After my last post on debugging VBA I received a few comments with other tips or commands people use for debugging. I’m going to have a look at these here. Option Explicit The first thing is using the Option Explicit statement. There are a number of Options you can use in VBA, and Option Explicit […]

When you write VBA, or any programming language, you are going to encounter errors in it, or should we call them unintended features? Basically you can’t write any substantial amount of code without needing to fix errors and make sure that it works as it’s supposed to.

Any user of Excel will have used its functions.  From the humble SUM to VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH, OFFSET and myriad others. Excel also allows you to create your own functions, these are known as user defined functions, or UDF’s. By creating a UDF you can expand the functionality of Excel and get it to […]

Following on from Mynda's post last week on Dependent Data Validation, I've written a little VBA that enhances the functionality. What this code does is to clear any cells dependent on the value of another data validation list. I'll call these downstream cells. So if I change the Country, I'm going to clear the values […]

In my previous blog post I created a progress bar using a userform. We can use this progress bar to communicate to our Excel user that our VBA code is still running. In this post I’m going to look at using the Status Bar to do the same thing, and create something like this. Status […]

If your code runs for any noticeable amount of time, you might find that using some sort of visual feedback is useful for your users. Letting them know just how long something will take to complete, and just as importantly, letting them know that Excel hasn’t hung, reassures them that the code is working and […]

If VBA can’t execute a statement (command) then a run-time error occurs. By default Excel deals with these, so when a run-time error occurs, you’ll see a default error message like this: But you can change this and instruct Excel to allow your code to deal with run-time errors. NOTE : I’m going to use […]

In a previous post I looked at using the FileSystemObject to search through folders on your computer’s disk and create a hyperlinked list of files. Clicking on the hyperlink would open the file. FileSystemObject (FSO) can also be used to retrieve meta data from a file, like the creation date, last modified date or file […]