Imagine this condition; We are in the middle of doing something using Excel VBA macro, then we want the macro to automatically show the File Open dialog box to make us (user) able to choose another Excel file to be opened by Excel. Got the picture? Below is vba procedure that do exactly like that, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I once asked by Joshuacht about how to make a macro running every 15 minutes. Let say because every 15 minutes we have to refresh or reload the data in the Workbook. Below is a sample of how we can do this in Microsoft Excel *just an outline*. The logic is simple, when we open [...]
In my case, I work a lot with transferring data from current Excel Workbook to another Excel Workbook, and to be able to do that, of course I need to make sure whether the destination Workbook is already open or not. The following excel vba function assigned to check whether a workbook we need is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]