Category Archives: VBA

RC Design Functions 7.03

Posted on 06/04/2017 by dougaj4

The latest update to my RC Design Functions spreadsheet has just been uploaded, and is available for free download (including full open-source code) from: RC Design Functions7.zip The main new feature in the latest version is a new RCInteract function, which generates an … Continue reading →

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Indexing NumPy arrays with floats …

Posted on 01/04/2017 by dougaj4

… now you can’t. I recently updated to the latest version of NumPy (1.12.1), and today I discovered that some of my spreadsheets using NumPy arrays (via xlwings) were returning errors like: IndexError: only integers, slices (`:`), ellipsis (`…`), numpy.newaxis … Continue reading →

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Formatting Text from VBA

Posted on 30/03/2017 by dougaj4

In a recent Eng-Tips thread someone wanted a VBA routine to combine a value with different + and – tolerance values, formatted as superscript and subscript.  Eng-Tips (and Tek-Tips) regular, Skip Vought, came up with a macro to do the job, … Continue reading →

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Extracting numbers from text – update

Posted on 11/03/2017 by dougaj4

I have previously posted a spreadsheet with user defined functions (UDFs) using regular expressions to extract numbers from a text string (see Extracting numbers from text and regular expressions). I have now modified the Extractnums function to optionally return the numbers … Continue reading →

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The meaning of = in Python

Posted on 26/02/2017 by dougaj4

In VBA, if you have an array named a and a variant named b, then the statement “b = a” creates a new array b with the same size and values as a.  If the values of either a or b are subsequently changed, the values of the … Continue reading →

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