Tag Archives: Excel

ConBeamU update

Posted on 20/09/2025 by dougaj4

Following a comment at https://newtonexcelbach.com/2023/01/20/using-conbeamu/ I have updated the ConBeamU-Template file so that the function to select the input range works the same as in the main spreadsheet. For more details of how the spreadsheet works, see the link above, … Continue reading →

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Text from pictures in Excel

Posted on 05/09/2025 by dougaj4

Excel recently added the ability to extract text from an image, either on the clipboard or from a selected file. To try this out I used a screenshot of a table with vertically aligned text, from a pdf copy of … Continue reading →

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Long integers in Python and Excel and py_Fact

Posted on 27/08/2025 by dougaj4

I have added a new py_Fact function to the py_Scipy module, that returns the factorial of an integer as a float if it is up to 15 digits long, or a string for longer numbers. The revised code, and the … Continue reading →

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Python functions for rotation

Posted on 22/08/2025 by dougaj4

I have recently needed code to rotate 2D coordinates, either about the origin, or some specified other point, using pyxll to call the code from Excel. My first attempt was a direct translation of some VBA code, that also worked … Continue reading →

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Evaluate and display definite integrals in Excel with Latex and Matplotlib

Posted on 09/08/2025 by dougaj4

The py_Evalu spreadsheet was last presented at Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 5 – Evaluate with Units and included the Plot_Math function, which converts a text string to Latex format, then uses Matplotlib to convert this to a graphic image, … Continue reading →

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