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This post is all about IF--not the poem by Rudyard Kipling, or the 1971 hit song by Bread, but the function . The IF function is used in many Office programs, but most of us know it from Microsoft Excel: IF(logical_test, [value_if_true], [value_if_false]) IF is one of the most searched-for words on Office.com, so we thought we’d compile some of our resources on IF so you can find them more easily. ...( read more ) Read More...

In today's blog post, learn how programmer writer, Eric Schmidt, uses Visual Basic code to pull data from text files in a shared folder and then add that data programmatically into an Excel workbook. ...( read more ) Read More...

Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP, who explains how to work with the SlicerCache object, and how customize buttons or change slicer properties by using VBA. For more information about slicers, read PivotTable Slicers on Jan Karel’s website: http://www.jkp-ads.com/ . Juggling the SlicerCaches collection For each slicer you add to your workbook, Excel adds a SlicerCache object too, which controls which pivot table(s) your slicer controls. So suppose we have three sheets, Sheet1, Sheet2...

  This blog post is brought to you by Dan Battagin a Lead Program Manager on the Excel team. OK, so I'm going to talk a bit about a relatively unknown feature in Excel: XML data import. It was introduced in Excel 2003, but we've done a pretty good job hiding it since Excel 2007 by putting it on the Developer tab of the Ribbon. I'm going to make the topic even a bit more geeky by using it in conjunction with VBA. In exchange, I'm going to produce, at the end, a nice little solution...

Today's author is Dennis Wallentin, XL-Dennis, of http://xldennis.wordpress.com/ A few weeks ago we posted a code example for creating a table of contents for your workbook. Dennis offers another approach with this code sample for creating a TOC with hyperlinks. Dennis’ code uses the PageSetup.Pages().Count property, introduced in Excel 2007, to calculate the number of pages on each sheet. In addition, the entries in the TOC link to their respective sheets to improve on-screen workbook navigation...

Today's author is MVP Bill Jelen of MrExcel.com . The following code example verifies that a sheet named "TOC" already exists. If it exists, the example updates the table of contents. Otherwise, the example creates a new TOC sheet at the beginning of the workbook. The name of each worksheet, along with the corresponding printed page numbers, is listed in the table of contents. To retrieve the page numbers the example opens the Print Preview dialog box. You must close the dialog box...

Thanks to Eric Patterson for writing this blog post. As promised in our Programmability Improvements in Excel 2010 , here are more details about the Excel 2010 improvements to aid in migrating Excel 4 Macros to VBA. Excel has a macro facility, known as Excel 4 macros (XLM for short) that was the primary macro language prior to the introduction of VBA in Excel 5.0. Most people have long since migrated their Excel 4 macros to VBA; however, some Excel 4 macro capabilities were missing from VBA, which...

Thanks to Christian Stich, the founder of Excel Services Consulting, L.L.C. , for putting together this post on the updated Excel Web Services API. The Excel Web Services API that initially shipped with Excel Services 2007 has been updated and expanded for Excel Services in SharePoint 2010. I will address the additions and changes for the Excel Web Services API for SharePoint 2010 in this post. Additional information about the Web Services API covering the 2007 implementation can be found in the...