Category Archives: Arrays

Solving simultaneous equations

Solving a series of simultaneous equations is a task frequently required in engineering and scientific analysis.  Excel provides the tools to perform this task quickly and easily, but the procedure is not documented in the on-line help (so far as … Continue reading

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Section Properties UDF and UDF charting

The technique for calculating section properties from coordinates is conveniently coded into a UDF: Function Area(xy_range As Variant) As Double Dim XYcells As Variant Dim N As Long, NumX As Long Dim XD As Double, YSum As Double XYcells = … Continue reading

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Ranges and Arrays – 2

Yesterday we looked at how to get data from a worksheet range into a VBA array.  Today’s post looks at the opposite operation; writing an array to a worksheet range.  With a UDF it couldn’t be simpler: Function MyFunction() as … Continue reading

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Ranges and Arrays

Transferring data from a worksheet into a VBA routine, or the other way round, is one of the most frequent tasks carried out in VBA programming.  Fortunately there is a simple way to do it: In a subroutine: Name the … Continue reading

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