Category Archives: Computing – general

What is VBA good for? …

Posted on 25/02/2013 by dougaj4

… is the name of a Stackoverflow thread that sends a steady trickle of visitors here (thanks to a link posted by Charles Williams of FastExcel).  On a similar theme, Smurf on Spreadsheets has a post entitled “What’s so good … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 33: Miscellaneous

Posted on 21/10/2012 by dougaj4

This is the last of the month and a bit of Daily Downloads, and consists of a bumper bundle of 20 spreadsheets with miscellaneous functions that didn’t fit in elsewhere: Repeating a set of data: for instance making three copies of … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 31: Linking to Fortran

Posted on 18/10/2012 by dougaj4

Several routines linking to Fortran dll files, produced with the Silverfrost Fortran compiler, have been provided in previous daily downloads.  Today’s files are example routines, provided with posts covering the procedures to link Excel to Fortran code.  Note that these files … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 30: Data Transfer, to and from VBA

Posted on 17/10/2012 by dougaj4

Today’s downloads cover procedures and functions for the transfer of data between VBA and the spreadsheet, and within VBA. Array resources provides a variety of resources and web links covering the transfer of data on the spreadsheet to VBA arrays. Download: http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/getarray.zip … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 29: Using VBA – linking to C

Posted on 16/10/2012 by dougaj4

The final few days of the daily download series will be dealing with the use of VBA, starting with linking to C (and C++).  This was covered in: Linking Excel to C Linking Excel to C – 2 Linking Excel … Continue reading →

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