Category Archives: Excel

Revision to CSpline2.xls

Posted on 11/11/2010 by dougaj4

It was recently reported to me that the cubic spline spreadsheet CSpline2.xls (posted here) was crashing on loading in Excel 2003.  It seems that the problem was with the ChartSpline function, and that there are no problems if this function is … Continue reading →

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Tool-tip tip

Posted on 10/11/2010 by dougaj4

Mike Woodhouse (Grumpy Old Programmer) recently posted a handy  little tip about tool-tips in the Visual Basic Editor. If you hover over a variable whilst de-bugging a VB routine, the current value of the variable is displayed as a tool-tip: but … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature update

Posted on 20/10/2010 by dougaj4

Graeme Dennes has been continuing work on his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature function, and recently sent me a revised version, which can be downloaded from: Tanh-Sinh.zip The main change is a new automatic tolerance adjustment feature which automatically increases the tolerance for … Continue reading →

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Interactive File List

Posted on 20/10/2010 by dougaj4

Microsoft recently introduced the facility to embed a link to a live spreadsheet stored on Windows Skydrive. This is my first attempt to use this facility.  The spreadsheet below is a list of all the files published on this blog, together … Continue reading →

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Update to Beam1 and Beam2

Posted on 16/10/2010 by dougaj4

It has just been pointed out that the single span beam spreadsheet presented at Frame Analysis with Excel 1 does not work for a propped cantilever.  The same applies to the spreadsheet for single span sloping beams at Frame Analysis with … Continue reading →

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