Category Archives: UDFs

Numerical integration with on-sheet calculations

Posted on 08/07/2020 by dougaj4

Following a comment here I have prepared a spreadsheet that works through the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature process with on-sheet calculations.  For that purpose Graeme Dennes has provided a simplified version of the code: QUAD_RODRIGUEZ_TANH_SINH for finite intervals. Translated from HP RPN … Continue reading →

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XY Chart problems – 2

Posted on 16/06/2020 by dougaj4

The previous chart post (XY Chart problems – 1) looked at problems plotting charts with very short data ranges.  An associated problem is plotting XY charts with data with gaps (see When is an XY chart not an XY chart …? and … Continue reading →

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New sort functions and sorting to groups

Posted on 16/05/2020 by dougaj4

I first posted a user defined function (UDF) to sort spreadsheet or VBA data back in 2009.  Finally Microsoft have caught up, and Excel 365 subscribers now have two built in sort functions available: =SORT(array,[sort_index],[sort_order],[by_col]) =SORTBY(array, by_array1, [sort_order1], [by_array2, sort_order2],…) … Continue reading →

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Getting near matches from a list with Python

Posted on 19/04/2020 by dougaj4

To return a list of near matches from a long list of strings would be quite difficult in VBA (unless I’m missing something), but in Python it is very simple.  Here is the code for this operation, using pyxll to … Continue reading →

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Stepping through Python code called from Excel

Posted on 31/03/2020 by dougaj4

Setting up your editor to allow Python code debugging for functions called from Excel can be tricky, depending on the details of your editor and linking software, but using the Visual Studio Code Editor and Pyxll, this works for me: … Continue reading →

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