Author Archives: dougaj4

Unchained Unchained Melodies and Unchained Guitars

Posted on 01/10/2013 by dougaj4

The Telescoper has a link to a short YouTube clip of the original and excellent version of The Unchained Melody (subsequently made famous by the Righteous Brothers), which led me to a slightly less conventional version: And at the suggested links at the … Continue reading →

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Python for VBA users – 2

Posted on 29/09/2013 by dougaj4

This post will look in more detail at translating the VBA Quadratic function (described in Python for VBA users – 1) into a Python function, linked to Excel via PyXll.  For the purposes of this exercise I created a new Python … Continue reading →

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Commenting a block of code in VBA

Posted on 26/09/2013 by dougaj4

One way is to manually place an apostrophe at the start of every line in the block. A much easier way (I just found out today) is: Go to View-Toolbars-Customise Select the Command tab Select the Edit Category on the … Continue reading →

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Python for VBA users – 1

Posted on 24/09/2013 by dougaj4

Following my recent posts on some preliminary experimentation with linking Excel to Python, this will be the first of a more structured series, mainly as a reminder to myself of lessons learnt on the way, but also I hope of … Continue reading →

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Sorting with Python

Posted on 19/09/2013 by dougaj4

A previous post provided a VBA Sort function that could be used as a User Defined Function (UDF) to provide a sorted list on the spreadsheet, or called from another VBA routine to sort an array. I have just written a … Continue reading →

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