Category Archives: Arrays

Arrays vs Collections vs Dictionary Objects (and Dictionary help)

Posted on 29/08/2013 by dougaj4

A recent comment by Lori Miller at Daily Dose of Excel suggested that (for the particular application being discussed) the VBA Collection object was quicker than using scripting dictionaries.  Since I hardly ever use collections (other than the built-in ones), and … Continue reading →

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EvalA update and examples

Posted on 06/08/2013 by dougaj4

The EvalA User Defined Function (UDF) has been included in the Eval2 and Eval-Integration spreadsheets for some time, but was not documented.  That has now been fixed, and both spreadsheets can be downloaded from Eval2.Zip (including full open-source code). The … Continue reading →

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Copy non-blank rows to another sheet

Posted on 26/07/2013 by dougaj4

A thread at Eng-Tips asked for a way to display the data from Sheet2 on Sheet1, but only the rows that were not blank in Column A. There are probably ways to do it without VBA, but it seems to me … Continue reading →

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Using Index() as an array function

Posted on 23/06/2013 by dougaj4

As promised, this post looks at using the Excel built in Index() function to operate on arrays; it also provides a VBA user defined function (UDF), VBIndex, which simplifies working with arrays within VBA, and also provides improved functionality when … Continue reading →

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Two new blogs

Posted on 17/06/2013 by dougaj4

Two new Excel/computer related blogs that I have found recently are: Useful Gyaan (Sharing Stuff to Make life @ work easier) and MS EXCEL UNPLUGGED (which looks like a good resource on using pivot tables) In the near future I will be … Continue reading →

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