Saturday, 29 July 2017

Move selected data into table

I've been building reports for a client and found myself copy and pasting data into tables, I was extracting about 120 cells worth of data from a performance test and pasting it into a formatted table in groups of 20; doesn't sound like a big deal but do it for some 100 tables and it adds up. So naturally i wrote a neat little excel macro to do so.

Sub Populate_Response_Times_1_User()
    Dim RowStart As Integer
    RowStart = 3
 
    'move data from selected column of cells into columns
    Call Populate_Response_Times(RowStart)

    'style the columns of data
    For i = 1 To 5
        Call StyleDataColumn(i * 2, RowStart, i Mod 2 = 1)
    Next i
End Sub
 
Sub Populate_Response_Times_25_Users()
    Dim RowStart As Integer
    RowStart = 26
 
   'move data from selected column of cells into columns
    Call Populate_Response_Times(RowStart)

    'style the columns of data
    For i = 1 To 5
        Call StyleDataColumn(i * 2, RowStart, i Mod 2 = 1)
    Next i
End Sub

Sub Populate_Response_Times_50_Users()
    Dim RowStart As Integer
    RowStart = 49

  'move data from selected column of cells into columns
    Call Populate_Response_Times(RowStart)

    'style the columns of data
    For i = 1 To 5
        Call StyleDataColumn(i * 2, RowStart, i Mod 2 = 1)
    Next i
End Sub

Sub Populate_Response_Times(RowStart As Integer)
    Dim ColumnIndexMultiplier As Integer
    Dim RowIndex As Integer

    For i = 0 To Selection.count
        If (i Mod 20 = 0) Then
            'use next column
            ColumnIndexMultiplier = ColumnIndexMultiplier + 1
            'restart rows
            RowIndex = 0
        End If
         ' select appropriate cell and set it's value to the selected itertor
        Cells(RowStart + RowIndex, 2 * ColumnIndexMultiplier).Value = Selection(i + 1)
        RowIndex = RowIndex + 1
    Next i
End Sub


Sub StyleDataColumn(Column As Integer, Row As Integer, Green As Boolean)
    'select column and row range to modify
    ActiveSheet.Range(Cells(Row, Column), Cells(Row + 19, Column)).Select

    'format look of cells
    With Selection
        .HorizontalAlignment = xlLeft
        .VerticalAlignment = xlBottom
        .WrapText = False
        .Orientation = 0
        .AddIndent = False
        .IndentLevel = 0
        .ShrinkToFit = False
        .ReadingOrder = xlContext
        .MergeCells = False
    End With
 
    Selection.Font.Italic = True
 
    If (Green) Then
        With Selection.Interior
            .Pattern = xlSolid
            .PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
            .ThemeColor = xlThemeColorAccent6
            .TintAndShade = 0.799981688894314
            .PatternTintAndShade = 0
        End With
    End If
End Sub

there are three macro's

  • Populate_Response_Times_1_User()
  • Populate_Response_Times_25_Users()
  • Populate_Response_Times_50_Users()

Each one of these leverages the same internal logic it just specifies the insert row to a different value

Home Page response time for 1 user on test
0 to 5 min
5 min to 10 min
10 min to 15 min
15 min to 20 min
20 min to 25 min
25 to 30 min
00:15
2.06
05:15
2.10
10:15
2.13
15:15
2.06
20:15
2.08
25:15
2.32
00:30
2.19
05:30
2.06
10:30
2.17
15:30
2.27
20:30
2.16
25:30
2.27
00:45
2.11
05:45
2.03
10:45
2.10
15:45
2.10
20:45
2.31
25:45
2.36
01:00
2.12
06:00
2.28
11:00
2.09
16:00
2.03
21:00
2.07
26:00
2.61
01:15
2.04
06:15
2.08
11:15
1.90
16:15
2.13
21:15
2.21
26:15
2.29
01:30
2.08
06:30
2.05
11:30
1.99
16:30
2.06
21:30
2.34
26:30
2.26
01:45
2.03
06:45
2.40
11:45
2.44
16:45
2.18
21:45
2.61
26:45
2.61
02:00
2.09
07:00
2.22
12:00
2.13
17:00
2.15
22:00
2.00
27:00
2.28
02:15
2.07
07:15
2.08
12:15
2.14
17:15
2.09
22:15
2.30
27:15
2.65
02:30
2.00
07:30
2.11
12:30
2.23
17:30
2.29
22:30
3.81
27:30
3.19
02:45
2.06
07:45
2.28
12:45
2.16
17:45
1.99
22:45
2.50
27:45
4.53
03:00
1.97
08:00
2.19
13:00
2.11
18:00
2.04
23:00
2.08
28:00
5.86
03:15
1.98
08:15
2.28
13:15
2.12
18:15
2.05
23:15
1.97
28:15
4.86
03:30
2.07
08:30
2.20
13:30
2.14
18:30
2.06
23:30
2.25
28:30
4.36
03:45
2.01
08:45
2.13
13:45
2.12
18:45
2.28
23:45
2.82
28:45
3.87
04:00
2.02
09:00
2.30
14:00
2.23
19:00
2.05
24:00
2.41
29:00
2.19
04:15
3.14
09:15
2.09
14:15
2.27
19:15
2.15
24:15
3.63
29:15
2.13
04:30
2.16
09:30
2.29
14:30
2.15
19:30
2.05
24:30
1.97
29:30
1.96
04:45
2.25
09:45
2.12
14:45
2.05
19:45
2.21
24:45
2.23
29:45
2.54
05:00
2.15
10:00
2.13
15:00
2.04
20:00
1.92
25:00
2.22
30:00
2.42

In the excel file we have 3 of the above tables with the 3 rows to start at are 3, 26 and 49.