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Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft.

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Pacman implemented in OOP VBA

What?, Why? I have been inspired by several other posts on the topic of OOP implementations in VBA to try and create a Pacman clone. I think this task is not all that hard in most languages; but, I ...
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Responding to Events of Dynamically added Controls

I was asked for an example of a class to wrap dynamically added controls as I suggested in this Answer. Although it is out of the context of a Code Review, I thought that it would make an interesting ...
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Web Battleship -The Unofficial Battleship UI

I've written my own UI for Mathieu Guindon's VBA Battleship (Battleship UI: GameSheet) which uses a webpage in a WebBrowser control for the View. Webform: Userform ...
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Bringing The System.Text.StringBuilder Up To Lightning Speed In The VBA

After having to swap the feature rich System.Text.StringBuilder for the very fast but very vanilla A lightning-fast StringBuilder, I decided it was time create a ...
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Shape Text Formatter Class a Builder Pattern

The preeminence is to have every method of the formatter return the formatter as a reference. This allows it to add and format text in chain. Such as: ...
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An over-the-top approach to data entry

My goal: to make the already easy task of filling out an excel sheet 1% easier by putting in hours and hours of effort. On a more serious note, I'm currently developing a system to manage inventory at ...
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IndexedArray Class: Uses a Dictionary Keys to Index a 2 Dimensional Array of Values

This class encapsulates a 2D Array and a Scripting Dictionary. Values are add or returned from to the Array using a Key and a ColumnIndex, e.g. ...
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safexl - A Python / pywin32 Excel Application wrapper

Thanks in advance for your interest in my first PyPI project. While there happen to be a number of projects out there to help with creating & consuming Excel workbooks, I was unable to find one ...
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Parsing Long Excel Report Files for Predefined Results

I work as an IT intern in a multinational and I was given a tedious task of combing through a 2500+ long multi-column excel report file in search of inactive servers. Here's a sample row from that ...
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Search for used Range.NumberFormats in Excel workbook

On an overly abused workbook we've hit the limit and NumberFormats can no longer be added. If we do want to add more we need to consolidate current formats. My code ...
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Multithreaded Excel + VBScript Timer: Snake Game Demo

Multithreaded Excel + VBScript Timer After reviewing these post: Snake in Excel in… VBA? and Drawing a snake using arrow keys in Excel using VBA, I decided to work on creating a VBA Timer. The ...
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Converting multiple excel files in multiple folders into CSV

The whole project is quite large, involving parsing the CSV-files, validating them, exporting them to a database and such, but my code in question involves subset of the project: converting multiple ...
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Scraper for parsing, downloading, and setting images beside each link in an Excel file

I've written a script in VBA which is able to parse image links from a website, download and store them in a local folder and finally set those images beside each link in an Excel file. As the script ...
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Sheet display in function of date and time on open and save (2)

Since I had to almost start all of the code again with first refactor and an eye opening advice on a random Overflow question, here it is again: This is a code that selects the right sheet according ...
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Excel Chart - Crosshair cursor lines with VBA

Submitting for expert review. I am trying to create a Chart - Crosshair cursor in excel chart sheet. Chart - Crosshair cursor lines are two lines (one horizontal and other vertical) moving along with ...
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Combine filtered or hidden cells

Purpose of the code: I have 3 Excel files to deal with. Those file have already been filtered or hidden because the content is very large. And I only need part of the content for every excel files. I ...
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Edit Excel through MS Access

I have an Access macro that runs AfterUpdate of a form. It opens an Excel workbook and edits a few cells. I have It working the way I want, but the problem is that ...
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Node JS | From Excel to Json

Intro -> I have to convert an excel file, which comes usually in this way: to a Json file that must looks like this: ...
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So what if the “View” in an MVC isn't a Userform, but is the Worksheet?

So I've been following the discussions around VBA as an OOP language and the applicability of various design patterns, such as MVP or MVC. Excellent postings on these topics are extremely informative ...
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Office CommandBarButton Icon Browser in the VBEditor

Frustrated with the solutions that I found online I decided to write my of Icon Browser. From the onset I decided that my Icon Browser should work from the VBEditor and not show any of the thousands ...
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Using Excel Cell StyleElements to Style HTML Document

CellStyleCSS class creates css based of Excel Workbook CellStyles. This class is used in conjunction with TagBuilder class, ...
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Taking time off of taking time off

In my ongoing quest to automate everything I have to do at my job, I've decided to learn how to do webscraping with VBA. I wanted to start with something easy, so the following simply fills out a ...
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Setting a forecast for 2,5k workers intraday for a whole month

I'm working on a large project that requires a ton of data to be processed. I was thinking that using classes would be the best way, and it is, until it has to dump out the memory at the end of every ...
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Looking for more efficient VBA to Move data from Teradata to Excel

I have a simple macro moving data from Teradata to Excel. The process normally takes me 10 minutes to perform manually, however the macro can run for hours sometimes. This is making the macro seems ...
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Speeding up a complex array function in excel

