Category Archives: UDFs

xlSciPy – Python SciPy for Excel; Update with new functions

The xlSciPy spreadsheet, previously described here, has been updated with new functions for integration, finding equation roots and maxima and minima, solving systems of non-linear equations, and evaluation of equations entered as text.  The new version (including full open-source VBA … Continue reading →

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Worksheetfunction.Transpose – changed behaviour in Excel 2013 and 2016

It is (fairly) well known that when using Worksheetfunction.Transpose on an array in VBA the array must be no more than 65,536 (2^16) rows long, or it will return an error. Recently when using Excel 2016 (32 bit) I thought … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.08

The continuous beam spreadsheet has had another update to fix a problem when point loads were applied to cantilevers, and the first support position was not listed as an output point.  The new version (4.08) can be downloaded from: ConbeamU.zip … Continue reading →

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Importing Text Files; Unix Format

Text files generated on Unix systems have a different convention to denote the ends of lines to that used on Dos/Windows systems (see Newline for more details).  This was causing problems with the Text-in2 spreadsheet, with small files being imported with … Continue reading →

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The VBA Decimal data type

This is what the Microsoft on-line help says about using the Decimal data type in VBA “” At least that is what the Microsoft search listed for me, and Google listed nothing from Microsoft related to VBA on the first … Continue reading →

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