“Excel Instance” talks to excel directly, rather than just creating
a file.
If Excel is not already running, Toad will start it up and start writing in it.
If Excel is already running, it will create a new sheet in the current workbook.
There is also a “start at current cell” option to start writing into
the current sheet wherever your cursor is in Excel.
It’s handy if you want to export multiple tables to different tabs in one
excel workbook.
It does not save the file – that part is up to you.
Instead of creating an XLS or XLXS file, it talks to Excel and writes the data
over to a new workbook. You can then decide if you want to save it later.
Perfect when you’re working with secure data and you want to do some
pivots, but not leave that secure data on your PC when you’re done.
It’s also great for appending multiple sets of data to a single
workbook/sheet.
It adds a new tab to whatever Excel spreadsheet has current focus. I use it all
the time, and it works well.
Best regards,
Mike
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I had problems in the past that I have not tested yet with later
versions of Toad. Where Toad Actions (as they were then) were scheduled
under the Windows Scheduler AND multiple tables were being saved to an
excel instance, strange things happened.
Instead of one file with many tabs, I got two or three files with
assorted tabs on each. Most strange indeed.
However, as I said above, it not something I've done for a while and the
old need to do it has gone away - thankfully!
I've had no problems using it "interactively" in a desktop session, it's
just under the Scheduler I had grief.
Cheers,
Norm. [TeamT]
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I love the way toad shades the column headers for me when I do save as
excel file. I wish I knew how it does that…
There’s some more stuff I’d like to do…
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:13 AM, John Dorlon wrote:
“Excel Instance” talks to excel directly, rather than just creating a
file.
If Excel is not already running, Toad will start it up and start writing in
it.
If Excel is already running, it will create a new sheet in the current
workbook. There is also a “start at current cell” option to start
writing into the current sheet wherever your cursor is in Excel.
It’s handy if you want to export multiple tables to different tabs in one
excel workbook.
It does not save the file – that part is up to you.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Jeff Smith wrote:
Excel instance is the BEST!
Instead of creating an XLS or XLXS file, it talks to Excel and writes the
data over to a new workbook. You can then decide if you want to save it
later. Perfect when you’re working with secure data and you want to do
some pivots, but not leave that secure data on your PC when you’re done.
It’s also great for appending multiple sets of data to a single
workbook/sheet.
Here’s a quick writeup
http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2010/12/three-ways-to-get-data-into-exce
l-with-toad/
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Zarzycki, Michael wrote:
It adds a new tab to whatever Excel spreadsheet has current focus. I use it
all the time, and it works well.
Best regards,
Mike
Michael S. Zarzycki, MTS | Manager of Engineering IT | Sensata Technologies,
Inc. | voice: 508-236-1015 | fax: 508-236-3701 | www.sensata.com | The
World Depends on Sensors and Controls
Me too, I was just wondering…I do a lot of automated stuff that
subsequently goes out in an automated email that I never touch.
I actually make a comma delimited file in my pl/sql and spool it with a .csv
extension.
When the client gets it and opens it, they never know the difference.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Jeff Smith wrote:
Never used instance with the scheduler…figure if I was going to automate
something I’d want it to actually build a file for me.
Sounds like an interesting thing to play with though.
