Tag Archives: VBA

Drawing in Excel 7 – Creating drawings from coordinates

Previous Post, Drawing in Excel 6 The file PlotXYcontains routines to plot scale drawings in Excel from a list of XY coordinates of node points, node points for each shape, and formatting details for each shape type.  The plot is scaled … Continue reading

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Reinforced Concrete Section Analysis 7 – rectangular sections

Previous post The spreadsheets presented in earlier posts in this series have been simplified for use with rectangular sections with two layers of reinforcement.  The functions EStress (for elastic analysis of stresses, strains and crack widths) and UMom (for the … Continue reading

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A Question of Spelling

The Excel VBA routine below will check the spelling of the text in the current selected cell, and return either TRUE or FALSE in the adjacent cell to the right: Sub SpellChecksub() Dim Checkword As String, Result As Boolean Checkword … Continue reading

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Drawing in Excel 6 – getting shape properties

Previous post One of the less than useful new “features” of Excel 2007 is that its macro recorder no longer records operations on shapes, which removes the easiest way to discover the exact names of shape properties, and how to manipulate … Continue reading

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Solving simultaneous equations

Solving a series of simultaneous equations is a task frequently required in engineering and scientific analysis.  Excel provides the tools to perform this task quickly and easily, but the procedure is not documented in the on-line help (so far as … Continue reading

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