would expect that Excel would honor that setting even in a macro where you don't see the Excel GUI. I did have a pretty good look and google around for info on setting this, but could find anything. I also would have expected Excel to have the option at least. I will look again. I sent an email to the author but no reply, so I did a bad thing and cracked the macro password. By doing that I can stop the macro part way and fix things up a bit using a custom format. It's not a total fix though since by that stage Excel has already munged the xx/yy formats into it's serial number and I can't fix everything unless I do it manually. I guess another option (that I just thought of) is write some simple perl to fix up the CSV before loading it. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#273074 - 04/01/2006 06:11 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: Shonky]
eslange journeyman Registered: 16/11/2001 Posts: 74 Loc: Utrecht, Netherlands	Quote: I sent an email to the author but no reply, so I did a bad thing and cracked the macro password. Well.... well... well Never mind I'm not realy active here anymore and very busy with other things so I have to confess that snooping around this forum has become a bit... Anyway.... just back from holiday and saw your email so I checked it now. So you've cracked the password How long did it took? It was a quite long password. I've no problems with it, but please do not distribute it further. I'm no Excel guru, neither macro guy so if you still have problems we can take a better look at it. I agree with wfaulk regarding autoformatiing, but we can also implement a work-around in the macro. Gotta go now... this was just a quick reaction (you've private mail too). Cya
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#273075 - 04/01/2006 13:35 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: eslange]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	Quote: So you've cracked the password How long did it took? It was a quite long password. I've no problems with it, but please do not distribute it further. I'm no Excel guru, neither macro guy so if you still have problems we can take a better look at it. I agree with wfaulk regarding autoformatiing, but we can also implement a work-around in the macro. Maybe it would be a good idea to post a non-passworded copy, then a few other people can work on fixing it ? _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#273076 - 05/01/2006 09:01 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: eslange]
RCCola new poster Registered: 05/01/2006 Posts: 2	Cracking an Office password is rather easy, ya don't even have to bruteforce it. Several programs will do the trick.
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#273077 - 07/01/2006 01:23 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: eslange]
AndrewT old hand Registered: 16/02/2002 Posts: 867 Loc: Oxford, UK	Quote: I'm not realy active here anymore You can checkout any time you like.....
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#273078 - 07/01/2006 03:01 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: AndrewT]
JBjorgen carpal tunnel Registered: 19/01/2002 Posts: 3584 Loc: Columbus, OH	...but you can never leave. _________________________ ~ John
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#273079 - 07/01/2006 05:36 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Gah. Full of mondegreens. Argh. Quote: Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends No no no. ARgh.... _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#273080 - 07/01/2006 10:20 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: tfabris]
JBjorgen carpal tunnel Registered: 19/01/2002 Posts: 3584 Loc: Columbus, OH	From an article about mondegreens: Quote: Frankly speaking, sometimes the words are nonsensical and it is understandable that they confuse the listener. A great many people thought that the woman described in "Hotel California" had a Mercedes Benz. No, she had Mercedes bends, something the leader of the band, the Eagles, straightened out many times. _________________________ ~ John
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#273081 - 07/01/2006 15:59 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: JBjorgen]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	But... It only makes sense the other way. I gotta get Gary to corner Don about that some time. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#273082 - 07/01/2006 20:11 Re: CSV to MS Word Catalogue Macro [Re: tfabris]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Um, it's a pun. A bad pun. One befitting such a terrible band. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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