Author: Ken Puls

Modifying the Ribbon – Part 3

Here's the previous parts to this: -Part 1 -Part 2 Using Excel's Images on Custom Ribbon Controls In Part 2, we built the following custom group on a custom tab: This time, we'll replace all the happy face images with

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 2

Part 1 of this series can be found here. In this post, I'm going to show a few more examples of customizing the ribbon using buttons. (We'll get to other types of controls later.) All of these are variations of

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Intelli-UDF Formulas

Now this is kind of cool... In Excel 2003, when you opened the brackets on a formula, it would launch a little help feature as shown below: In Excel 2007, they go one step further. As soon as you hit

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Virtualization

Over the past year and a bit, I've begun playing with Virtualization on my PC. The reason was mainly because I got very tired of having to rebuild my OS when I inevitably got it so cluttered with garbage that

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Displaying Quick Numerical info

Excel has a very handy little feature that is included on the Excel status bar. It shows a quick snapshot of information that may be helpful if you are working with numbers. To display its use, enter a few numbers

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Using Help in Your Applications

Introduction: One of the biggest parts lacking in user constructed solutions is documentation in the form of help files. As coders, we usually find it easier to build the application than explain to someone how to use it properly. After

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Printing Access Reports To A PDF File

This article contains code examples to print a Microsoft Access report to a PDF file. This code examples is built for PDFCreator, an open source PDF writer utility. Unlike Adobe Acrobat and CutePDF, which both require pro versions to create

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