25 articles tagged #Excel
Your Pandas read_excel call loads the file but the columns look wrong, data rows are missing, or everything shifts up by a few rows. The fix is almost always a single parameter you haven't set yet.
Every time you call DataFrame.to_excel() in a loop, only the last sheet survives. The root cause is a one-line misunderstanding of how ExcelWriter works — and the fix takes about two minutes once you know it.
openpyxl doesn't have a built-in autofit method, so your columns stay stubbornly narrow no matter what you try. Here's the practical workaround that actually works — using real character-width estimation before you save.
Your SUMPRODUCT formula looks right, your data looks right, yet the result is stubbornly zero. This guide breaks down every common cause — from mismatched array sizes to text-stored numbers — and shows you exactly how to fix each one.
Your Excel pivot table is showing blank cells where you expect zeros, making it hard to calculate totals or spot missing data. Here's exactly why this happens and the three fixes that actually work.
Your Power BI report shows blank cells where you expect zeros, and your totals, charts, and slicers start behaving oddly. Here's exactly why DAX returns BLANK by default and how to force it to show zero.
You merge cells with openpyxl, save the file, then reopen it in Excel only to find the data is gone. Here's exactly why it happens and how to write the merge correctly so the value survives every save.
You build a chart with openpyxl, save the workbook, open the file in Excel — and the chart is either blank or completely missing. Here's exactly why that happens and how to fix it for good.
openpyxl reads every row in a sheet by default — including hidden ones — but one common iteration pattern quietly skips them. Here's exactly why it happens and how to read all rows reliably.
Copying rows between Excel workbooks with openpyxl looks straightforward until you notice fonts, fills, and borders vanishing silently. Learn exactly why styles get dropped and how to copy them reliably.
Getting "Excel xlsx file; not supported" after upgrading xlrd? Since xlrd 2.0 removed support for xlsx files, many Python scripts suddenly broke. Learn why this happens, how to fix it using openpyxl, and the best approaches for reading modern Excel files in Python.
Your AVERAGEIFS formula should be finding data, but it keeps throwing #DIV/0! even though the rows are clearly there. Here are the real reasons this happens and exactly how to fix each one.