VBA is not a scripting language… Not at all!
Yesterday, I have decided to make an account in codeforeces.com and to check how the system works. Pretty much quite well, in 90 minutes I have managed to solve 2 of the 5 problems: I have decided to stop, because for …
In the current article, I will show how to resolve with VBA an entry exam for programming in HackBulgaria. The problems could be resolved in any language and I will use VBA for the first two in this article. The idea …
Some time ago I was working over an Excel file, making it look like a cool application. As far as I was getting paid for it, it had to look really outstanding 🙂 In VBA, there is a way to make your Excel …
Throwing dices used to be a way to gamble. Nowadays, with TexasHoldEm all over the internet, this game is forgotten 🙂 Probably for good. Anyway, at the beginning of statistics every student is required to resolve some problems, containing dice, cards or …
Today I was working with the Excel color styles and I tought that they are actually pretty well made. But for some reason I wanted to have a reverse of the styles and I did not want to waste time to define a …
In the current article, I will show how to resolve with VBA an entry exam for programming in HackBulgaria. The problems could be resolved in any language and I will use VBA for this last task. The program is actually the …
In the current article, I will present the way to calculate the number of chars in a string with VBA. The inspiration came from the entry exam forHackBulgaria Programming 101v3. The tasks were given some months ago, so I assume it …
In the current article, I will present the way to calculate the number of chars in a string with VBA. The inspiration came from the entry exam forHackBulgaria Programming 101v3. The tasks were given some months ago, so I assume it …
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In the current article, I will present the way to calculate the number of chars in a string with VBA. The inspiration came from the entry exam for HackBulgaria Programming 101v3. The tasks were given some months ago, so I assume …
The book Power-Up Using Excel VBA Sorts and Searches: Advanced Techniques for Lightning Fast Sorts and Searches by Rich Locus presents VBA code, that can be used for Searches and Sorts. The idea behind the book is to present the commands VLookup, Match …
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In this rather small article I have decided to show how to take input from arrays for Excel custom formulas. In order to do this, I have decided to make a custom formula, calculating the second biggest number from a given sequence. …
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As I have already mentioned in some articles here and there, in order to find something valuable and interesting to blog about, I convert tasks from C# into VBA. The C# task from the SoftUni looked like this: Define a class …
For quite some time I have decided to solve some of the C# competition exams of the SoftUni in Excel. The problem for today is called Cheat Sheet and you may find the description here. Long story short, you have to …
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After the previous two articles, in which I have resolved two C# competition problems of the SoftUni, located here and here I have decided to resolve a new one. Pretty much, it turns out that it is really possible to …
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In the previous article here I made a custom formula, building a plane in Excel. The idea for the article was inspired from the SoftUni entrance exam. Today I have done something similar – I found a challenge, where one was asked …
Today I have decided to resolve one of the competition problem of the C# basics exam of the SoftUni (www.softuni.bg) with Excel. I have shown how I have resolved a similar problem in C#, where you should have drawn a glass …
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Yesterday I wrote an article for an Excel function, checking whether a specified number is prime or not. Today I tought that it would be somehow a good idea to modify this function, in a way to check the number and …
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Prime Numbers Excel Function Prime numbers are numbers, divisible by themselves. In the current example I simply made an Excel VBA function telling us whether a number is prime or not. It works as a charm 🙂 Check the prime numbers between …
MS Excel has a pretty good search option – you have probably used the Ctrl+F option a lot. Anyway, in the current article I will show you how to generate your own Search Engine. Why would you need it? Because …
There are a few ways to set a shortcut for a macro. The easiest one is through the menu Developer> Macros > Options, select the macro and write the shortcut: However, there is a better way to do this – with …
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For a reason, you may wish to simply add a value in an excel cell and to have it automatically summed with the value, that was previously present in the cell. This can be valuable, if you are building some …
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Sometimes you may wish to load a web page from Excel. Just for fun. Then you have probably googled it and you realized that the command “ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add” exists. Then you simply decided to try it but, something did not happen …
Sometimes, you may want a button to perform different actions. It is quite easy to make one with an On/Off, but when you would like to make a button, performing 4 different actions in VBA, the story goes a little …
VBA is an object-oriented language. As such, it is quite OK to create classes and to assign properties to these classes there. In the current article I will show how to create a class “clsPC” with three properties – Processor, Video …
How much time do you need to build something like this in Excel? At least 20 minutes + a lot of lost nerves for the formatting. Unless you use VBA and you build it within some seconds 🙂 Pretty much …
Every VBA programmer needs to know how to extract data from and to separate files. This is a really valuable knowledge, if you are building MS Office app, which is to be used by a third-party. In the current article I …
Today I was looking for a solution, giving me the option to locate a string, defined between two strings. Pretty much the story of any developer’s life. So, I found a really useful resource, which helped me to build my …
When you work with professionally built VBA tool, sometimes logging your actions (or the actions of some colleague) if the file is shared, can be of use. The idea is not to go into spying, but simply to check who …
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Code reusability is important in any programming language. The main idea is to write as little as possible for easier maintenance. And, as it sometimes happens, writing less is much more difficult, than writing a lot. In the current article, …
Probably you have heard something about PHP. If you have, then you know that it supports arrays (and lists and anything you like) and you may declare any type of data in these. In VBA, usually the case …