The VLookup function is an Excel function. It can be used directly on your worksheet without having to use any VBA code. However, there may be instances in VBA where you wish to also use VLookup functionality. You would then need to call the VLookup
The Instr function in VBA checks to see if a string is contained within another string. This can be useful when trying to extract information from strings of data contained in Excel cells, for example. Instr Syntax The Instr function is made up of 4
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 ReDim statement is used to declare the size of a Dynamic array in VBA. It can later be used to re-declare the size of the array as many times as you need. It can only be used for Dynamic VBA Arrays (where the size
Introduction Mod stands for Modulo. It is a mathematical operator that returns the remainder, or modulus, of a number after performing division. The Mod operator is not only helpful when you want to know the remainder in division, it is also powerful when you want
There may be a time in Excel that you need data that you are fetching from an Excel spreadsheet or importing from external data to be amended to upper case. This can, of course, be done manually, but if it is a large amount of
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
A VBA Variant is a VBA variable that has not been declared to have a specific data type. It can therefore hold any type of data that VBA variables are able to hold – be it text, numbers, dates, time or objects. Variants use more
An array is a type of variable which differs from a ‘normal’ variable in that it can hold multiple values rather than just one value at a time. There can be a few reasons why you would receive an “Expected array” error. Let’s look at