Tag Archives: Excel

Formatting Text from VBA

Posted on 30/03/2017 by dougaj4

In a recent Eng-Tips thread someone wanted a VBA routine to combine a value with different + and – tolerance values, formatted as superscript and subscript.  Eng-Tips (and Tek-Tips) regular, Skip Vought, came up with a macro to do the job, … Continue reading →

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Extracting numbers from text – update

Posted on 11/03/2017 by dougaj4

I have previously posted a spreadsheet with user defined functions (UDFs) using regular expressions to extract numbers from a text string (see Extracting numbers from text and regular expressions). I have now modified the Extractnums function to optionally return the numbers … Continue reading →

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The meaning of = in Python

Posted on 26/02/2017 by dougaj4

In VBA, if you have an array named a and a variant named b, then the statement “b = a” creates a new array b with the same size and values as a.  If the values of either a or b are subsequently changed, the values of the … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.13

Posted on 22/02/2017 by dougaj4

The continuous beam analysis spreadsheet, ConBeamU, is now up to version 4.13 with some minor bug-fixes, and the addition of a non-linear option for the BeamAct functions. See ConBeamU for more details of the functions available in the spreadsheet. Download … Continue reading →

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February Links

Posted on 16/02/2017 by dougaj4

Two new links with valuable free resources: .net and office automation follies : including many advanced VBA resources.  Thanks to Alfred Vachris for the link. AET VBE Tools : Tools for the Visual Basic editor from Andrew Engwirda (via Daily Dose of … Continue reading →

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