Some time we want to hide a certain Excel Worksheet from view, and it’s a common practice to use select the Worksheet, go to menu Format > Sheet > Hide. Using the method explained above is right, but unfortunately, others people can easily unhide the Worksheet using the same method, only this time, instead of [...]

UPDATE June 13, 2008: Another alternative way to find the last row with data : Function LastRow() As Long Dim ix As Long ix = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Row – 1 + ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count LastRow = ix End Function I did a simple test, and the function will return the correct last row position even when the data was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With the simple Excel macro below, we can make all cells in active Worksheet that contains Error value in it, like #NULL, #Div/0!, #VALUE!, #Ref, #NAME?, #NUM!, And #N/A, will automatically having cell format that different/stand out among all other cells. In this example, background color of the cell that contains the error value will [...]

Auto run macro excel… Do you want to run an excel macros automatically when the file is open or close? Microsoft Excel provide us the opportunity to run a macro automatically every time we open or close the excel workbook file, using the event Workbook_Open and Workbook_BeforeClose. In the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor page, in the ThisWorkbook module, [...]

Sometimes in Excel, we need to find the row position of a particular text, maybe to be able to paste certain of data right below the corresponding text or else. Very useful if we have an Excel Worksheet Template that we use a lot, with fix header on it. ‘ Input param: Text we want [...]