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Automate Building A Table Of Contents For Your Spreadsheet With VBA

Managing Large WorkbooksI've been working with a bunch of rather large Excel workbooks lately and it has come to the point where it is more efficient to navigate through a table of contents page...

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How To Repeat Tasks With Your VBA Code by Looping

Your Complete Looping GuideLooping is extremely important when coding because it can shorten up the length of your code tremendously.  It's kind of like having a macro inside your macro since it...

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Best Way To Paste Special Excel Objects As PowerPoint Images

Quality MattersI've written many times in the past on how the quality and formatting of your work can separate you from the rest of the pack when creating presentations. Our cultural is becoming more...

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How to Install and Uninstall A VBA Add-in File For Microsoft Office

Installing Your Add-inSo you just purchased a shiny, brand-new add-in program to take your Office capabilities to the next level. The only problem is, there isn't an executable installer to put it on...

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5 Ways to Create A Dynamic Auto-Adjusting VBA Range

Dynamic Code Is Vital!A huge turning point for me when I was teaching myself how to write VBA was being able to create dynamic code. This meant I didn't have to go into my macros and change range...

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The VBA Guide To Sending Excel Attachments Through Outlook

Quickly Emailing Your SpreadsheetsI absolutely love using the Email As Attachment functionality provided by Excel. It's great for quickly sending one-off data requests to someone throughout the day....

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Online Excel & VBA Resources

Your Excel Resource GuideI'm sure every Excel blog out there has some sort of directory page with recommendations of other great resources and it's about time this blog puts one together. Feel free to...

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Easy Step-By-Step Instructions To Create Your First Excel Ribbon Add-in

One of the most prosperous skills I have picked up over the years as a financial analyst has been the ability to create custom Excel add-ins specific to my department and company's needs. This one...

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The VBA Guide To Interacting With Text (.Txt) Files

Why Text Files?Text files can be a very fast and simple way to read and store information. I like to use them to save settings for my VBA add-ins and I have seen situations where databases have...

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Using Cell Formatting Logic With Excel Formulas

Wishful Thinking? Have you ever had a time where you wished you could write an IF formula in Excel based on whether or not a cell was filled with the color green or not? Unfortunately, Excel doesn't...

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How To Trigger Your VBA Macros To Run Based On A Specific Cell Value Change

Today we are going to discuss how you can automatically make your VBA code execute based on a specific cell value being changed. Behind the scenes, Excel keeps track of specific events that occur...

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Create A Bar Chart With Separate Positive And Negative Colors

Our goal as analysts is to tell a story with our data and it is a well-known fact that data can be consumed much faster through visualization than through text. That is why it is vital that we put...

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Masking (Hiding) A Password As It Is Entered In An Excel Text Box

Today, I came across a spreadsheet that allowed a user to connect to a remote database via VBA. The spreadsheet had a nifty little interface allowing you to enter your username and password for access...

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Wingdings & Webdings Font Icon Character Map (Printable Cheat Sheet)

All The Icons For The Wingdings and Webdings FontsHere is a list of all the icons (by character) for:Webdings fontWingdings fontWingdings 2 fontWingdings 3 fontYou can click on the below summary to...

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How To Get Office 2016 With A 365 ProPlus Account

A Little BackgroundI was literally pulling out my hair trying to figure out how to get my hands on the new Office 2016 for my PC. I personally have an Office 365 ProPlus account and could not...

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Excel Weaknesses: A Wishlist For Much Needed Improvements

As Microsoft continues to persuade people to sign up for their Office 365 subscription in lieu of purchasing individual copies of Office, I am hoping that the Office team moves towards sending out...

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Adding Bullet Points To Your Excel Spreadsheet Cells & Text Boxes

I've been using bullet points inside Excel A LOT as of late and I thought I would share the many different ways you can insert those nifty little bullets. I have mainly been inserting bullet points...

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Shortcut To Switch Back And Forth Between Two Excel Worksheet Tabs

Is There An ALT-TAB Excel Equivalent?One of my all-time favorite keyboard shortcuts is ALT + TAB. This simple keyboard combination lets you toggle back and forth between the current program window and...

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The VBA Guide To Named Ranges

What Is A Named Range?Creating a named range allows you to refer to a cell or group of cells with a custom name instead of the usual column/row reference. The HUGE benefit to using Named Ranges is it...

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Christmas Expense & Budget Tracker Excel Template 2015 (Free!)

It's That Time Of Year Again!If you love analyzing numbers (and chances are if you are a fan of this website you do), then I am sure you can relate that your skill of tracking digits carries over to...

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