Category: Excel

Modifying the Ribbon – Part 6

As mentioned in Part 5 of this series, this post will display how to change the value of a Ribbon control from a VBA procedure. For this example, we will continue to work with the case presented in Part 5,

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 5

Previous posts on this subject: -Part 1 -Part 2 -Part 3 -Part 4 Creating a CheckBox Until now, all the posts have focussed on creating buttons in a variety of styles, shapes and sizes. Today, we'll take a look at

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 4

Previous posts on this subject: -Part 1 -Part 2 -Part 3 Using Your Own Picture on a Button Well... maybe not your own picture... unless you're feeling vain today. 😉 I really meant using an image of your choice. This

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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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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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