More small business owners than you might think are creating and writing their own software programs, and many times their first programming baby steps involve the use of Visual Basic for Applications ...

Alan is a technology author based in Nova Scotia, Canada. A computer enthusiast since his youth, Alan stays current on what is new and what is next. With over 30 years of experience in computer, video ...

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets. You can use VBA to prompt the user to enter a filename ...

Excel is a useful program for creating tables, graphs and making complicated calculations automatically. It might seem complicated at the beginning, but when you get to know Excel's features, the ...

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For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. This time it’ll ...

This book is a resource for professors. It explains how the Excel files on this web site can be used in a variety of ways to help students learn. The files are standalone and freely available. They ...

Export your VBA code for use in another Excel application Your email has been sent After creating UserForm1 for one Excel application, you realize that you'll want to use it again -- with a few ...

I used to think Excel macros were overkill because I had to go through the trouble of recording steps and tweaking code for something I could easily do manually. Then I was tasked with standardizing ...