Tag Archives: VBA

Dealing with dates 3: opening and saving csv files without data corruption

Posted on 11/06/2015 by dougaj4

This post makes use of a spreadsheet for reading data from text files, including comma separated value (csv) files.  The latest version includes a routine for saving the imported data in csv format.  It can be downloaded (including full open-source … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates 2: Getting cell data type and format code

Posted on 08/06/2015 by dougaj4

When working with imported data, or data from an opened csv file, it is often important to know the data type that has been used to store the data.  This may not be obvious, for instance in the previous post we … Continue reading →

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Reversing Bob

Posted on 31/05/2015 by dougaj4

Following our look at Weird Al Jankovic’s palindromic song, Bob, I have written two short VBA User Defined Functions (UDFs) to help writing palindromes (and possibly with other tasks as well). Reverse() will, as the name suggests, reverse any text entered as … Continue reading →

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Time to Lookup

Posted on 27/04/2015 by dougaj4

At Daily Dose of Excel Jeff Weir has been looking at alternative methods of applying the VLookup function and ways of getting precise timing of the different formulations. Based on his posts there I have written two Lookup User Defined … Continue reading →

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Re-sizing Array Functions

Posted on 14/04/2015 by dougaj4

The recent updates to the ConBeamU spreadsheet contained two new functions for entering and re-sizing array functions, and since they will be useful on any spreadsheet containing array functions (which here means almost all of them) I thought they deserved … Continue reading →

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