Category Archives: Arrays

Using UDFs – Continuous Beam Example

Posted on 03/05/2012 by dougaj4

Recently (well a month ago) a comment was left at Continuous Beams with Shear Deflections asking for a tutorial on how to use the ConBeam User Defined Function (UDF).  In this post I will give detailed instructions for the ConBeam function, but similar … Continue reading →

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Modifying spreadsheet data with VBA – the quick way

Posted on 25/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question recently came up (here) asking how to speed up the process of scanning a large range of data on one sheet, and wherever a cell had a value of zero, deleting the data in the same cell address … Continue reading →

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Writing Arrays to the worksheet – VBA function

Posted on 12/03/2012 by dougaj4

Previous posts have looked at the VBA code for efficiently writing a VBA array to the spreadsheet as quickly as possible, most recently here. I have now put this code in a function that can be conveniently called from any … Continue reading →

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VBA code generation on the spreadsheet

Posted on 07/02/2012 by dougaj4

A previous post looked at using VBA to generate more VBA code.  This post looks at automatic code generation on the spreadsheet, which may be transferred into the a VBA project using the techniques discussed in the earlier post, or simply … Continue reading →

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Retrieving unique values from a range or array …

Posted on 31/01/2012 by dougaj4

… using the Scripting Dictionary object. in a previous post I looked at using the dictionary object to count connected elements in a finite element model.  This post looks at a more general (and simpler) usage to return unique values from … Continue reading →

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