Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. NigelHarper

    Registering a file to the Excel VBA Reference Library

    I have been searching for a way of somehow loading/registering a DLL file to the Excel VBA Reference Library through a VBA routine. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Somewhere out there is a Rocket Scientist who must have the answer. Much appreciated and thanks. Nigel
  2. NigelHarper

    255 Character Limit

    If I try to output the statement: ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Cells.SpecialCells(xlFormulas, 23).DirectPrecedents.Address ...to a range on a sheet; if there are a lot of formulas and precedents I only ever get the first 255 characters. Why is this and how can I get the whole lot with out...
  3. NigelHarper

    Built-in Number Format list

    Anyone know how to build a list of built-in number formats in a workbook and not just those that are being used? Thanks.
  4. NigelHarper

    excel 2000

    Andreas, This could be done with code but over the years I have learned that the quickest and simplest way, once you've done it a couple of time is the following. Replace all the "=" with "#=" to turn the formulae into text and then create a copy of the sheet and in the...
  5. NigelHarper

    Find and underline specific words in a column

    Greyhound1 The only way to do this is via VBA. Say you have a workbook with two sheets in. One is called "DataSheet" which holds your cells containing the text where you want to hunt down words and underline them, and the other is "ListofWords" which contains cells holding...
  6. NigelHarper

    Is there a way to show the calculation complete percentage...

    ...that I see on the status bar when Excel is calculating and display it instead on a form via a progress bar that updates in real-time and then disappears once calculation is complete?
  7. NigelHarper

    Excel Reinstalling on ever start up?

    What OS are you using? Could it be that Office was installed when a different account was logged on and so although the machine side is available, the user side appears to be missing so that it is prompting you for the install CD? How about just reinstalling while logged on as yourself?
  8. NigelHarper

    Excel Chart Challenge

    If you have a fixed period probably the simplest way to do this is to create a series of rectangles whose width is prorata'd according to the season against the total period and arrange them accordingly. Group them and then save as a export to a jpg format. Then just format the chart area...
  9. NigelHarper

    How can I obtain the address of a cell I am leaving.

    I am trying to tell excel to go back to where it cam from and then get the row and column values and go to another worksheet and only calculate a range based on those row and column values of the original cell.
  10. NigelHarper

    How can I obtain the address of the cell I am leaving?

    If I am in cell A10 in a sheet and move to an adjacent cell either by arrow keys, return key, tab key or by selecting another non-adjacent cell with my mouse; how do I pass the address of the cell I am leaving on to a variable. Many events seem to only look at the target cell but is there one I...
  11. NigelHarper

    How can I obtain the address of a cell I am leaving.

    If I am in cell A10 in a sheet and move to an adjacent cell either by arrow keys, return key, tab key or by selecting another non-adjacent cell with my mouse; how do I pass the address of the cell I am leaving on to a variable. Many events seem to only look at the target cell but is there one I...
  12. NigelHarper

    Determining if a sheet/chart has changed.

    After any change to a sheet or a chart what VBA method may be used to determine if any change has been made to said sheet or chart in order to call a routine?
  13. NigelHarper

    Looping through files in a folder...

    I have a folder that contains various file types. From Excel I want to be able to loop through the folder opening only txt files and importing their contents to a workbook. How do I do the looping through the folder looking for only the txt files bit?

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top