I have a complex array function that takes way too much time to calculate, which is why I'm looking for ways to make it more efficient. Basically, I have a transaction sheet in which I list all goods ...
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Rich data types - boolean object

Context You can probably skim most of this, it's unlikely to be useful for a review and is just for background info. Also download the files I've tried to create a ...
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Alternative for VLOOKUP/Index-Match in VBA

I am sharing this function I wrote with the community to provide an alternative to slow VLOOKUP and/or Index-...
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Copying content from Excel into PowerPoint as a picture, with error handling

The code below works, but I want to ask if my solution is adequate or if there's something I should structure differently. If it's alright, I'll apply the same code in other subs. My code copies ...
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Converting VBA Add-In to C# VSTO. Code following button click event

This is my first program with C# and VS and was originally a VBA Add-In I wrote. I have embarked on this as a learning exercise. The code does work and provides the desired output in a new workbook. ...
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Code runs slower when executed from ribbon compared to directly in module

We use third party addin that downloads market data from the internet into a workbook. The addin works with custom functions that begin with CompanyAddin. For instance, a formula in a cell could look ...
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Retrieving data in multiple formats from Excel with Python

Scenario: I have an excel file that contains some data in the first sheet. That data can be simple strings on a cell or CheckBoxes (marked or not). Data example: ...
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Document “Search Engine” in Excel

I've created a somewhat "Brute-force search engine" based on a document's filename, as well as an additional keyword that describes the said document. I had to make one as my company's resources are a ...
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CheckedRange Class

This class is used to make Excel Cells behave like Checkboxes. Clicking the cell raises a CheckedRange_Clicked(Target as Range) event and toggles it's value ...
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Excel VBA to download from IE Database Stops Responding

first time using Code Review, although I have been active on StackOverflow, hope I'm in the right place. I am putting together Excel VBA code that using information from various columns on a ...
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Comb Sort Multi-dimensional Array on Key

Previously: Comb Sort in VBA I've been running two different comb sorts (on arrays) depending on whether I want to sort numbers or strings and I figured I would give using ...
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Getters, constructors and eval

I'm trying to parse an object generated from an Excel file. The output lists each cell with its contents. If the cell is just a number then it remains a number but if the cell contains a formula (has ...
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Modeling data from Excel sheets to parse to Excel sheet

Background: I have close to 50 excel files - I cannot change the data source - and I steadily get more. My task is to make sense of all that data and, lo an behold, save that as another excel file (I ...
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VBA, Transferring of Data from one File to another

I have this code that: Clears my worksheet from row 12 and onward in Workbook A Opens a new file Workbook B Copys the sheet to my Workbook A. and Close Workbook B Renames sheet in Workbook A ...
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Create a distribution from .xlsx file using Java

I have an Excel file with 2 columns, names and numbers. I want to know for each name what is the probability for each number. I prefer to do it in Java so I would be able to combine it with the rest ...
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Extracting Excel cell format with Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel in C#

I am trying to fetch the format (e.g. background color, border settings) of each cell in Excel file with Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel class. I know that there are many tools could be used well in ...
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Generic function for interpolating missing values in power query

I have written a (relatively) generic function for interpolating values in power query (also useful for power bi and m code). I am looking for any improvements or input, but especially: speed handle ...
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Copying Data from multiple workbooks -> Into One Worksheet (continuous data)

I have a macro created by my predecessor that I run on a monthly basis. However, it does take a while to get through, and I would like to clean it up for efficiency please. It copies data from ...
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VBA Excel bulk data loop for few columns at once

Good afternoon, I have a set of working code, which works as a loop between values i = 0-90 step 0.25. It gives 360 combinations exactly. I used to do this loop separately column by column. It takes ...
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Optimizing the openpyxl program

Purpose of the code: Let's say I have 3 excel files to deal with. Those file have already been filtered or hidden because the content is very large. And I only need part of the content for every ...
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Resolve parent child hierarchy in Power Query M code with sorting columns

Based on this article And this question posted on the power bi forums Objectives: Resolve a hierarchy (parent - child relationship) in Power Query adding levels and their corresponding sorting ...
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E-Mail Automatisation Project with smtplib but did not use MIMEMultipart

The goal of the project is to automate sending the same e-mail to a list of people with the same text (except the salutation "Dear Name of Person") with an HTML signature and a PDF attachment. For ...
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Intersect Method Slows Down Code In Large Selection Of Cells

I have picture in certain cells. When I run following code (With Intersect Method) in smaller number of selected cells, it runs correctly but when the number of selected cells increase - say above ...
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VBA code to account for multiple users too heavy on save actions

I have a worksheet I use with a small handful of colleagues on a daily basis to share information with about orders we place. To make sure we always have the same up to date info we use a shared excel ...
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VBA Array Functions: insert element, remove element

An extension to array functions I am building for my snake game. This one allows you to remove / insert particular elements. https://github.com/Evanml2030/Excel-ArrayFunctions API CALLS ...
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VBA array functions: push, pop, shift, unshift

I want to write my snake game procedurally, using as much windows call as I can so as to practice. Looking into GetAsyncKeyState to capture keyboard inputs and play sound functions. Also making a ...

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