Category: Excel

The Best Line of VBA Ever

Okay, I'll admit that you probably have to be a parent of a young child to agree with this, but here it is: [code]Application.Speech.Speak Target[/code] This all started when I showed my kid how fast the computer could count to

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Always Refer to the Cell Above

Introduction How many times have you built a table of data, and put totals on it. You ship it out the door, and another user comes along and inserts a new row right before the totals row? If you have

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Using Styles in Excel – Why and How

What are Styles? A style is pre-defined set of formatting instructions held together in one convenient package. They can be configured to apply one, two or many formatting characteristics, and can be applied to a worksheet cell or range very

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Understanding Dates in Excel

What are Dates? This may seem like a strange thing to ask but, as far as Excel is concerned, dates are numbers. By storing them as such, it gives us the ability to add or subtract days to/from a date,

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Forms Controls in Excel

Introduction This article covers the basics of using Form Controls in an Excel worksheet, and originated from one of my blog posts, which can be found here. While I don't tend to use Form Controls a great deal, they are

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