Have you ever needed to get data over the Internet into your VBA program? * Maybe your automation process require that your VBA application update another system using Internet protocols? * Today we explore and demonstrate how to integrate Internet-based systems with your VBA program

Why Internet with Excel VBA?

I remember back in the 1990’s, the biggest question in the corporate IT scene was: Will the Internet ever be of value to businesses and penetrate the holy sanctuary of the LAN?

How things become absurd with time, just like the law stating that it’s illegal for a woman to...

Send any SQL statement for execution by a remote Database Server from your VBA program * DDL statements allow you to create and alter the schema from your program * Today we write a generic VBA function for adding a column to a table in the Database

This Blog post continues the current series dealing with building robust business applications with Excel VBA and MySQL Database.

If you have not read the previous posts about preparing MySQL Server and Excel for communications and connecting and sending SQL Select statements, read them first.

What are DDL and DML statements?

In the Databases...

When preparing a dynamic report in Excel, you need to arrange the data in the report structure. In this Blog post I demonstrate how to clear the report range and re-populate it with data.

Types of reports

Reports can take many forms, as far as presenting data is concerned.

A report is any artifact created from data for end use, or as required by another system as input.

A report can be a single page summarizing information about something (see the certificate example of last week’s Blog post), it can be an order for an employee to do something (such as in a production order) and it...

Do you need to generate Excel reports based on a template on a regular basis? Do you need to copy the template Worksheet to another Workbook, or from another Workbook? Here are some approaches with VBA code

Possible use cases for Excel templates

• Your monthly report is based on an Excel Worksheet you prepared, and each month needs to be stored as a separate Workbook with its specific calculations for the month.
• You are preparing and sending your customers a standard letter with calculations / charts that are changing every time. Maybe a quote, or a model calculation. You want to send them...

You are good with Excel. You love it. It gets the job done. You even heard about Macros, or VBA, but pushed it aside. It is not for you, you said to yourself. It is too complicated, you thought. I am here to tell you: it is exactly what you need to do next. Here is why.

The plain motivation at sight

Would you skip learning how to drive a car had I told you it can get you to your destination hundreds and thousand times faster than your bicycle?! I don’t think so.

Operating a vehicle may sound difficult, if not frightening, if all you’re used to is riding your bike. Still –...

Sometimes writing a short, simple function, can hide in-depth processing that resolves quickly – by calling… itself * What is a recursive function, how does it work, what to be aware of and how it is implemented in Excel VBA – read on…

What is a Recursive Function?

Technically speaking, a recursive function calls itself as part of its program flow.

Yes, you read it correct. This is the general idea:

Function CalcSomething(…) as Long

     …

     X = CalcSomething(…)

     …

End...

I received many questions on The Excel VBA Inner Circle program since it was launched. I summarize here the most frequent questions and my answers to them.

Last week I published a Blog post I thought would be all you may need in order to choose the right Inner Circle plan for you.

However, I am still getting some questions from some Excel enthusiasts about the program.

Today’s post is dedicated to those still having questions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q:           I already learned Excel VBA and get along pretty well. Why should I...

A rare glimpse of the “behind the scenes” work on an Excel project. From the raw customer request through the business requirements analysis report up to the delivered solution. Impressions from the first Excel VBA Inner Circle workshop.

The first Excel VBA Inner Circle monthly workshop took place two days ago.

The monthly workshop is a deep dive into some aspect of Excel VBA and SQL programming and career. I expose advanced VBA programming, code, user experience considerations, data design and processes planning, and any professional aspect having to do with Excel VBA and SQL.

These days, I am launching a unique home for Excel VBA enthusiasts and professionals. This is a result of a careful examination of the Excel VBA market, constant dialog with customers and years of projects, authoring and teaching. Here is the story of the Excel VBA Inner Circle.

Where do Excel VBA professionals Meet?

Microsoft Office is one of the most ubiquitous software serving almost every business and many individuals. In 2016, windowscentral.com estimated 1.2 Billion Office users worldwide.

When I segmented for Excel AND VBA interest in Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook found 400,000...

Arrays, one of the most flexible, performant and popular data structure in almost any programming language becomes especially useful in Excel. All you need to know about arrays in VBA is right here

In case you missed it, the last month in my Blog was dedicated to data structures in computer programming and their use in Excel VBA. After we covered Enumerations, Collections and User-Defined Data Types, we close this week with a grand finale: Arrays.

What is an Array?

An array is a memory storage structure for storing an indexed series of elements of the same data type.

This is how we would...