Author Archives: dougaj4

Stringing more than two words together

Posted on 01/03/2010 by dougaj4

It has always seemed strange to me that the Excel function Concatenate(), which has such a long name, provides no additional functionality over using the & operator. The TextString function is a simple User Defined Function (UDF) which provides the … Continue reading →

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Transferring data within VBA

Posted on 25/02/2010 by dougaj4

The use of inappropriate techniques for passing data between sub-routines and modules is probably one of the most frequent causes of error in VBA programs, but many text books provide little guidance on this subject, and what there is, is … Continue reading →

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Two Years Old Today

Posted on 21/02/2010 by dougaj4

Newton Excel Bach today completes its second year in the Blogosphere, and as last year I have downloaded the statistics for number of hits on each post, and pasted them into an Excel worksheet.  The link to each post is … Continue reading →

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Secondary axes in Excel 2007

Posted on 20/02/2010 by dougaj4

Sometimes rarely used features in an application are so prominently placed that we become blind to them, and can’t find them when we need them. This happened to me recently with the procedure for assigning an Excel chart series to … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 4; Development of curvature over time

Posted on 12/02/2010 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series looked at how specified shrinkage and creep strains affect the curvature of a reinforced consrete section subject to a constant load.  In this post I will present a User Defined Function (UDF) that analyses … Continue reading →

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