Category Archives: Excel

Using Section Properties- Group

Following a recent comment I have updated the documentation for finding the section properties of groups of shapes in the Section-Properties-Group spreadsheet.  The revised file can be downloaded from: Section Properties07-Group.zip The screenshots below illustrate use of the Group function to … Continue reading

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Passing variable argument lists from Excel to Python via xlwings

When calling a Python function it is sometimes necessary to pass a variable number of arguments.  Examples from the xlw_Scipy spreadsheet include: Curve fitting functions, for which the functions to be fitted may have any number of arguments. The Scipy … Continue reading

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New Links – 2018

Some new links to active Excel related blogs: David Hagar has been active in the Excel community for many years, and has published the Excel For You blog since 2013.  I was led to it by a recent post on a UDF … Continue reading

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Returning Arrays From VBA and Python

Most  of the  user defined functions (UDFs) presented on this blog return a multi-cell array, that must be entered by selecting the output range then pressing Ctrl-shift-enter to display all the results.  This process has several inconveniencies: You need to know … Continue reading

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More Numpy with Excel and xlwings

The spreadsheet presented in the last post on sorting also includes links to many other Numpy functions.  The spreadsheet and associated Python file can be downloaded from: xlNumpy.zip The Numpy functions require xlwings and Numpy to be installed, which are included in … Continue reading

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