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unable to disable/delete embedded Web Query links in excel - screen shots added
Thank you for your suggestion.
Generally, this should work as long as the financial institution offers CSV or QIF etc.
Most of my financial institutions offer PDF only, especially if it is older than 12 or 18 months.
I have Acrobat software, but that doesn't consistently or accurately translate text 100% of the time.
I have tried highlight and paste, which only works to grab rows, and translates into a mess of columns that are not congruent and requires much cleanup.
Web Select by page/rows also results in a mess of incongruent columns.
Web Select by column is VERY accurate, and fairly simple to paste right into excel, if you can trust that it isn't also embedding hidden code in the excel file.
Web Select - first copy into Word - then copy and paste to Excel appears to not include hidden code, until copy and paste to Excel proves the formulas and conditional formatting do not work properly due to the hidden/embedded code (Web Query).
I need to figure how to locate and remove the embedded code which is sometimes (not always) generated by Web Select.
Remaining options include manually type and proofread thousands of lines of data, or manually copy and paste thousands line by line.
Do you want to clean data after having downloaded datas from web like above case?
- Thanks for your reply, I am not sure how to respond to your question because I doin't understand what you are asking. But I am NOT downloading - I am using Micorsoft's Edge tool "Web Select" via a copy&paste type of method.
Web Select - first copy into Word - then copy and paste to Excel appears to not include hidden code, until copy and paste to Excel proves the formulas and conditional formatting do not work properly due to the hidden/embedded code (Web Query).
do you want to fetch data directly from the website rather than "Web Select" via a copy (like below) & paste?Hmmm. that sounds like it should simplify my life!
does that apply to my situation?
....I am trying to pull down YEARS of data from financial institutions which currently only offer PDF downloads for data older than 18 months (useless to me, since i need transactional data in excel format, CSV might work, or a reliable method of PDF to ANY format without EXTENSIVE rework to format properly)
