Today’s post will touch on something most analysts and VBA developers might find useful: downloading files using vba from the Web (VBA Download). Excel VBA again proves to be a versatile tool for Analytics – in this case for extracting and storing data. Downloading files can be a useful way to save data extracted from […]
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Word VBA Tutorial
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 […]
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 […]
Like VBA? You will love HTA! (HTA example using VBS)
Comfortable with VBA? Your clients/users need VBA solutions but want them to be lightweight GUI, not cumbersome Excel Workbooks with Macro restrictions? Well why not try HTML Application (HTA)? What’s HTA? It’s a simple HTML application embedded with Visual Basic script or Javascript, or even both if needed! Don’t see the opportunities yet? Imagine a […]
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 […]