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, […]
Regular expressions are ubiquitous in the developer world. They are used to validate website input, search for word patterns in large strings/texts and for many other uses. In Excel, Regular Expressions (VBA RegEx or simply VBA Regex) are not much advertised. Most users are good with using simple LEFT, RIGHT, MID and FIND functions for […]
Ever wanted to calculate the distance between two addresses in Excel? I recently had the following issue: from a list of over approx. 50 administration offices across my city I wanted to find the one that is closest to my workplace. Of course open Google Maps and type each location one by one… and then choose the […]