Microsoft Excel does not have the built-in worksheet functions to calculate the cross product of two vectors. Therefore, some techniques are required to do the calculation — either by setting up your own formula in a worksheet or by creating a custom VBA function. The
Over the years, I have been asked this question many times: What is the difference between VB and VBA? I tried to answer in many ways, but, ultimately, I found this answer the easiest one for most people to understand quickly: With VB, you make
When we use VBA to automate Excel operations on data or tables, one of the most common things we want to do is to find the number of rows of data or the number of records, in a worksheet. In this article, we’ll go through
String manipulation is a crucial skill in VBA programming. The skill level of a VBA developer is often determined by how well he/she can manipulate string data. Excel is very strong in mathematics operations and comes with loads of built-in calculation functions. But text manipulation
With Application.OnTime, you can schedule a macro (a procedure) to run at a specific time in the future. This is especially useful for setting up scheduled tasks which you want your computer to kick-off while you’re away from your computer, such as night jobs. OnTime
The VBA Wait method is used to pause the execution of a macro, suspending all Microsoft Excel activities until a certain time is elapsed. Syntax Application.Wait(time) The function requires one mandatory parameter input of time, which is the time you want the macro to resume,
The art of Excel VBA programming is in the manipulation of properties of objects of Excel. The more skillfully you can play with these objects and properties, the more powerful the macros you can build. The number one object in Excel you have to process
In VBA, to test whether an expression is a number, the IsNumeric function can be used. Description The IsNumeric function evaluates whether the input expression is a number and returns a Boolean value (TRUE or FALSE). It returns True if the entire expression is a number; otherwise, it returns False. Syntax IsNumeric(expression) The
Overview VBA run-time error 91 is a common trappable error seen in VBA development. This error is triggered when you try to use an object variable (i.e. a variable which is of the “Object” type) that has no object (properly) assigned to it. This error
In Excel, text concatenation is a common task which can be accomplished easily with the CONCATENATE function or with the “&” operator. For example, to concatenate “AB”, “CD”, “EF”, we can use Excel formula: =CONCATENATE(“AB”,”CD”,”EF”) or =”AB” & “CD” & “EF” In this tutorial, we