Contents

About ...............................................................................................................................................................
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Chapter 1: Getting started with Excel VBA
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Section 1.1: Opening the Visual Basic Editor (VBE)
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Section 1.2: Declaring Variables
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Section 1.3: Adding a new Object Library Reference
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Section 1.4: Hello World
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Section 1.5: Getting Started with the Excel Object Model
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Chapter 2: Arrays
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Section 2.1: Dynamic Arrays (Array Resizing and Dynamic Handling)
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Section 2.2: Populating arrays (adding values)
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Section 2.3: Jagged Arrays (Arrays of Arrays)
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Section 2.4: Check if Array is Initialized (If it contains elements or not)
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Section 2.5: Dynamic Arrays [Array Declaration, Resizing]
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Chapter 3: Conditional statements
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Section 3.1: The If statement
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Chapter 4: Ranges and Cells
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Section 4.1: Ways to refer to a single cell
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Section 4.2: Creating a Range
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Section 4.3: Oset Property
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Section 4.4: Saving a reference to a cell in a variable
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Section 4.5: How to Transpose Ranges (Horizontal to Vertical & vice versa)
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Chapter 5: Named Ranges
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Section 5.1: Define A Named Range
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Section 5.2: Using Named Ranges in VBA
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Section 5.3: Manage Named Range(s) using Name Manager
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Section 5.4: Named Range Arrays
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Chapter 6: Merged Cells / Ranges
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Section 6.1: Think twice before using Merged Cells/Ranges
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Chapter 7: Locating duplicate values in a range
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Section 7.1: Find duplicates in a range
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Chapter 8: User Defined Functions (UDFs)
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Section 8.1: Allow full column references without penalty
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Section 8.2: Count Unique values in Range
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Section 8.3: UDF - Hello World
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Chapter 9: Conditional formatting using VBA
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Section 9.1: FormatConditions.Add
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Section 9.2: Remove conditional format
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Section 9.3: FormatConditions.AddUniqueValues
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Section 9.4: FormatConditions.AddTop10
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Section 9.5: FormatConditions.AddAboveAverage
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Section 9.6: FormatConditions.AddIconSetCondition
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Chapter 10: Workbooks
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Section 10.1: When To Use ActiveWorkbook and ThisWorkbook
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Section 10.2: Changing The Default Number of Worksheets In A New Workbook
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Section 10.3: Application Workbooks
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Section 10.4: Opening A (New) Workbook, Even If It's Already Open
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Section 10.5: Saving A Workbook Without Asking The User
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Chapter 11: Working with Excel Tables in VBA
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Section 11.1: Instantiating a ListObject
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Section 11.2: Working with ListRows / ListColumns
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Section 11.3: Converting an Excel Table to a normal range
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Chapter 12: Loop through all Sheets in Active Workbook
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Section 12.1: Retrieve all Worksheets Names in Active Workbook
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Section 12.2: Loop Through all Sheets in all Files in a Folder
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Chapter 13: Use Worksheet object and not Sheet object
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Section 13.1: Print the name of the first object
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Chapter 14: Methods for Finding the Last Used Row or Column in a
Worksheet ..................... 48
Section 14.1: Find the Last Non-Empty Cell in a Column
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Section 14.2: Find the Last Non-Empty Row in Worksheet
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Section 14.3: Find the Last Non-Empty Column in Worksheet
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Section 14.4: Find the Last Non-Empty Cell in a Row
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Section 14.5: Get the row of the last cell in a range
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Section 14.6: Find Last Row Using Named Range
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Section 14.7: Last cell in Range.CurrentRegion
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Section 14.8: Find the Last Non-Empty Cell in Worksheet - Performance (Array)
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Chapter 15: Creating a drop-down menu in the Active Worksheet
with a Combo Box .......... 54
Section 15.1: Example 2: Options Not Included
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Section 15.2: Jimi Hendrix Menu
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Chapter 16: File System Object
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Section 16.1: File, folder, drive exists
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Section 16.2: Basic file operations
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Section 16.3: Basic folder operations
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Section 16.4: Other operations
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Chapter 17: Pivot Tables
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Section 17.1: Adding Fields to a Pivot Table
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Section 17.2: Creating a Pivot Table
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Section 17.3: Pivot Table Ranges
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Section 17.4: Formatting the Pivot Table Data
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Chapter 18: Binding
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Section 18.1: Early Binding vs Late Binding
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Chapter 19: autofilter ; Uses and best practices
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Section 19.1: Smartfilter!
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Chapter 20: Application object
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Section 20.1: Simple Application Object example: Display Excel and VBE Version
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Section 20.2: Simple Application Object example: Minimize the Excel window
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Chapter 21: Charts and Charting
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Section 21.1: Creating a Chart with Ranges and a Fixed Name
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Section 21.2: Creating an empty Chart
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Section 21.3: Create a Chart by Modifying the SERIES formula
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Section 21.4: Arranging Charts into a Grid
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Chapter 22: CustomDocumentProperties in practice
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Section 22.1: Organizing new invoice numbers
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Chapter 23: PowerPoint Integration Through VBA
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Section 23.1: The Basics: Launching PowerPoint from VBA
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Chapter 24: How to record a Macro
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Section 24.1: How to record a Macro
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Chapter 25: SQL in Excel VBA - Best Practices
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Section 25.1: How to use ADODB.Connection in VBA?
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Chapter 26: Excel-VBA Optimization
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Section 26.1: Optimizing Error Search by Extended Debugging
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Section 26.2: Disabling Worksheet Updating
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Section 26.3: Row Deletion - Performance
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Section 26.4: Disabling All Excel Functionality Before executing large macros
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Section 26.5: Checking time of execution
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Section 26.6: Using With blocks
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Chapter 27: VBA Security
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Section 27.1: Password Protect your VBA
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Chapter 28: Debugging and Troubleshooting
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Section 28.1: Immediate Window
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Section 28.2: Use Timer to Find Bottlenecks in Performance
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Section 28.3: Debugger Locals Window
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Section 28.4: Debug.Print
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Section 28.5: Stop
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Section 28.6: Adding a Breakpoint to your code
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Chapter 29: VBA Best Practices
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Section 29.1: ALWAYS Use "Option Explicit"
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Section 29.2: Work with Arrays, Not With Ranges
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Section 29.3: Switch o properties during macro execution
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Section 29.4: Use VB constants when available
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Section 29.5: Avoid using SELECT or ACTIVATE
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Section 29.6: Always define and set references to all Workbooks and Sheets
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Section 29.7: Use descriptive variable naming
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Section 29.8: Document Your Work
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Section 29.9: Error Handling
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Section 29.10: Never Assume The Worksheet
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Section 29.11: Avoid re-purposing the names of Properties or Methods as your variables
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Section 29.12: Avoid using ActiveCell or ActiveSheet in Excel
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Section 29.13: WorksheetFunction object executes faster than a UDF equivalent
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Chapter 30: Excel VBA Tips and Tricks
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Section 30.1: Using xlVeryHidden Sheets
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Section 30.2: Using Strings with Delimiters in Place of Dynamic Arrays
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Section 30.3: Worksheet .Name, .Index or .CodeName
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Section 30.4: Double Click Event for Excel Shapes
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Section 30.5: Open File Dialog - Multiple Files
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Chapter 31: Common Mistakes
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Section 31.1: Qualifying References
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Section 31.2: Deleting rows or columns in a loop
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Section 31.3: ActiveWorkbook vs. ThisWorkbook
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Section 31.4: Single Document Interface Versus Multiple Document Interfaces
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Credits ............................................................................................................................................................
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