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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Specifying UserForm Position on Screen

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Specifying UserForm Position on Screen You can automatically position your UserForm almost anywhere on your screen, with the following Initialize event code that goes into the UserForm’s module. Example 1, upper left Private Sub UserForm_Initialize() Me.StartUpPosition … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Comparing Two Lists and Formatting Differences

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Comparing Two Lists and Formatting Differences Here’s how you can format differences in a long list when comparing it to a shorter list. In the picture, column A holds a comprehensive list of names, and column … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Using a Comment to Log Changes in a Cell

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Using a Comment to Log Changes in a Cell Here’s an easy way to keep a running log of changes to a cell’s text. Suppose you want your employees to enter an explanation or description of … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Set Page Breaks For Specified Areas

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Set Page Breaks For Specified Areas If your worksheet has areas of data that you want to print on separate pages, you can easily establish page breaks based on a wide choice of cell properties or … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Keep a Running Count of Duplicate Entries

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Keep a Running Count of Duplicate Entries In cases where duplicate entries are expected, you can easily keep a running count of each entry with a formula to tell you how many times the entry exists … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: VBA Help — Usually Right, Sometimes Wrong

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: VBA Help — Usually Right, Sometimes Wrong The above picture shows a simple macro that calls a Message Box to display a tab name by referring to the active sheet’s CodeName property. Suppose you’ve never before … Continue reading

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Sad Loss in the Excel and Technical Community

Sad Loss in the Excel and Technical Community I’m writing this blog tonight with a heavy heart, as I just learned that Excel MVP and personal friend Nate Oliver has suddenly passed away. For those of you who did not … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Blinking Cells and Flashing Objects

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Blinking Cells and Flashing Objects Free and safe downloadable workbook with blink examples With VBA, you can make cells or their contents look as if they are blinking or flashing. This is not a popular tactic … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Automatically Show UPPER Case Text In Cells

Automatically Show UPPER Case Text In Cells If you want to make sure that text entries in lower case — even alphanumeric entries — will automatically be displayed in UPPER case as soon as the entry is made, here’s how … Continue reading

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