Welcome to the Word VBA Tutorial. VBA is a great tool not only to be leveraged in MS Excel. Often it is worth to save some time doing repeatable tasks by adopting some VBA macros in Word or PowerPoint too. Today I wanted to focus a little bit on starting you off in Word VBA […]
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How to Split Cells in Excel. How to Split Excel Columns.
The easiest way on how to split Cells in Excel or split Columns in Excel, is to select the column you want to split. Next go to the Data ribbon and hover to the Data Tools group. Next Select Text to Columns and proceed according to the instructions. The above works for simple splits on […]
Multithreaded browser automation (VBA Web Scraping)
Web Scraping is very useful for getting the information you need directly off websites. Sometimes however simple browser automation is not enough in terms of performance. Having created both the IE and Parallel classes I decided to jump an opportunity of creating a simple example of how mulithreaded browser automation can be achieved. Daniel Ferry […]
Simple class for browser automation in VBA
Web browser automation (using Microsoft’s Web Browser) is not an easy task in VBA when doing some Web Scraping. Excel is certainly a great tool for building your web automation scripts but at every corner you find some obstacles. For me the most challenging was always the nondeterministic state of the IE browser control whenever […]
Guide to Improving VBA Performance. Faster Excel VBA
There are many different articles and post on improving Excel performance. What I personally was missing was a simple, comprehensive, short overview of how the performance of VBA macros can be improved without needing to read through long articles on how the Excel compiler works. That is why I gathered all VBA performance guidelines into […]