Category: Excel

Office PDF/XPS Addin

One of the big things that Office 2007 was supposed to bring was the ability to save to a PDF file, without getting extra software. Somewhere along the line, they decided to make this feature an Add-in, which can be

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700 pages

A couple of days ago, Johan asked how it was possible to write almost 700 pages on the Ribbon... I figured that this was probably as good an opportunity to tell what is in the book (RibbonX - Customizing the

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New tool for Excel users

One of the big tools missing from my coding arsenal has been a place to store code that I've written.  Jon Peltier claims that one of his most important tools for developing is Google, and I can't argue with that. 

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Force User To Enable Macros

Introduction: There are times when you may need to force your users to enable macros to work with your files. Maybe you've programmed some special functions to work with your file, for example. Unfortunately, Office's security settings can get in

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Stripping data from an imported file

Most of us, when we start dabbling with Excel macros, probably take the following steps: Record code Begin to make minor edits to the code Eventually learn about loops and start using them everywhere Learn that loops are "expensive" and

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