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Suppose you want to send someone a demo workbook, but you don’t want that workbook to be used more than a certain number of times, perhaps because you want to be paid for your work. In today's VBA tip, Excel MVP Bob Umlas shows you how to limit the number of times a file can be used by using...
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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...
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Today’s author is Mike Alexander, a Microsoft Excel MVP who shows us how to run a Stored Procedure to get data from a SQL server. For more information, visit www.datapigtechnologies.com . So summer is for practically over and I'm back to blogging topics that can actually help people...
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This week’s post is written by Amy Miller. Amy is a writer for Office.com. She’s written and edited content for Excel, Access, OneNote, and InfoPath. Imagine you’re working in a spreadsheet and you innocently press the arrow keys on your keyboard to move to another cell, but instead of...
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Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP, who describes the process of importing text in great detail. You can find more useful tips from Jan Karel on his website: http://www.jkp-ads.com/ . In this article, I'll explain how to ease importing of .txt, .prn and/or .csv files into an existing...
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Today’s author is Greg Truby, an Excel MVP, who addresses some common issues you may encounter when you use the VLOOKUP function. This article assumes a basic familiarity with the VLOOKUP() function, one of the easiest ways to lookup up a key value in one worksheet or block of data and return a related...
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Today’s author is Mike Alexander, an Excel MVP who shows us how to run a Stored Procedure to get data from a SQL server. For more useful articles and videos, visit www.datapigtechnologies.com . We all know we can use MS Query to get data from a SQL server. Typically though, we pull from a Table or a...
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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...
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Today's author is MVP Bill Jelen of MrExcel.com . The following code example takes a list of addresses arranged as one address per row, and copies them onto another sheet, arranging them to fit on printable address labels. The workbook must contain two sheets, one named "Addresses" and...
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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...
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Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP. In this article, he shows the different locations of the form controls in Excel. You can find additional details on how to use these controls on his web site: http://www.jkp-ads.com/articles/controls.asp . Excel 2007 and 2010 In Excel 2007 and 2010...
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Today’s contributor is Sarah Hothersall, Liaison Director at Lyquidity. She’s providing information about the Workbook Statistics add-in, a free tool for Excel users that was created by Sandy Marshall, a Product Manager at Lyquidity, who is in charge of development of ComplyXL for enterprise spreadsheet...
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Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP. You can find more useful tips from Jan Karel on his website: http://www.jkp-ads.com/ . This post informs you about Name Manager, a free utility that helps you manage defined names in your workbooks. As a fulltime developer I oftentimes open files containing...
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Today’s author is Daniel Wiesenfeld, an Excel and Access Power User who is sharing his Extreme Lookup Collection with us so we can use the Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) he created to enhance the lookup functionality. His web site daanalytics.com is currently under construction and should be available...
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Today’s author is Reinout Dorreboom from the Netherlands, a Technical Consultant at Getronics, where he has worked with Office applications for many years, and where his Microsoft Certified Training skills enabled him to help other people get up to speed with Excel. In Excel 2007 (and earlier), it’s...