Category Archives: Arrays

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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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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