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Objectless Check Boxes using VBA
For my first ever blog post (be gentle with me!) I wanted to talk about an issue I have with Excel’s check box object, and my way of resolving it. It’s not perfect, and I’d love to hear of any other...
View ArticleTime to go home…
I do a lot of work in spreadsheets and some cannot be left open on my PC as that’d make them locked for the morning report refresh. After a bunch of times having to buy cakes for so delaying the...
View ArticleCenter across selection
Merging cells is easily done and can help make a spreadsheet look neat, but what you really, really should be doing instead is centering across the selection so it looks merged but isn’t. Center across...
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Making charts with conditionally coloured series
The example I’m running through is available at http://sdrv.ms/11lH3KR The scenario we’re looking at is where we want to be able to convey quality within a chart by having differently coloured...
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Dynamic named ranges – the basics
Whoah nelly, what’s a named range first of all let alone a dynamic one? A named range is a shorthand or alias for a set of cells in Excel. These can be created easily by simply selecting one or more...
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RegEx functions in VBA
Regular Expressions (RegEx) is a common string processing technique for handling strings that conform to patterns, as opposed to fixed strings. XKCD Perl Problems It is an excellent set of...
View ArticleDynamic named range generator
Why do I use dynamic named ranges? Where I work, most reports are exposed via a web front-end and Excel can create an external connection and retrieve the information. This is much safer than using...
View ArticleR for database and Excel people
What is R? R is a statistical language for doing all sorts of analytics based on many different types of data and it’s also an open source platform that allows people to extend the base functionality....
View ArticleSpell check your spreadsheets
Just a quick tip for spreadsheet users about spellchecking in Excel. Firstly, yes you can spell check a spreadsheet. Secondly, you do it either by going to Review > Check Spelling, or more easily by...
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