Category Archives: VBA

Geometry for Joiners

Posted on 03/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question came up on the ABC Self-Service-Science Forum, asking for a solution to find the dimensions of a diagonal brace looking like the diagram below: The solution is not as simple as it might look because the angle of … Continue reading →

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Writing Arrays to the worksheet – VBA function

Posted on 12/03/2012 by dougaj4

Previous posts have looked at the VBA code for efficiently writing a VBA array to the spreadsheet as quickly as possible, most recently here. I have now put this code in a function that can be conveniently called from any … Continue reading →

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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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Newton Excel Shakespeare

Posted on 27/02/2012 by dougaj4

Another excellent link from Al Vachris: Bruce McPherson’s Site This site is all about how to free your Excel data from your desktop and take advantage of web capabilities such as Docs, Maps, Earth , Gadgets, Visualizations and a whole … 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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