Category Archives: VBA

Tanh-Sinh Quadrature Update 2

Posted on 22/11/2010 by dougaj4

I have copied the latest version of Graeme Dennes’ Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to my download site:  Click here to download Tanh-Sinh.zip As before, the download includes full open-source code, and detailed notes by Graeme. In the new version the Gauss-Kronrod function … Continue reading →

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Getting hard disk physical serial numbers

Posted on 21/11/2010 by dougaj4

There was a question at Eng-Tips about how to get the physical serial number of a hard disk (rather than the soft number, that is changed by a re-format): http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=285948&page=1 A search found this discussion with the answer: http://thedailyreviewer.com/office/view/programmatically-obtain-the-hard-disks-serial-number-from-vba-101853101 (see answer … Continue reading →

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Revision to CSpline2.xls

Posted on 11/11/2010 by dougaj4

It was recently reported to me that the cubic spline spreadsheet CSpline2.xls (posted here) was crashing on loading in Excel 2003.  It seems that the problem was with the ChartSpline function, and that there are no problems if this function is … Continue reading →

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Tool-tip tip

Posted on 10/11/2010 by dougaj4

Mike Woodhouse (Grumpy Old Programmer) recently posted a handy  little tip about tool-tips in the Visual Basic Editor. If you hover over a variable whilst de-bugging a VB routine, the current value of the variable is displayed as a tool-tip: but … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature update

Posted on 20/10/2010 by dougaj4

Graeme Dennes has been continuing work on his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature function, and recently sent me a revised version, which can be downloaded from: Tanh-Sinh.zip The main change is a new automatic tolerance adjustment feature which automatically increases the tolerance for … Continue reading →

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