Category Archives: Excel

Chart Trend Lines and the Linest Function

At the Mr Excel discussion forum the output of the worksheet function Linest(), compared with chart trend lines raised a question, where it is said that in Excel 2007 the trend line gives different (and incorrect) coefficients for a polynomial curve … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis – with prestress

The simplified reinforced concrete section analysis spreadsheet presented here has been revised to allow the input of a pre-tension stress to either or both layers of reinforcement.  The spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be downloaded from RC Design Functions5. Note … Continue reading →

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Copy and Paste as Picture

If in Excel 2007 you copy a range to the clipboard and paste into Word as a picture you get the worksheet gridlines displayed, which may well not be what you want. This issue was raised at Smurf on Spreadsheets and … Continue reading →

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Three UDFs

This post is in response to recent discussions at Daily-Dose-of-Excel where many and various worksheet formulas have been suggested to carry out tasks that are (it seems to me) better done with a simple User Defined Function (UDF): Adding Every … Continue reading →

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LatPile – Analysis of Lateral Loads on Piles

This post presents an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to carry out the analysis of vertical piles subject to horizontal loads, using the same approach as employed in the DOS program COM624. A spreadsheet including the UDF and an on-spreadsheet … Continue reading →

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