Category Archives: VBA

Arcs and arc-splines

I have added two user defined functions (UDFs) to the IP2 spreadsheet to generate coordinates for a single  arc, or a series of arcs connected (if necessary) by straight lines.  The new version may be downloaded from: IP2.zip As an example … Continue reading

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New Tricks …

… or in some cases, old but forgotten tricks. The first comes from a Quora question, asking for the most underutilised feature in Excel. When de-bugging a VBA routine you can set a break point where the code will stop: … Continue reading

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VBA vs Power Query vs Python

A recent post at Chandoo’s Excel Forum asked for a formula to extract all pairs of digits from a number with 4 digits.  This was soon extended to dealing with longer numbers, and the examples looked at here will work with … Continue reading

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Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy

Following the previous post I have adapted the units code to use the Pint package, and added a function using the Sympy equation solver, with Pint units.  I have applied the functions to finding the depth of neutral axis of a … Continue reading

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Working with units in Excel – using VBA and Python

One of the most frequent reasons given for not using Excel for engineering and scientific applications is its very limited  facilities for dealing with calculations involving units.  It is possible to overcome this deficiency with VBA (see  Daily Download 24: … Continue reading

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