VBA is not a scripting language… Not at all!
Ok. This article is for all the people, who have written code like this one:
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When they were solving a problem like this one: You know who you are. You are probably thinking what is wrong with it? After…
C#, Python, Java and all the other “fancy” languages have a built-in method, which writes variables into a string. VBA does not have one. Depending on why do we need it, and if we can guarantee that no injection would…
Errors in Excel are different – from “Division by Zero” (#Div/0) and #Name to #REF! and #Num. There are lots of ways to summarize these into some kind of report and in the current article I will show the VBA…
Dreaming of having a boilerplate for Excel VBA project? Or you have other dreams, which are more normal? Well, I cannot help in the latter case, but if you want a boilerplate for VBA – here it is!
There are quite a few methods for writing data from a text file to Excel. The main are the following: Through a Query Table Through opening the text file and Reading and writing line by line Reading the text file,…
Although there are plenty of other tools for extracting data from a website (take a look at Beautiful Soup), VBA is somehow good, because … well, because it is somehow challenging to do it every time. Yesterday, I answered a…
Some 4 years ago I wrote an article for calculating magic square with python. What the article did was actually checking whether the square is magic, and not calculating a new one. This one is going to show how these…
Dropdown lists in Excel usually are built from a range or from a variable list. Dropdown list from Excel Range Thus, building a dynamic dropdown list may include building a dynamic range, with undeclared end. Thus, let’s imagine that the…
Writing formulas with Excel with Python is a technique, that needs some practice, actually. Although XlsWriter has some good documentaion, not a lot is covered on the point, that concerns creating a file with a formula in it. First and…
The birthday paradox is an interesting problem, mainly because of its somehow “unexpected” results. The problem usually is stated as the following: What is the minimum number of people in a room, in order to have a probability higher than…
The Excel Workbook object is a part of the Workbooks collection. The events are the code, which is “activated” or “triggered”, once a specific event happens. These events are different and could be unlimited, but there are a few built-in Workbook…
Writing code in the local language is actually taught by about 100% of the German VBA books, which I have read. Which is “kind of ok”, if the VBA code only works on German computers. However, if this is not…
Coloring the border of an Excel cell is a trivial task. The LineColor feature in Excel is easy to use out of the box: However, whenever half of the cell needs to be colored, the trick is a bit more tough…
After writing about the longest palindromic substring, now it is time to see the longest palindromic subsequence. What is the difference? Pretty much, if we take the word abracadabra: the longest substring is ada in abracadabra the longest subsequence is…
The longest palindromic substring algorithm exists since 1975. It is different (and easier) than the longest palindromic subsequence. The idea of the substring is to return “anana”, if “bananazorro” is given. This is achieved with a 2 dimensional boolean array matrix and…
Inserting an image to Excel with VBA is actually one line: ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Pictures.Insert ("C:\Users\myPic.png") The interesting part happens, when it should be correctly positioned. In order to position it the way we want, we need to give 3 parameters – the image…
The idea of the article is to make an updateable combobox, which takes all the keys of column A and writes them to the ComboBox. Then, upon selection of the corresponding values in the combobox, it provides the corresponding values…
The idea of the article is to show how to add, edit and remove specific entries of the ListBox in Excel through VBA: ListBox is a control, which is available through Developer>Insert>ActiveX>ListBox in Excel: Once you add it, it has…
Reversing words in a sentence with VBA in Excel is quite easy, using the built-in StrReverse function. StrReverse takes a string and reverses it. Thus, “VitoshAcademy.com” becomes “moc.ymedacAhsotiV”: The idea of reversing the order of the words in a sentence…
Excel’s ranges and cells are both complicated and very simple. They are simple, because everyone has an idea what is a range and what is a cell, and they are complicated, because these are both: Properties of the worksheet object…
Long time ago, an astronomer called Benford was taking a look at logarithm books, noticing that the earlier pages (starting with 1) are pretty much more worn out than the later ones. He thought about the result, and managed to…
VBA has a dictionary structure. Dictionary is an object, and it can be referenced either with early binding or with a late binding, referring to Microsoft Scripting Runtime: What is a dictionary? This is the Microsoft definition of the VBA…
It was some time ago, since I last took a look at programming challange in CodeForces, thus I have decided to take a look again. So, I chose the lowest problem of the second division just to boost up my…
Some months ago #VBA was finally considered the most dreaded language in the 2019 StackOverflow survey: One of the reasons for this, is probably that #VBA is quite too easy to enter, thus plenty of non-IT professionals feel fascinated about…
There are parts of #VBA, that can scare any VBA developer, who has not bumped into other languages. Although, the “abstract class” term is quite popular in C# and other languages, and is quite easy to be created, in VBA,…
Reading from Excel in C# is actally not at tough as many VBA developers would assume. The simple reading is actually quite straightforward – there is only small little trick, requiring the adding of the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel reference to the Visual…
Getting the last row of a given column in Excel with a formula or with VBA is quite a trivial task. It is explained here quite well 🙂 However, when we come to C#, the only “trick” that is provided…
Finding the biggest square of specific units in a given matrix of these units is a standard dynamic programming problem. The examples in Google for it are above 18 million, thus I would simply show how it is done with…
Copying an object in VBA to a new object is somehow tough. If you use Set foo = bar then, both foo and bar would be pointing to the same address in the heap. And if you change the properties of one, you would automatically…
The environmental variables are a dynamic-named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. With other words, if you want to see them in your PC, simply open the command prompt and write the nice word…