Tag Archives: Excel

Spreadsheet Solutions For Structural Engineering

Posted on 07/10/2011 by dougaj4

Another site where the tasks considered suitable for programming in Excel and VBA are anything but “boring and repetitive” is Yakpol’s Spreadsheet Solutions For Structural Engineering: “This web site contains a collection of engineering spreadsheets for structural analysis and design of concrete and … Continue reading →

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More on VBA

Posted on 06/10/2011 by dougaj4

Andy Pope posted the two links below in a comment to my previous post: A while back they added a VBA developer center to the msdn Office site. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/ff688774.aspx And this article on the Excel developer road map is interesting. … Continue reading →

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XLDennis, the MSDN Library, and VBA rant

Posted on 04/10/2011 by dougaj4

Dennis Wallentin, aka XLDennis, is a long time contributor to the on-line Excel community and co-author of the latest version of Professional Excel Development.  In recent years he has concentrated on the use of the VSTO and .NET products in … Continue reading →

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Inserting a list of names

Posted on 28/09/2011 by dougaj4

Another function that I don’t use much, and that got hidden by the Ribbon, is the command to insert a list of named ranges together with the addresses they refer to. Here’s where they hid it: On the Formulas Tab, … Continue reading →

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More on writing arrays to the worksheet

Posted on 28/09/2011 by dougaj4

Writing a large VBA array to the worksheet in a single operation, rather than cell by cell, can result in a huge improvement of the speed of many macros.  The basic technique was described here.  I recently wanted to modify this … Continue reading →

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