Tables are one of the most powerful features of Excel. Controlling them using VBA provides a way to automate that power, which generates a double benefit 🙂 Excel likes to store data within tables. The basic structural rules, such as (a) headings must be unique (b) only one header row allowed, make tables compatible with … Read more
Named ranges are a useful feature of Excel. We often use them to build more complex tools that we may share with other users. Therefore, those named ranges become a critical part of our spreadsheet. Unfortunately, if those users modify or delete the named ranges, it may break the calculations. So, in this post, I … Read more
This week, while working on a project, I wanted to hide a worksheet in Excel. However, I didn’t want users to unhide it or even know it was there. I wanted to make the Excel sheets very hidden (i.e. invisible to other users). I’m sure many users know how to hide a sheet. However, most … Read more
I was on a call recently where somebody asked if it was possible to create a unique PDF for each item in a list. The answer is “Yes”, so in this post, I want to show you how to do it; how to create multiple PDFs based on a list in Excel. Table of Contents … Read more
When working with Excel, the worksheets order matters. The tabs should reflect the flow which a user can understand. Since there is no native feature to do it, using VBA to short sheets alphabetically can be a useful time-saver. But things are never as straightforward, are they? In this post, I will give you the … Read more
There is a common question that many Excel users ask: “How can I hide all sheets except one with a macro?”. So, let’s answer that very question. First, I’ll share with you the VBA to hide all sheets except one, and then the process to turn it into a reusable code block. Table of Contents … Read more
Pivot Tables are a key tool for many Excel users to analyze data. They are flexible and easy to use. Combine the power of Pivot Tables with the automation of VBA, and we can analyze data even faster. This post includes the essential code to control Pivot Tables with VBA. Table of Contents Refreshing Pivot … Read more
Looping through worksheets is one of the most common actions performed by those who use VBA to automate Excel. However, we don’t always want to apply a macro to every worksheet; sometimes, we only want it for each selected sheet. Depending on the action being performed, this can cause an error. This occurs where the … Read more
Office 365 subscribers now have Excel’s new calculation engine available to them, meaning lots of users suddenly have access to dynamic arrays. This got me thinking about whether VBA user-defined functions (UDFs) can make use of the new functionality too. I’m not an expert in this; I’m just sharing as much as I’ve learned to … Read more
Before I start, let me share a little secret with you… I really dislike VBA arrays. There just seem to be too many oddities in how they work. Compared with other programming languages, VBA seems to make arrays overly complicated. If you feel the same, then you’re in the right place. This post contains a … Read more