How to Merge Excel Files with Different Headers in Python

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Consolidating data from multiple Excel files requires you to have identical table headers otherwise you can run into the missing data problem. With this Python script, you can handle a complex situation where you need to combine data from multiple Excel files but it's not easy to match the columns.

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[CodingIsFun]

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[rafaelg]

Great this video. Congrats. Another idea is “how to process an script sql in many servers/databases differents and to return one column with name specific database”.

[praveenkumarchidrawar]

Hi, need to understand how Merge Excel Files with Different Headers in Python to sql server. Kindly make a video it will be great help.

[Shiffo]

I'm looking for help on a similar situation.
I have excel data from multiple sheets, where I extract data, however the years are defined in the columns.
I try to extract this with year_range=range(starting_year, 2024).
And then try to extract this data in my loop by using
data =next_row.loc[year_range].
And now I get a key Error for certain sheets because those have the headers in Datetime, or string or number.
And I cannot easily find the Dtypes because it just states it as Object.
Is there an easy way to match Dtypes of your headers or reformat the Dtype of a header to match with what I'm looking for.

[dohasaleh]

hey do my all my excel sheets have to have the sane order of columns?

[pedrogiron]

Hi Sven, thanks a lot for your contribution on interacting Python with Excel.
I've always had the question about how to read/write tables from/to an Excel sheet, using pandas, when these are located at different positions in the sheet. Although I've read the pandas documentation, I find that this issue is not treated properly and clearly. Me and many people would appreciate your comments to this subject. My best regards!

[zohebdholakia]

How to use whole sheet rather than table at line 30

[praveendesu]

can you please make a video on how to run macros on workbook A by using macros code from workbook B? I watched your other video regards to this. But it did not help.

[abhishekawari]

In my case in a single workbook contains multiple sheets then how to read all of ?