connections

Hello - I’ve been tinkering around with a sheet at work and I’ve been using various sources for getting data into a specific sheet so a group of 50 people can use. The best way I can query my data is through Microsoft exchange and applying filters to a specific email with excel attachments...

Hi guys, My file pops up an error msg every time I refresh it says can't find the external file used, but actually, I don't have any formula or table linking to that file -- I have checked: 1. and 2. None of these involves the file the error msg mentioned. I do find the file in Existing...

Hi, If I've loaded a table into power pivot , it is then showing in the 'connections' of the queries and connections pane in power query. Is it possible to load these into power query? if yes , how? if no , I can stop trying. RD

Hello and thank you for viewing my post. I have a spreadsheet that has 5 pivot tables on 1 tab and I've created the graphs and copy / paste those graphs onto the Dashboard tab. When I add the sliders; 5 in total, I connect 3 of the graphs to the slicer without issue but when I connect the 4th...

Hello everyone, it proved to be the most useful to divide the query into small parts that can be easily tested and reused. So I'm trying always write the query as a record of subqueries like it is in #shared, for example: Data = [ Cleaned = let source = csv.. renamedColumns = ...

Hi all, I hope everyone is keeping well during these difficult times! I have an Excel Power Query question and I hope someone is able to help me! I created several connections in Power Query which are currently 'connections only' within Queries & Connections. All data is being imported from...

HI, I have seen multiple posts about removing old connections using VBA but they remove all connections. I have a sheet with 62000+ connections that have built up over time and would like to remove them and retain the 100 usable connections. Is there a way i can filter against the "Last...

I have multiple excel files with several connections to a single Access database. The problem I have is that if more than one file is open at once no one can refresh the files to draw in the latest information from Access. Unfortunately, as these are used for forecasting the files there will...

I'm trying to update several connections in 2 blocks, the connection of the second block required data from the first block as input. To update the connections the user had to click on a button which starts the web data update process. During the update process a message is displayed (with a...

Hello all, I have issue where one of our Excel spreadsheets suddenly shows following error message. External Data Refresh Failed This Command requires at least two rows of source data. You cannot use the command on selection in only one row. We were unable to refresh one or more data...

Hi all, recently there seems to be a problem in excel where it constantly crashes. I am trying to make it as simple as possible with as few features as possible. The spreadsheet has few "workbook connections" to a local server. When I open data / connections/ they are there, but there does not...

Hello, I have been using 5 workbooks for about 3 years they al pull data from a master file. Now when I t to refresh connections it immediately crashes. The message says "Microsoft excel has stopped working" Any help would be appreciated.

Hi there. I want to edit the connections of the activeworkbook doing something like: Dim oCon For Each oCon In ActiveWorkbook.Connections oCon.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False Next oCon The code above does not works. How can I do that? Thanks! EDIT: Better explain: I want to disable the...

Hello, I am doing a little house keeping to tidy andhopefully speed up so spreadsheets, I clicked on Existing Connections and gothundreds of reportserver connections listed. if I click on any of them its says noconnection. As the spreadsheet doespull information from a report server, is this...

I have a master file that has data for a bunch of employees. I built seperately a file for each individual employee that reads from the master file, but found out that it can't read properly if they didn't open the master file, so started using Connections to pull in the data on a hidden tab to...

Hello! I have a workbook with connections to 4 seaparate workbooks. All of a sudden when I open the main workbook, it opens all of the files connected to it. This did not happen before. How could I stop Excel from doing this, while refreshing the connections as it used to? Cheers

Hi, I have code that automatically does a RefreshAll when a worksheet is activated. My issue though is that I need the refreshes to happen in a certain order since pivotables are based off of connection refreshes. I would need all connections to be refreshed first and then all pivotables to be...

I want to learn ADO connections. I want to copy data between closed files. Where can I start to learn?

Hi everyone, I am currently using the Connections tools (under Data tab) to retrieve information from a website. In the end I will probably need about 50 separate Connections to retrieve all of the data that I would like. The problem i am facing is that when the data is refreshed, it does not...

I pull several reports once a week and created a file with a ton of formulas to pull data from the reports. The reports must be open in order to extract the data. The report names are always the same as I use a macro to open the reports and then close them once the values have been...