In this post I will explain various ways to reduce Excel file size. Large Excel files slow down your system, increase the likelihood of the file crashing as well as obviously use more drive space. Microsoft Excel was designed to be a tool for managing relatively small datasets for Finance & Accounting purposes, today we […]
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VBA Delete File – Deleting files using VBA
To delete a file using VBA you need to use the VBA Kill Function. The problem with the VBA Kill function however is that it will not check whether the file exists in the first place, and instead will throw and error. Other VBA File resources VBA File Functions VBA Reading Files VBA Writing Files […]
VBA FileDialog – Opening, Selecting and Saving files and folders
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 […]
Merge Excel files – How to merge multiple Excel files
Having your data spread across multiple Excel files? Want to merge Excel files into a single Excel Workbook? Today we going to explore just that – how to merge multiple Excel Workbook spreadsheets into a single Workbook. The obvious tool for this task is Visual Basic for Applications so let us jump right in. Want […]
Convert CSV to Excel – How to open CSV and save as Excel
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 […]