Tag Archives: Excel

3DFrame Ver 1.03 and Frame4 Ver 3.07

Posted on 17/03/2013 by dougaj4

Updated versions of my 2D and 3D frame analysis spreadsheets are now available for download from: 3DFrame.zip Frame4.zip The download files include full open-source VBA code, and dll files for compiled solvers for much better performance with large models. See https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/frame4-now-with-added-alglib/ for … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Link to dll, Newton, VBA | Tagged , , , | 34 Comments

Tanh-Sinh Quadrature V4.1

Posted on 16/03/2013 by dougaj4

The latest update to the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet from Graeme Dennes is now available for download from: Tanh-Sinh. As usual, the download includes full open-source code and extensive documentation. Version 4.1 Release Notes  1.   Small but useful accuracy improvements have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Clearing excess formats

Posted on 16/03/2013 by dougaj4

I have recently been getting messages about “too many different cell formats”, particularly when saving  a 2007/10 format file as Excel 97-2003 format.  Some searching revealed that the source of the problem was a bug that caused unused styles to be copied when … Continue reading →

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what Microsoft think VBA is good for …

Posted on 06/03/2013 by dougaj4

The front page of Excel for Developers now has a link entitled VBA, which takes you to: VBA for Excel developers which has a link entitled When to use VBA and why which says: There are three principal reasons to consider VBA … Continue reading →

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What is VBA good for? …

Posted on 25/02/2013 by dougaj4

… is the name of a Stackoverflow thread that sends a steady trickle of visitors here (thanks to a link posted by Charles Williams of FastExcel).  On a similar theme, Smurf on Spreadsheets has a post entitled “What’s so good … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing - general, Excel, VBA | Tagged , , , | 16 Comments