Author Archives: dougaj4

Frame Analysis with Excel 1 – Single beam

Posted on 31/01/2009 by dougaj4

Download Beam1.zip This is the first of a series of posts in which I will develop a structural frame analysis program operating within Excel.  The first few stages will be mostly spreadsheet based, with later stages using VBA routines to … Continue reading →

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Apple Numbers 09

Posted on 27/01/2009 by dougaj4

A review of the new Apple spreadsheet, with an emphasis on engineering applications, from the “Engineering for the Real World” blog. I don’t think I’ll be changing any time soon, but for Mac users familiar with Apple Script it looks … Continue reading →

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Lotus Day

Posted on 27/01/2009 by dougaj4

As well as being Australia Day, January 26th is also the anniversary of the first release of Lotus 123 (for my younger readers, “Lotus” is what we used to call spreadsheets, before they became “Excel”). Lotus 123 is now 26, … Continue reading →

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Repeating a set of data

Posted on 21/01/2009 by dougaj4

The Microsoft Excel Blog has a discussion on ways of repeating a set of data, for instance making three copies of every row of a range of data.  I have written a simple UDF to do this job, and also extract … Continue reading →

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More from Davey Graham

Posted on 19/01/2009 by dougaj4

I finaly found an uninterupted recording of the “She Moves Through the Fair” variations, rejoicing in the title of: She Moved Thru’ the Bizarre/ Blue Raga Wikipedia has this to say about a Jimmy Page piece called White Summer: “Alleged … Continue reading →

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