Category Archives: VBA

Tanh-Sinh Quadrature via F2PY

Posted on 31/01/2016 by dougaj4

Fast and accurate numerical integration routines based on the Tanh-Sinh method are available as Excel VBA based functions in the Tanh_Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes.  Graeme’s VBA code is based on open source Fortran code by Takuya Ooura, which … Continue reading →

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xlSciPy – Python SciPy for Excel; Update with new functions

Posted on 04/01/2016 by dougaj4

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

Posted on 01/01/2016 by dougaj4

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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Opening and searching pdf files from Excel

Posted on 30/12/2015 by dougaj4

The file PdfLink.zip (free download with open source code) contains two short but useful macros for opening and searching pdf files from Excel. The first is based on code from My Engineering World. I have just added a simple interface … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.08

Posted on 29/11/2015 by dougaj4

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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