I have a table with two columns in Excel:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD]London[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]United States of America[/TD]
[TD]Washington DC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]Paris[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]Madrid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Japan[/TD]
[TD]Tokyo[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Column A is populated by an external data connection from a CSV file. Column B is data that I then manually append with metadata, directly in Excel.
This is all fine until additional data is added to the CSV file. When I refresh the data in Excel, it pushes down column A only and so column B becomes out of sync:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD]London[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]United States of America[/TD]
[TD]Washington DC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Italy[/TD]
[TD]Paris[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]Madrid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]Tokyo[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Japan[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
..and of course the metadata is wrong.
Can anyone suggest a way to setup the sheet so that column B will dynamically push down when new rows are added, like so?
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD]London[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]United States of America[/TD]
[TD]Washington DC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Italy[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]Paris[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]Madrid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Japan[/TD]
[TD]Tokyo[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
..so that I can continue to add the metadata and keep it synced up? My guess is that there probably isn't a way since Excel wouldn't know how to handle a row being removed if an entry present in the CSV file was no longer there on a subsequent refresh.
However, all thoughts welcome (and appreciated as always)!
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD]London[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]United States of America[/TD]
[TD]Washington DC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]Paris[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]Madrid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Japan[/TD]
[TD]Tokyo[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Column A is populated by an external data connection from a CSV file. Column B is data that I then manually append with metadata, directly in Excel.
This is all fine until additional data is added to the CSV file. When I refresh the data in Excel, it pushes down column A only and so column B becomes out of sync:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD]London[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]United States of America[/TD]
[TD]Washington DC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Italy[/TD]
[TD]Paris[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]Madrid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]Tokyo[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Japan[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
..and of course the metadata is wrong.
Can anyone suggest a way to setup the sheet so that column B will dynamically push down when new rows are added, like so?
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]A[/TD]
[TD]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]United Kingdom[/TD]
[TD]London[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]United States of America[/TD]
[TD]Washington DC[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]Italy[/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]France[/TD]
[TD]Paris[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]Spain[/TD]
[TD]Madrid[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]Japan[/TD]
[TD]Tokyo[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
..so that I can continue to add the metadata and keep it synced up? My guess is that there probably isn't a way since Excel wouldn't know how to handle a row being removed if an entry present in the CSV file was no longer there on a subsequent refresh.
However, all thoughts welcome (and appreciated as always)!
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