Maybe for some reason we want to change our Microsoft Excel Status Bar, then this simple vba function will do the work for us. The end result will look like this: Ok, to do it, put this following code in ThisWorkbook code Private Sub Workbook_Open() ‘when workbook opened, change the status bar Application.StatusBar = “Changing [...]

The purpose of the following example of Excel VBA macro is to get the acronym or an abbreviation of each of the first letter of any given words. Function Acronym(Words As Variant) As String Dim aWord() As String, ix As Integer aWord = Split(Words.Value, ” “) For ix = 0 To UBound(aWord) Acronym = Acronym [...]

Ever needed to find out the full path of your current file? What I mean by full path here is the full location of the active file including the directory path and full file name. If you did, then what you need is this following code: Application.ActiveWorkbook.FullName The one line code will return the full [...]

Usually in the sequential database system, we can SUM only unique values in table column by adding all the values from SELECT DISTINCT query result only. Based on the same principle, we can also create a simple VBA function in Microsoft Excel by adding the values only available in a collection of unique values we [...]

If you read my latest update on how we can get position of last row containing data, then most probably you already have a glimpse on how we perform the same task with last column containing data in Excel. The VBA code is the exact replica of the code to get the last row, only [...]

There is a time when we must create a set of Excel Worksheets templates on a regular basis in our work. For example, a set of Excel Worksheet for each month of the year or may be based on the type of work we should done in certain time base. Here a simple example of [...]

Do while … loop, do until … loop, do … loop while, do … loop until, and while … wend are the format of looping that we can use in Excel VBA. The main reason why we need to perform looping is to simplified a repeating tasks. Rather then manually calling a block of code [...]