Category Archives: Excel

Strand7 API GetNode functions

Posted on 19/02/2012 by dougaj4

As promised in this post, I have written and documented Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to interface with all the Strand7 API functions that return node attributes or results.  These 22 functions allow node attributes and results to be read directly … Continue reading →

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Embedding Skydrive worksheets in WordPress

Posted on 16/02/2012 by dougaj4

On the Download page of this blog I have a list of files available for download, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet stored on the Microsoft Skydrive site.  I recently discovered that this link had stopped working, and that the … Continue reading →

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Animated Pythagoras

Posted on 13/02/2012 by dougaj4

Two animatations of a “wordless” proof of Pythaoras’ Theorem provided by SSSF regular PM 2Ring. This animation is a “wordless proof” of Pythagoras’ theorem. The basic design is an interlocking pattern of coloured squares overlaid with “shadow” squares. In most … 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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