CSV files are commonplace nowadays. Hence knowing how to convert CSV to Excel is a useful skill. CSV files are especially useful when wanting to save a table worth of data in a simple to read format. CSVs are also easy files to create and read from – as they are basically text files with […]
Often we think about beginnings not endings. It is only when we get somewhere it is when we realize we hadn’t thought through our destination. Same goes for writing VBA macros. Fortunately the VBA End statement is here to save the day and help us put that full-stop in the right place. Today I want […]
Strings are not easy to manipulate and often we need to create a Excel Substring or VBA Substring. Excel and VBA in fact have multiple functions that support obtaining substrings. VBA Strings Manipulations Resources VBA SubString VBA InStr / InStrRev VBA Like Operator (Wildcards) VBA Regex VBA String Functions Excel vs VBA Substring functions In […]
The VBA Like operator is something so useful I am often surprised how rarely it is used in Excel and Access VBA. I often tend to see the Like operator as the last resort before using Regular Expressions in VBA. It replaces greatly the VBA InStr function when needing to check if a certain substring […]
Working in multinational organisations many of us struggle with ad-hoc translations of Word documents or Excel spreadsheets. Translations are a boring task. Usually what most of us have mastered is a simple process of copying texts from documents to Google Translate and back. If you have my VBA Time Saver AddIn you probably already have […]