Automated data logging with excel

[Andrew]

Hello,
I am working on a visual basic project which reads values from an
external source and puts those values into an excel worksheet, into
pre-defined cells. These values change once every minute. What I
would like to do is to write a visual basic program which will take
data from sheet 1 and then store it into sheet two. This will happen
once a minute. And so for the first reading, the program will take
the values from sheet one and write them into row 1 of sheet 2. And
for the second reading, it will take the values from sheet one and
write them into row 2 of sheet 2, and so on.
Also, this program will be taking in a lot of data, and so I would
like the sheet to autosave every hour.
Can someone help me out with either of these functions? I have a
lot of programming experience, though not in visual basic. Please
include details.

thanks,
Andy

 

[FSt1]

hi
as to the data transfer, try something like this....
Private Sub TransferData()
Dim r1 As Range
Dim r2 As Range
Sheet1.Activate
Set r1 = Cells(65536, 1).End(xlUp)
Set r2 = Sheet2.Cells(65536, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0)
r2.Value = r1.Value
r2.Offset(0, 1).Value = r1.Offset(0, 1).Value
r2.Offset(0, 2).Value = r1.Offset(0, 2).Value
r2.Offset(0, 3).Value = r1.Offset(0, 3).Value
'add more if needed
End Sub
as to the time of transfer, look up the on time method in vb help or see
this site...
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ontime.htm
and to the auto save every hour, i'm having trouble with that myself
see this site...
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/datetime.htm

regards
FSt1