Tag Archives: Excel

Using Hyperlinks

Posted on 08/07/2018 by dougaj4

Hyperlinks are useful to link to other locations in a spreadsheet, or any location with an accessible address, but they can do more than that. A recent post at Daily Dose of Excel looks at using hyperlinks as a general … Continue reading →

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Using Section Properties- Group

Posted on 24/06/2018 by dougaj4

Following a recent comment I have updated the documentation for finding the section properties of groups of shapes in the Section-Properties-Group spreadsheet.  The revised file can be downloaded from: Section Properties07-Group.zip The screenshots below illustrate use of the Group function to … Continue reading →

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Passing variable argument lists from Excel to Python via xlwings

Posted on 08/06/2018 by dougaj4

When calling a Python function it is sometimes necessary to pass a variable number of arguments.  Examples from the xlw_Scipy spreadsheet include: Curve fitting functions, for which the functions to be fitted may have any number of arguments. The Scipy … Continue reading →

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New Links – 2018

Posted on 03/06/2018 by dougaj4

Some new links to active Excel related blogs: David Hagar has been active in the Excel community for many years, and has published the Excel For You blog since 2013.  I was led to it by a recent post on a UDF … Continue reading →

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Returning Arrays From VBA and Python

Posted on 01/06/2018 by dougaj4

Most  of the  user defined functions (UDFs) presented on this blog return a multi-cell array, that must be entered by selecting the output range then pressing Ctrl-shift-enter to display all the results.  This process has several inconveniencies: You need to know … Continue reading →

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