Category Archives: Excel

Geometry for Joiners

Posted on 03/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question came up on the ABC Self-Service-Science Forum, asking for a solution to find the dimensions of a diagonal brace looking like the diagram below: The solution is not as simple as it might look because the angle of … 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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Getting the address of a selected range

Posted on 01/03/2012 by dougaj4

The Excel Indirect() function allows other functions to use the text in a worksheet cell to define a range, rather than selecting the range, or entering it directly into the function. For instance, if cell A1 contained the text B1:B10, … Continue reading →

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Newton Excel Shakespeare

Posted on 27/02/2012 by dougaj4

Another excellent link from Al Vachris: Bruce McPherson’s Site This site is all about how to free your Excel data from your desktop and take advantage of web capabilities such as Docs, Maps, Earth , Gadgets, Visualizations and a whole … Continue reading →

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4 Year Report

Posted on 25/02/2012 by dougaj4

As in previous years, I have downloaded the statistics for this blog for the previous year, and pasted them into a worksheet. The link to each post is preserved in the spreadsheet, so it makes a convenient index to what … Continue reading →

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