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  • Change built-in groups in the Ribbon

    Hi all It is not possible to add to or remove controls from built-in groups in the Ribbon. For example, the Format Painter button from the Home tab’s Clipboard group cannot be removed from this group. But there is a way around this restriction. We can hide a built-in group and then duplicate it...
    Posted to Daily Dose of Excel (Weblog) by Anonymous on Thu, Aug 7 2008
  • To Disable or Not To Disable, That Is the Question

    Joel Spolsky says don’t: Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you can’t complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that users don’t read message boxes. Anyway, I’m squarely...
    Posted to Daily Dose of Excel (Weblog) by Anonymous on Wed, Jul 2 2008
  • Showing An Array On A Form; Autosizing ColumnWidths Of A ListBox

    Hi all, For a project I needed a quick way to display the content of an array to the user. I didn’t want to use a worksheet, but opted for a userform. The data I wanted to show was contained in an array. The array contained something like: Description Before After Cell Errors 100 10 Corrupt Names...
    Posted to Daily Dose of Excel (Weblog) by Anonymous on Wed, May 14 2008
  • Number of simultaneous users?

    Hi, I want to share an Excel 2003 spreadsheet with 4,500 users. The users open the spreadsheet, enter their user id and get some information. I expect that this will be a one-time operation and lasts a few minutes per user. My plan is to save the spreadsheet as a template and share on a network drive...
    Posted to General (Forum) by hth123 on Sun, Apr 20 2008
  • Coding Business Logic

    One topic I have not seen much discussion on is how to transform business logic into an automated user-maintainable workbook. I've had to deal with similar situations in various settings, so I am sure it is a common problem, so I'm curious to see what other approaches exist. Two examples: A data...
    Posted to General (Forum) by zfraile on Thu, Jan 31 2008
  • Excel Styles and Views

    This is a great site. It reminds me of going from grade 8 to highschool. Grade 8, I was one of the big kids. The following year, I was one of the ??? At work, I'm the big grade 8'er. Here, just a kid. Does anyone bother with using Excel styles? I don't ever read anything about them, so either...
    Posted to General (Forum) by Omar on Mon, Jan 28 2008
  • Copy a customized QAT from one workbook to another (Add-in)

    Hi all I create a small Excel add-in to copy a customized QAT from one workbook to another. http://www.rondebruin.nl/imageqat.htm#QAT Because it not use very common code I like to hear from you if you have problems or if there are there better ways to do it ? I hope a few of you can test it for me....
    Posted to Daily Dose of Excel (Weblog) by Anonymous on Thu, Nov 29 2007
  • Customize the images of the buttons in the QAT

    Hi all I add a new page to my site with examples to change a button image of a button in the QAT for all workbooks or for one workbook. Making a QAT Add-in of the one workbook example seems a good way on this moment if you want to change the buttons images of your QAT. http://www.rondebruin.nl/imageqat...
    Posted to Daily Dose of Excel (Weblog) by Anonymous on Tue, Nov 20 2007
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