A VBA Progress Bar can be used to manage your users anxiety about the execution time of your VBA Macro. Sometimes there are very large and complex solutions built in Excel (which is a mistake mind you), where calculations or macro executions can take minutes or even hours. This causes many issues, especially for the […]
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Excel Scrape html by element id, name or… any regex!
Sometimes I have a need to quickly scrape some data from website to be able to work on them and update their values when needed e.g. stock prices, temperature, search results, statistics etc. From time to time I stumble upon similar issues. Below find 2 quick UDF functions (user defined functions) that you can use […]
Excel Google Charts Tool
I always wanted to utilize the beautiful and interactive Google Charts in Excel. The Google Charts repository is constantly growing and sometimes Excel lacks those features. Hence I introduce the Excel Google Charts Tool to display a way to leverage some of those Google Charts directly in Excel. The WebBrowser control is no longer supported […]
Using SQL in VBA on Excel. Run SELECT Queries from VBA
Many times I was irritated of the lack of some Excel functionality (or just I don’t know there is) to easily transform data w/o using pivot tables. SQL in VBA was the only thing that was missing for me. Distinct, grouping rows of Excel data, running multiple selects etc. Some time agon when I had […]
Excel Google Translate functionality
Translations are not a fascinating task for me. I once received a request to help out a colleague in translating an Excel file to English. Copy to Google Translate, translate, copy back to Excel and again… After going through part of the file we quickly extrapolated that the whole translation would take at least a […]