Category Archives: VBA

Transferring data with arrays

Posted on 22/03/2010 by dougaj4

The earlier post: Transferring data within VBA looked at some important aspects of transferring data between subroutines in Excel VBA.  This post will look at arrays in particular, and some peculiarities that affect the way they work. VBA arrays are a very … Continue reading →

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Tension Stiffening

Posted on 12/03/2010 by dougaj4

Tension Stiffening in reinforced concrete is the increase in stiffness of a cracked member due to the development of tensile stresses in the concrete between the cracks.  The main application of tension stiffening theory in design applications is in the … Continue reading →

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The speed of loops

Posted on 07/03/2010 by dougaj4

Commenting on the Good Practice post, John Tolle pointed out that with a collection it was very much quicker to loop using a For each loop than iterating by index, using a for, next loop.  I did some simple tests on this, … Continue reading →

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Stringing more than two words together

Posted on 01/03/2010 by dougaj4

It has always seemed strange to me that the Excel function Concatenate(), which has such a long name, provides no additional functionality over using the & operator. The TextString function is a simple User Defined Function (UDF) which provides the … Continue reading →

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Transferring data within VBA

Posted on 25/02/2010 by dougaj4

The use of inappropriate techniques for passing data between sub-routines and modules is probably one of the most frequent causes of error in VBA programs, but many text books provide little guidance on this subject, and what there is, is … Continue reading →

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