Category: Excel

Excel 2007 Compatibility Checker

This is a pretty cool new feature in Excel 2007 that I think will pay some dividends to people. The main intention is to ensure that users working in 2007 files are notified when they'll lose functionality by saving back

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wks format gone in Excel 2007

This came as a bit of a surprise to me, but you can no longer open/save a file in the old Lotus wks format in Excel 2007. Most people probably won't care about this, but I create batches of journal

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Forms Controls

I got an email the other day from a friend wondering if I had anything to explain how to use Form controls. I don't use them a lot, but they can be quite handy, and ironically I'd just finished using

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Using a Treeview Control

This is a tutorial on the creation of a simple Treeview control on an Excel userform. For the purposes of this example, we'll be populating the Treeview control with worksheet names and the addresses of cells with formulas in them.

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VBA vs VB.Net

Over the weekend I've spent a significant amount of time working in Visual Studio 2005 with VB.net. The more I work with it, the more I like the IDE, and some of the cool things that I can do in

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