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Pop up the Excel Statusbar?

I'm developing an application for excel that takes a long time to run so it would be nice to have a progress bar pop up and give some indication of the progress. I was looking at the Statusbar ...
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4answers
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Excel: the Incredible Shrinking and Expanding Controls

Occasionally, I'll happen across a spreadsheet which suffers from magic buttons or listboxes which get bigger or smaller over time. Nothing in the code is instructing this. Has anybody else ...
4
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1answer
592 views

Incorrect value when counting cells in different versions of Excel

I have seen some SO users run into an issue when trying to use some variation of Cells.Count; the VBA code throws an overflow error in some cases. For reference, see comments on this answer: I ...
3
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2answers
122 views

VBA macro to mass update multiple files in same location

Very new to this so please help. Im trying to mass update files in a static folder location, many files in one folder. What i want to do is run VBA macro in Excel 2010 to goto a network location ...
4
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2answers
760 views

Substring colouring from Excel VBA: why do some obvious methods not work?

I've been building some interesting visualizations that rely on VBA code's ability to set different colours for substrings in Excel. For a cell containing a string the sytax works like this ...
9
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3answers
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VBA error 1004 - select method of range class failed

First time poster, so if there is any formatting, or guidelines I failed to adhere to, please let me know so that I can fix it. So I am basically asking the user for the file directory of the excel ...
2
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1answer
67 views

Pivottable woes

It seems like all of the examples from other people are just like what I already have in my code. But in my case, nothing resolves the problem. So here is the complete code along with a break to show ...
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2answers
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Scripting in Excel — Highlighting like values

I am trying to create a macro that will basically highlight like values in column A the same color and alternate between a blue and white coloring. Therefore, exact values are grouped together by ...
1
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1answer
445 views

Execl VBA: Any tips and/or suggestions for migrating from MSSOAPLib to MSXML2?

I am migrating some spreadsheets from Excel 2003/WinXP to Excel 2010/Win7. Some spreadsheets use the MS SOAP toolkit to retrieve data. MS drops the support of SOAP toolkit in Excel 2010. I am forced ...
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1answer
270 views

How to edit info in cells displayed via macro code in Excel?

I have a macro so that when you highlight a row on sheet1, the macro takes all the info from this row and displays this by itself on sheet2. If you highlight a different row on sheet1, the info on ...
0
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1answer
91 views

how to keep the first cell always active in excel using vba

How to keep the first cell always active when opening the excel sheet. Can any one guide me to how to this. This is my code: Private Sub Send_Click() Dim strURL As String ...
6
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3answers
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Copy an entire worksheet to a new worksheet in Excel 2010

I have found similar questions that deal with copying an entire worksheet in one workbook and pasting it to another workbook, but I am interested in simply copying an entire worksheet and pasting it ...
2
votes
2answers
419 views

Regex match in VBA (Excel) [closed]

I am trying to write a function for excel 2010 that will take a line of HTML and return the link address ("http://www.google.com" in the example). Every lines follows this exact pattern: <a ...
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2answers
53 views

Excel 2010 VBA - Map column data?

I have a sheet like this: | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ... --------------------------------- | a | 1 | | b | 2 | | c | 7 | --------------------------------- | b | 2 | | c | 8 | | b | 4 | ...
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1answer
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Can I use VBA in Excel 2010 Starter Edition?

I have the MS-Excel 2010 "Starter Edition" - it comes bundled into pre-built PCs. Does this edition support VBA macros? I cannot tell. I searched and I am still not clear on this.

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