What's New At The CPearson.com Excel Web Source http://www.cpearson.com/excel/MainPage.aspx en-us Copyright 2008 - 2011, Charles H. Pearson chip@cpearson.com chip@cpearson.com http://www.cpearson.com/images/RssPageLogo.png http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/MainPage.aspx What's new at the cpearson.com web site. Changing The Excel Application Icon http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/SetIcon.aspx Chip Pearson 2012-02-08T05:30:00 This page shows you how to change the icon on the main Excel window to your own custom icon. Read about 32-bit and 64-bit Excel http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Bitness.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-12-31T05:30:00 This page describes 64-bit Excel in contrast and comparison with 32-bit Excel. Exporting data to a fixed field length text file. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/ExportFixedWidth.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-09-03T05:30:00 This page describes code to export a worksheet range to a fixed field width text file. Importing Fixed Field Length Text Files To Excel http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/ImportingFixedWidth.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-09-02T05:30:00 This page describes how to import text from files that are fixed field length, as opposed to delimited files. Pausing Code Execution http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/WaitFunctions.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-07-09T05:30:00 This page describes several methods for pausing execution for a specified time or pausing execution until the user changes a cell. Workbook And Worksheet Names http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/FileFolderNames.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-06-06T05:30:00 This article describes worksheet formulas to return the sheet name, full name, file name, directory path and file extension of a workbook. Returning Errors From VBA User Defined Functions http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/ReturningErrors.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-03-28T05:30:00 This page describes how to use the CVErr function to return error values from a user defined function in VBA. Delimited Text In Worksheet Cells http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/DelimitedText.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-03-25T05:30:00 This page describes formulas for extracting data from delimited text strings in a worksheet cell. Common And Useful Date Functions. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/DateFunctions1.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-02-14T05:30:00 This page describes about 20 worksheet formulas and VBA functions related to working with dates. Creating lists of worksheet and workbook names on a worksheet. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/SheetNameFunctions.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-02-13T05:30:00 This page describes how to get a list of worksheet or workbook names on a worksheet range. Also covered is relative sheet addressing. Extracting Non-blank values for a range http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/VectorToMatrix.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-02-05T05:30:00 This page describes worksheet functions and VBA code to extract only non-blank cells from a range that contains both values and blank cells. Rows And Columns To Matrices http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/VectorToMatrix.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-01-31T05:30:00 This page describes formulas you can use to transform a row or column of data to a matrix. Printing Multiple Worksheets http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/PrintMultipleSheets.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-01-30T05:30:00 This page describes VBA code you can use to print multiple worksheets with a single line of code. ListBox Utilities http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/ListBoxUtils.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-01-20T05:30:00 This page describes about a dozen utility functions for working with ListBoxes on userforms. A Better Union Method http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/BetterUnion.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-01-12T05:30:00 The Union method has two problems. It errors out if one or more parameters in Nothing, and it double counts cells in overlapping range areas. This page has code to fix these problems. Character Tests On Strings http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/CharacterTests.aspx Chip Pearson 2011-01-08T05:30:00 This page describes a number of formulas you can use to examine and test the text contained in a cell. Content based banding with Conditional Formmating. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/ContentBanding.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-11-27T05:30:00 This page describes how to use formulas and Conditional Formatting to apply formatting based on when the value in a column changes. Summing The Diagonal Elements Of A Range http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/SumDiagonal.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-11-21T05:30:00 This page describes several formulas you can use to sum the diagonal elements of a range. Getting A List Of Enum Value Names http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/EnumNameList.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-10-10T05:30:00 This describes code to get a list of value names from an enum and put them in the Windows clipboard, suitable for use in a Select Case statement to validate the value of a variable. Last non-empty cell in a worksheet range. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/LastCell.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-08-20T05:30:00 This describes some VBA code to get the last non-empty cell in a range of worksheet cells. A Quick Directory Tree Listing http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/QuickTree.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-08-20T05:30:00 This page describes code to create a simple directory tree listing. While it has far fewer options that the FolderTree procedure, it is much easier to adapt for use in your own code. Getting A List Of Dictinct Elements In A Range http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/GetDistinct.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-08-9T05:30:00 This page describes code you can use to get a list of distinct elements from a range of values. Preventing Errors When A User Renames A Worksheet http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/RenameProblems.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-07-30T05:30:00 This page describes methods you can use in VBA code to prevent errors when a worksheet is reference by name in the code and the user changes the sheet name. Linked ListBoxes http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/LinkedListBoxes.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-07-19T05:30:00 This article describes how to link multiple listboxes in a manner such that changing the selected value in one list box will change the content list of linked, "downstream" listboxes. Getting the workbook associated with a VBProject. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/vbe.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-07-15T05:30:00 There is no direct way to get a reference to the workbook that is associated with a specific VBProject. This pages describes code to get the workbook from a VBProject. An Update Of The SplitEx Function http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Split.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-07-10T05:30:00 This new page replaces the old Split function page and shows VBA code to provide additional flexibility to VBA's Split function. Weighted Averages http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/WeighedAverage.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-06-09T05:30:00 This page describes weighted averages and formulas to calculate them. The Split Function -- A Better Way http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Split.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-04-20T05:30:00 The VBA Split function is a useful function for breaking a text string into an array of its constituent parts. However, it has problems if you need to keep a group of elements, such as a quoted string, together without splitting them apart. Another problems is that if you have two consequtive delimiters with no text between them, you will get empty elements in the result array. This page illustrates some VBA code that fixes these problems. Tracking Workbook Open And Close Operations http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/TrackingWorkbookOpens.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-04-10T05:30:00 This page describes event procedures you can use to track when and by whom a workbook is opened. While I generally don't like such snooping by the boss, security and audit concerns do have their place. Putting Full File Names In Window Captions http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/FullFileNameInWindowCaption.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-04-08T05:30:00 This page describes how to display the full file name, including drive and path information, in the caption of the main Excel application window and in the captions of the individual sheet windows. Where To Put The Code http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/WhereToPutTheCode.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-04-05T05:30:00 This page describes modules, procedures, and snippets and where to put and how to use the code that is provided on this web site and on other venues. Keeping Focus On The Worksheet When Showing A Form http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/SetFocus.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-03-18T05:30:00 When you show a form, input focus goes to the form. Using a few simple Windows API functions, you can keep focus on the worksheet rather than on the form. Creating Multiple SubDirectories http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/MakeDirMulti.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-02-12T05:30:00 VBA's MkDir function can create a subdirectory, but the parent directory must already exist. This can be cumberson when create deep levels of directories. This page shows how to create a subdirectory structure to any depth you need. New FindAll Function http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/FindAll.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-01-05T09:30:00 The existing FindAll functions, which finds all occurrences of a value in a range of cells, has been rewritten with options to allow text matching at the beginning or end of the text in the found cell. Cleanup Time http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Easter.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-12-14T09:30:00 It has been a period of cleaning up, revising, rewriting, and other such general housekeeping. Examples are clearer, a number of bug have been fixed, and the web site is now a bit better than before. Calculating The Date Of Easter http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Easter.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-9-30T09:30:00 This page describes how to calculate the date of Easter. Both a worksheet formula and a VBA function are shown.