Often in VBA we need to ask the users to select files or directories before we execute the actual functionality of our macro. Welcome to the VBA Open file dialog post. Today we will learn how to use the Application.FileDialog, to understand the various msoFileDialogFilePicker file dialog picking options and how to properly manage these […]
Today we are going to learn about VBA Worksheets. We will cover all the nuisances e.g. VBA Activesheet and how it compares to regular Worksheets, how to Select Worksheets, how to Activate Worksheets, Selecting vs Activating Worksheets… and everything else you need to know about the VBA Worksheet in general. ThisWorkbook vs ActiveWorkbook Some Excel […]
The Excel WEBSERVICE and Excel FILTERXML Worksheet functions can be used to pull Internet data from a URL into a cell in a Excel spreadsheet. While the first pulls raw HTML data the second allows you to filter XML formats. Excel up till now has been mostly an offline application. Although, you can use VBA, […]
Visual Basic for Applications (abbrv. VBA) is often misused causing issues with maintaining code, backward compatibility with older Excel version and other issues. Reason being is often that some of us don’t know, or better still, don’t make the minimal effort to learn ready available tools in Excel or other Office applications. From time to […]
The Excel VBA Option Explicit statement is such useful feature in Excel VBA, it is strange, this is the first time I am writing a post about it. It proves incredibly useful in preventing typos and other stupid mistakes when developing Visual Basic for Applications macros. But what does it actually do? What does Option […]