Category Archives: UDFs

Section Properties of Defined Shapes – Spreadsheet

Download section properties spreadsheet from: http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/Section%20Properties03.zip http://www.interactiveds.com.au/software/Section%20Properties07.zip Section properties for 35 defined shapes Section properties from coordinates Section properties UDF Screen shots:

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Section Properties UDF and UDF charting

The technique for calculating section properties from coordinates is conveniently coded into a UDF: Function Area(xy_range As Variant) As Double Dim XYcells As Variant Dim N As Long, NumX As Long Dim XD As Double, YSum As Double XYcells = … Continue reading

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Ranges and Arrays – 2

Yesterday we looked at how to get data from a worksheet range into a VBA array.  Today’s post looks at the opposite operation; writing an array to a worksheet range.  With a UDF it couldn’t be simpler: Function MyFunction() as … Continue reading

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Ranges and Arrays

Transferring data from a worksheet into a VBA routine, or the other way round, is one of the most frequent tasks carried out in VBA programming.  Fortunately there is a simple way to do it: In a subroutine: Name the … Continue reading

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Worksheetfunction vs UDF

The previous post provided VBA code for a number of trigonometric functions, most of which are already available in Excel.  Why bother you may say, why not just use the WorksheetFunction object?  The numbers below provide the answer: Time to … Continue reading

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