Import Help TIA

[Trip Poly]

For anyone that would like to help me out with this....TIA!!

I am trying to import information starting at row 7 in a text file and then trying to import only certain columns into certain cells.
The extraction of information at row 7 and the columns will always be the same but the amount of information will not.
If I can get the WHOLE column of information or to tell excel to stop gathering information when it reaches the "=" sign.

I need each column to be in separate cells in the excel worksheet but I also just need it to pull the information automatically when
I open the worksheet so that I can just print the information.

Example of the file that I need to pull from and the columns that the information that is needed depicted with "****":
Row 1 starts with Ristorante



***** ******* ******* *******
Ristorante
FOH TIP REPORT for 1/9/2005-1/22/2005 at 1/16/2005 5:37:59 PM (Restaurant) Page 1

| Time| Time| Date| Date| |------ Regular -------|------ Overtime ------| Total | Tipped | 10.00%| Charge| Declrd|
Job | In | Out | In | Out |Breaks| Hours Rate Pay | Hours Rate Pay | Pay | Sales | Sales | Tips | Tips |
==================================================================================================================================
Name 0.00 14.64 31.19 31.19 1372.97 137.30 146.66 4.00
Name 0.00 29.46 176.76 176.76 132.72 13.27 18.07 16.00
Name 0.00 25.99 55.36 55.36 2086.72 208.67 296.95 0.00
Name 0.00 41.84 0.00 13.10D 0.00 0.00 5.95 0.60 0.00 0.00
36.28W 0.00
Name 0.00 32.93 70.14 70.14 1726.72 172.67 139.40 4.00
Name 0.00 4.05 0.00 0.00 9.75 0.98 1.00 0.00
Name 0.00 4.02 8.56 8.56 326.03 32.60 39.00 0.00
Name 0.00 37.02 222.12 222.12 121.74 12.17 34.16 0.00
Name 0.00 4.55 22.75 22.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Name 0.00 28.50 60.70 60.70 1834.11 183.41 169.38 24.00
Name 0.00 22.08 47.03 47.03 1770.08 177.01 208.82 10.00
Name 0.00 19.10 98.36 98.36 46.30 4.63 8.00 8.00
Name 0.00 30.85 65.71 65.71 2173.98 217.40 248.38 39.55
Name 0.00 14.05 105.38 105.38 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Name 0.00 13.26 159.12 159.12 37.59 3.76 2.77 0.00
Name 0.00 32.82 69.91 69.91 2504.33 250.43 289.07 30.00
Name 0.00 28.80 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Name 0.00 11.77 25.07 25.07 949.28 94.93 117.33 0.00
Name 0.00 1.25 2.66 2.66 23.77 2.38 0.00 5.00
Name 0.00 42.42 0.00 18.03W 0.00 0.00 47.75 4.78 0.00 0.00
Name 0.00 10.60 47.55 47.55 19.85 1.98 6.45 0.00
Name 0.00 43.92 123.30 11.56W 37.00 160.30 2842.76 284.28 318.81 30.00
Name 0.00 6.95 34.75 34.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Name 0.00 6.60 14.05 14.05 171.16 17.12 28.00 0.00
Name 0.00 22.63 48.20 48.20 565.19 56.52 49.39 14.00
Name 0.00 27.28 0.00 17.93D 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
49.44W 0.00
Name 0.00 0.05 0.11 0.11 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Name 0.00 22.14 47.16 47.16 1713.42 171.34 209.58 0.00
==================================================================================================================================
Totals 579.57 1535.94 146.34 37.00 1572.94 20482.17 2048.22 2331.22 184.55

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Trip,

Excel will read your text file, but won't parse it in any sensible way.
Your text file is really a printed report (a prn file). It has lots of
spacing, headings of all kinds. Excel doesn't have a way to do a partial
import either; it can't be programmed to stop on an equal sign.

It will require a macro to weed through your printout text file, get the
actual data records and parse them, putting them in the desired columns, and
stopping when it should. The macro can read the file directly, or open or
import it into a sheet. Either way, it will have to manipulate the data.
This has nothing to do with Italian food, btw!

If you can get whatever produced this file to instead give you a delimited
file (e.g.: comma-delimited, tab-delimited), Excel cen read or import it
directly. This will be a much better solution. It will still require some
manipulation. For more, read Excel and text files at
www.smokeylake.com/excel.

 

[Trip Poly]

TY very much. I tried to do the delimited thing with the program but it will not give me all the information that I require. The only report that does is the one in previous message. But TY for you
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