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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Reading the Registry for Your Email Client

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Reading the Registry for Your Email Client Here’s a macro that reads your Registry and tells you the name of your email client. My email client is Microsoft Outlook. When I run this macro, this is … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Adding a Cost Increase On Entry

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Adding a Cost Increase On Entry With a WorksheetChange event you can enter a number in a cell, and do an immediate calculation upon entry of that number to display a more meaningful number. Suppose you … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Inserting an Empty Row Between Each Change in Value

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Inserting an Empty Row Between Each Change in Value Here’s how you can insert a row between changes in items in your table range. In the picture, you prefer your data to be sorted by Client … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Case Sensitive LOOKUP

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Case Sensitive LOOKUP Here’s how you can attack a lookup action for a unique list of items, when the only difference among the characters in the list is their upper or lower case. The criteria item … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Sorting Birthdays, Excluding the Year

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Sorting Birthdays, Excluding the Year Companies and organizations often keep a list of their members’ birth dates, for purposes of sending out birthday greetings or managing employees’ birthdays with a complimentary day off work. As the … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Hyperlinking a CommandButton to the Internet

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Hyperlinking a CommandButton to the Internet When you have an ActiveX CommandButton on a UserForm or embedded onto your worksheet, the FollowHyperlink method can take you to your favorite website. In the above picture, the green … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Populating and Sorting Unique Items in a ListBox or ComboBox

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Populating and Sorting Unique Items in a ListBox or ComboBox There are times when you need to populate a ListBox or ComboBox with unique items from a dynamic range containing many repeated items. You’ll also want … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Summing Numbers When Combined With Text

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Summing Numbers When Combined With Text Because you are reading this, chances are you’re the go-to person in your workplace who’s counted on to work miracles in Excel. In the picture, an ill-advised data entry practice … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Positioning Your InputBox

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Positioning Your InputBox For times when you want to show an InputBox other than at its default center-of-screen location, here’s an example of positioning your InputBox near the upper left corner of your screen. Sub InputBoxPositionTopLeft() … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Filtering Dates

Tom’s Tutorials For Excel: Filtering Dates When it comes to filtering dates, a little VBA goes a long way in dealing with the nemesis of seemingly countless different formats a date can be represented in Excel. In the picture, an … Continue reading

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