Let say we want to distinguish between ordinary cells and cells with formula in it, so we give a special background color to the cells with formula. For doing it manually is time consuming, especially on Excel Worksheet with large of cells with formula in it (usually a very complex worksheet). The following vba macro [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Excel VBA/Macro example below will extract comment from every cells with comment, and put the summary in the cell selected by user using Excel input box (read more about how to get cell reference using input box here). Sub CreateCommentsSummary() Dim rgComments As Range, rgCell As Range, rgOutput As Range, iRow As Integer, iCol As [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]