Tag Archives: Excel

Fast Search Reminder

Posted on 30/08/2021 by dougaj4

A recent comment at Opening and searching pdf files from Excel reminded of the linked spreadsheet, which allows pdf files to be opened at a specified page from Excel, and also fast searches of the local hard drive: PdfLink.zip (free download … Continue reading →

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More on Numba

Posted on 15/08/2021 by dougaj4

Following my recent post Making Finite Element Analysis go faster … I have been having a closer look at the options in the Numba just-in-time compiler for improving the performance of Python code. The Numba docs include a series of short … Continue reading →

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Copying charts to a new workbook

Posted on 25/07/2021 by dougaj4

When an Excel worksheet including a chart(s) is copied to a new workbook the chart still links to the data ranges in the original workbook. Over the years I have spent a fair bit of time editing the chart ranges … Continue reading →

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On long and short formulas and VBA

Posted on 17/07/2021 by dougaj4

A recent thread at Eng-Tips asked the following apparently simple question: Starting with a string consisting of numbers with a single central group of letters, how can this string be truncated at the end of the letters, so that for … Continue reading →

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ULS Design Functions 2.13

Posted on 11/07/2021 by dougaj4

Update 17 May 2022: Following discussion on 10-11 May 22 the download file has been updated to version 2.15, fixing problems with the interaction diagram with a rectangular stress block under high axial loads. I have uploaded another update to … Continue reading →

Posted in Concrete, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 25 Comments