Category Archives: UDFs

Getting the address of a selected range

Posted on 01/03/2012 by dougaj4

The Excel Indirect() function allows other functions to use the text in a worksheet cell to define a range, rather than selecting the range, or entering it directly into the function. For instance, if cell A1 contained the text B1:B10, … Continue reading →

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Strand7 API GetNode functions

Posted on 19/02/2012 by dougaj4

As promised in this post, I have written and documented Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to interface with all the Strand7 API functions that return node attributes or results.  These 22 functions allow node attributes and results to be read directly … Continue reading →

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VBA code generation on the spreadsheet

Posted on 07/02/2012 by dougaj4

A previous post looked at using VBA to generate more VBA code.  This post looks at automatic code generation on the spreadsheet, which may be transferred into the a VBA project using the techniques discussed in the earlier post, or simply … Continue reading →

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Retrieving unique values from a range or array …

Posted on 31/01/2012 by dougaj4

… using the Scripting Dictionary object. in a previous post I looked at using the dictionary object to count connected elements in a finite element model.  This post looks at a more general (and simpler) usage to return unique values from … Continue reading →

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The Switch Function (VBA and UDF)

Posted on 27/01/2012 by dougaj4

Switch is a VBA function that operates in a similar way to the Select Case statement.  The function arguments are a series of pairs of values, the first of each pair being an expression that can be evaluated as TRUE … Continue reading →

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