Category Archives: Excel

Importing tab delimited files and clearing large ranges

Posted on 01/03/2009 by dougaj4

Wray Sisk commented on Importing text files with VBA – 3, asking if it could be modified to read tab delimited files. It could be, and has been; download here: Text-in2.ZIP It turned out to be a simple task; just … Continue reading →

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You can’t count on money

Posted on 28/02/2009 by dougaj4

An interesting bug is reported at Daily Dose of Excel: Code snipit to test If you use a variable of data type currency as a counter in VBA you get some very strange behaviour.  The function below returns the result … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Newton Excel Bach

Posted on 21/02/2009 by dougaj4

Newton Excel Bach is one year old today.   To mark the occasion I have downloaded the statistics for number of hits on each post, and pasted them into an Excel worksheet.  The link to each post is preserved in the … Continue reading →

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IP.xls updated

Posted on 16/02/2009 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet IP.xls has been updated (previous post) with the addition of a function to find the minimum perpendicular distance from a point (or series of points) to a polyline: Pdist =PDist(Line,Points) Line is a range with at least two rows containing … Continue reading →

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Frame Analysis with Excel – 4, 2D frame analysis

Posted on 15/02/2009 by dougaj4

Continuing from: Frame Analysis with Excel – 3, Continuous beam or frame Download Frame1.zip – the download file includes complete open source code. The continuous beam spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been modified to deal with 2D frames where any … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Frame Analysis, Newton, Uncategorized, VBA | Tagged , , , | 20 Comments