The space character for an Excel user can be a real problem. When exporting data from various IT systems, that export will often include extra spaces around values. Finding a way to remove spaces in Excel is a crucial skill for every user. We often can’t see the space characters, but Excel sees them. They … Read more
With macros, we can automate Excel and save time; big tasks or small tasks, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that we’ve become more efficient. In this post, I share 30 of the most useful VBA codes for Excel that you can use today. If you’ve never used VBA before, that’s fine. Part 1 … Read more
I often find myself converting between different formats of color codes; especially from hex to RGB and back again. Rather than firing up Google and searching for color conversion tools online, I decided to write my own User Defined Functions in Excel, now I can calculate the result within a worksheet instead. The functions in this … Read more
When writing VBA macros, the concept of Private or Public is important. It defines how VBA code within one module can interact with VBA code in another module. This concept applies to both Private Subs and Private Functions. As a simple analogy – on social media, you can set parts of your profile so that everybody … Read more
Protecting and unprotecting sheets is a common action for an Excel user. There is nothing worse than when somebody, who doesn’t know what they’re doing, overtypes essential formulas and cell values. It’s even worse when that person happens to be us; all it takes is one accidental keypress, and suddenly the entire worksheet is filled with … Read more
Since Excel 2010, it has been possible to save Excel as PDF. The PDF format was then and continues to be, one of the most common file formats for distributing documents. The code examples below provide the VBA macros to automate the creation of PDFs from Excel using the ExportAsFixedFormat method. This means you do not … Read more
This post looks at how to loop through all items in a Data Validation list with VBA. This was inspired by a question from a reader. He wanted to save a PDF for each item in a Data Validation list. However, once we master the looping process, we are not restricted to PDFs; we can … Read more
Automating processes with VBA can involve copying, moving, deleting and managing lots of files. Thankfully, VBA has many built-in functions to undertake these tasks for us. These files do not necessarily need to be Excel workbooks; they can be any file type. Table of Contents Check if a file exists Rename a file Moving a … Read more
While it is not often that we have to control pictures or images within Excel, based on the number of Google searches for this topic, it’s clearly something people want to know more about. This post serves as a reference to cover most of the scenarios we’re likely to encounter to copy, insert, move, delete … Read more
Listing filenames in a worksheet, printing all the files to PDF, or making changes to every file in a folder, there are many reasons why we may want to loop through files in a folder. VBA provides us with a few ways to achieve it (1) Dir function (2) File System Object. Let’s briefly look … Read more