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I am importing data from Excel and plotting it with DateListPlot. My code is

DateListPlot[{
  Join @@ Import[""][[1 ;;, 3 ;;]][[All, All, 2 ;; 3]], 
  Join @@ Import[""][[1 ;;, 3 ;;]][[All, All, 4 ;; 5]]}, 
  Joined -> True, 
  FrameTicks -> All]

But my problem is this works for just for the first sheet (year 2013) of the many in the same file. Sheet 2 is for Year 2012 and has the same format, and so forth. I want to get all the sheets for all the years; they are continuations of each other. Could you help me to figure out what code will do this?

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    $\begingroup$ offtop: 1;; = ;; = All $\endgroup$
    – Kuba ♦
    Jun 21, 2013 at 10:42
  • $\begingroup$ @Kuba thanks can you see my coding skills?!!!! $\endgroup$
    – Alex
    Jun 21, 2013 at 10:47

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This might work:

Import["test.xls", "Sheets"]

{Sheet1, Sheet2}

data1 = Import["test.xls", {"Sheets", "Sheet1"}];
data2 = Import["test.xls", {"Sheets", "Sheet2"}];
all = Sort[Join[data1, data2]];
DateListPlot[all, Joined -> True]

But I haven't got Excel here so I can't test it.

Edit

With lots of sheets:

sheets = Import["test.xls", "Sheets"]
data  =  Import["test.xls", {"Sheets", # }] & /@ sheets

and see how the data looks then.

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  • $\begingroup$ thanks but what if I have 50 sheets?Please pay attention to my required format of [[1 ;;, 3 ;;]][[All, All, 2 ;; 3]], [[1 ;;, 3 ;;]][[All, All, 4 ;; 5]] $\endgroup$
    – Alex
    Jun 21, 2013 at 10:37
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    $\begingroup$ @Alex No idea what all that means... :) But once you've imported the data, just select the bits you want - that should be basic list-manipulation stuff. $\endgroup$
    – cormullion
    Jun 21, 2013 at 10:58
  • $\begingroup$ It fails to import data what could be wrong? $\endgroup$
    – Alex
    Jun 21, 2013 at 11:18
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    $\begingroup$ I'm sorry, I'm not a doctor... :/ $\endgroup$
    – cormullion
    Jun 21, 2013 at 11:28
  • $\begingroup$ I am recovered :D thanks $\endgroup$
    – Alex
    Jun 21, 2013 at 12:13

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