CabMasterPro User Guide
See Using Excel
When you need to read a string from a Lookup Table (QLT) for use in a formula, it must have quote marks around it so that CabMasterPro knows it is a section of text rather than a variable name. Converting an entire table of data (such as material names) to have the quote marks can be done easily by using macros in Microsoft Excel. A macro is simply a saved sequence of actions to make repetitive tasks simpler and faster.
The first step is to open Excel and then select File > Options and enable 'Show Developer tab' in the Excel Options as shown below.
Click to Expand
Then on the Developer tab, select "Record Macro"
On the presented window, enter details i.e.
Then click Stop Recording straight away, which will effectively create an empty macro.
Next we have to edit the macro so it will add quote marks to strings and because it is stored in a hidden file which holds your personal macros, do the following...
Click to Expand
Now click on Macros which will open a dialog, as shown, and click the Edit button with "AddQuotes" highlighted.
Click to Expand
This will open the Visual Basic editor, which should have some text like in the example...
Example
No knowledge of Visual Basic is required. All you have to do is insert a few lines so that the section of code ends up looking like the following...
The parts you have to add are the ones in bold black text.
Make sure you get both sets of quadruple (4) quote marks and that none of the black lines appear green in the editor.
There is no need to lay out the text nicely and capitalise keywords, the editor will do this all for you.
Close the editor when finished (the macro will be automatically saved).
Now all you have to do is click the "Save" in Excel, then select Hide from the Window menu to re-hide "Personal.xls" (see Edit Macro above).
You can now open any Lookup Table
Close Excel and if it asks if you wish to save "Personal.xls", click Yes/Save.
