Tag Archives: VBA

Charts and Charting

I don’t do a lot on Excel charts because there are already a number of excellent blogs and sites that specialise in that area; notably: Peltier Tech Blog but after compiling my “Downloads by Category” page I found that I … Continue reading

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3DFrame – 3D Frame analysis for Excel

I have now extended the Frame4 spreadsheet to deal with 3D frames.  As well as making the necessary changes to the input ranges and stiffness matrix generation routines I have revised the Sparse solver routine, added a new compiled solver, and … Continue reading

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Extracting a hyperlink

Excel does not have a function to extract the address from a cell containing a hyperlink.  Here is a short UDF that will do the job: The original was a one-liner posted by Rick Rosthstein on Debra Dalgleish’s Contextures Blog.  I … Continue reading

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The angle between two vectors, in 2D or 3D

Finding the angle between two lines in 2D is easy, just find the angle of each line with the x-axis from the slope of the line and take the difference.  In 3D it is not so obvious, but it can … Continue reading

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature V4.0

Since last September Graeme Dennes has continued work on his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet, and has recently released Version 4.0, which can be downloaded from: Tanh-Sinh. As usual, the download includes full open-source code and extensive documentation. The new version includes routines … Continue reading

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