Category: VBA

Trick to Protect Excel Tables

Slobodan emailed me to describe a trick to protect Excel tables that he is using to drive data validation lists.  The data validation lists are sourced from tables loaded via Power Query, and leverage a little hack to hide them

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MZ-Tools 8.0 for VBA

One of my favourite add-ins of all time just got an upgrade, and I’m super stoked about it.  Why?  Because I can use it again! As I began my VBA journey, there were two add-ins that I used all the

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Update: Refresh Power Queries With VBA

Some time back I posted a routine to refresh Power Queries with VBA, allowing you to refresh all Power Queries in a workbook. Things Changing… The challenge with that specific macro is that it refers to the connection name, which

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Prompt for a Folder at Refresh

I got a comment on my blog the other day from David, asking if we could make Power Query prompt for a folder at refresh, allowing us to choose which folder to should be used to consolidate files.  That sounds

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Refresh Power Query With VBA

When I’ve finished building a solution in Excel, I like to give it a little polish, and really make it easy for my users to update it.  The last thing I want to do is to send them right clicking

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Making Pivot Table Hyperlinks Clickable

If you’ve ever built a PivotTable that contains hyperlinks, you’ll notice that clicking the hyperlinks doesn’t do anything. This can be a bit frustrating as the reason you put that field on the Pivot in the first place is that

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Easy Outlook Email Integration

Over several years of participating in forums, and working on my own projects, I always felt it was a bit awkward to create and send new emails through Excel. Invariably, every time I found that I needed email code, I

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