Tag Archives: Excel

Opening and searching pdf files from Excel

Posted on 30/12/2015 by dougaj4

The file PdfLink.zip (free download with open source code) contains two short but useful macros for opening and searching pdf files from Excel. The first is based on code from My Engineering World. I have just added a simple interface … Continue reading →

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Max, Min, and Aggregate

Posted on 11/12/2015 by dougaj4

Recently I needed to find the maximum and minimum of a range of values including some #N/A values.  Searching found a variety of solutions, of which the simplest (that works in all versions) seems to be: =MAX(IF(ISNUMBER(datarange),datarange)) =MIN(IF(ISNUMBER(datarange),datarange)) The function … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.08

Posted on 29/11/2015 by dougaj4

The continuous beam spreadsheet has had another update to fix a problem when point loads were applied to cantilevers, and the first support position was not listed as an output point.  The new version (4.08) can be downloaded from: ConbeamU.zip … Continue reading →

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Importing Text Files; Unix Format

Posted on 10/11/2015 by dougaj4

Text files generated on Unix systems have a different convention to denote the ends of lines to that used on Dos/Windows systems (see Newline for more details).  This was causing problems with the Text-in2 spreadsheet, with small files being imported with … Continue reading →

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Solving non-linear equations with two or more unknowns – 5

Posted on 20/10/2015 by dougaj4

This will be the last of the series on solving non-linear equations (for now).  Up until now all the examples have had two unknown values, and two target values.  This can be extended by making three changes to the code: … Continue reading →

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