Author Archives: dougaj4

Dividing shapes into layers

Posted on 10/05/2014 by dougaj4

For reasons that will become apparent in a later post, I need to rotate irregular polygons, defined by the coordinates of each corner, by a specified angle, and then split the resulting shape into horizontal trapezoidal layers. I have written … Continue reading →

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Getting help in 2013

Posted on 30/04/2014 by dougaj4

Getting help in Excel 2013 takes you by default to the Microsoft on-line help files, which is not only much slower than connecting to a local file, when you get there finding what you want is even slower. From the … Continue reading →

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Displaying range names

Posted on 28/04/2014 by dougaj4

A useful tip, brought to you from Bob Umlas, via Mike Alexander: If you want to display the named ranges in a spreadsheet, one way is to open the Name Manager (from the Formulas ribbon).  Another is to press F3, … Continue reading →

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More Sort Functions

Posted on 23/04/2014 by dougaj4

I have recently added three new sorting User Defined Functions (UDFs) to the SortFunc-py spreadsheet, and added a new option to the SortV function.  The new file may be downloaded from SortFunc.zip, including full open source code. The first new function … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU Update

Posted on 17/04/2014 by dougaj4

Recently a comment pointed out that if the ConBeam, or ConBeamU, user defined functions were used with a single span then the “Out” argument was ignored, so it was not possible to return support reactions.  This has now been fixed … Continue reading →

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