Summary. This step-by-step article describes how to build a tab-delimited text file dynamically from a database. You can then open the file in Microsoft Excel. The sample code in this article demonstrates how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database, return a set of data from the Pubs database, and then create a tab-delimited text file ...

COM Add-ins are typically used to automate Excel in response to a click of a CommandBar button, a form or dialog box, or some other event specific to Excel such as opening or closing workbooks or entering data on worksheets.

What is implicit intersection? Implicit intersection logic reduces many values to a single value. Excel did this to force a formula to return a single value, since a cell could only contain a single value.

When you automate a Microsoft Office application from Microsoft Visual Basic .NET or Microsoft Visual C# .NET, the Office application does not exit when you call the Quit method. Cause. When Visual Studio .NET calls a COM object from managed code, it automatically creates a Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW).

Excel Services is a new server technology that is included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and that enables you to load, calculate, and display Excel workbooks on Office SharePoint Server 2007.

With Power Query (known as Get & Transform in Excel), you can import or connect to external data, and then shape that data, for example remove a column, change a data type, or merge tables, in ways that meet your needs. Then, you can load your query into Excel to create charts and reports.

Use Power Query in Excel to import data into Excel from a wide variety of popular data sources, including CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, SharePoint, SQL, and more.

Benefits. Improved Performance If you write the same expression multiple times in a formula, Excel calculated that result multiple times. LET allows you to call the expression by name and for Excel to calculate it once.

You can create a new workbook from a blank workbook or a template. By default, a new workbook contains three worksheets, but you can change the number of worksheets that you want a new workbook to contain. You can also add and remove worksheets as needed.

Create a workbook. Open Excel. Select Blank workbook. Or press Ctrl+N. Enter data. To manually enter data: Select an empty cell, such as A1, and then type text or a number. Press Enter or Tab to move to the next cell. To fill data in a series: Enter the beginning of the series in two cells: such as Jan and Feb; or 2014 and 2015.