VBA Excel Access roundup rounddown Function

This Excel Access tutorial explains how to use VBA to write an Access roundup (round up) and Access rounddown (round down) Function to simulate that in Excel. These roundup and rounddown Functions can also be used in Access and Excel VBA. Excel Access roundup rounddown Function In Excel Worksheet Function, there are round, roundup, rounddown, mround Functions. In Excel VBA, there is only round Function but no roundup, rounddown, mround Functions. The round Function is not the same as that i...
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Access Excel VBA generate random password or random characters

This Access Excel VBA tutorial explains how to generate random password or random characters with random number, random letters and random symbols. You may also want to read: Excel VBA generate non-duplicated random number Excel VBA Rnd Function to generate random number Access Excel VBA generate random password or random characters If you are a system administrator, very likely you need to genrate login password for users. Some people who are not good at Excel generate password com...
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Access Excel VBA convert number to English words

This Access Excel VBA tutorial explains how to convert number to English words in VBA. Access Excel VBA convert number to English words I want to share a custom Function I found in Microsoft Support website, which is to convert number to English words using Excel VBA (also applicable to Access). I want to highlight that the article is unlike other articles written by other contributors, this article has no author and I believe this Function was created by the Microsoft engineers, so this custo...
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Access Excel capitalize first letter in a sentence

This Access Excel tutorial explains how to capitalize first letter in a sentence using VBA custom Function. Capitalize first letter in a sentence In Excel spreadsheet, there is a Function called Proper, which converts all the first letter of each word to capital letter. Example  Using Proper Function he is a boy. she is a girl. He Is A Boy. She Is A Girl. he is a boy. his name is John. mary is a girl. He Is A Boy. His Name Is John. Mary Is A Girl. Mr.  smith is happy ...
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Access Excel remove text in brackets

This Access Excel VBA tutorial explains how to remove text in brackets using custom Function. You may also want to read: Change text color in brackets Extract text in brackets Access Excel remove text in brackets I was inspired to create this post because the HR system I am using (Workday) is very annoying, some data fields are actually a combination of two different fields, the additional data field is displayed in brackets in the prefix. For example,  an employee has a English name ...
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Get exchange rate using VBA Access Function

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a VBA custom function (UDF) in Microsoft Access in order to get the real time exchange rate. You may also want to read Get Foreign Exchange Rate in Excel Get exchange rate using VBA Access Function Yahoo Finance is designed in the way to facilitate you to get data. You can establish a connection to Yahoo and directly get the exchange rate using User Defined Function. Open Access, press ALT+F11 > Tools > References > enable "Microsoft W...
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Add Auto number in Access Query

This Access tutorial explains how to add auto number in Access Query using Access VBA Function. You may also want to read: Sort Data in Access Report Add sorting in Access Table field Add Auto number in Access Table In Microsoft Access, go to Design View of a Table and define the Data Type of a field as AutoNumber   Go to data view of the Table, each row of data is assigned a sequence number in ascending order. However, we cannot add the AutoNumber Data Type in Q...
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Access Excel extract file name from file path

This Excel tutorial explains how to extract file name from file path using VBA and without VBA. Excel Access VBA extract percentage from text Access Excel VBA extract number from text or extract alphabet Excel Extract Time from Date Time or Extract Date Excel extract file name from file path Assume that you have a file path such as C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\a.jpg If you want to extract file name a.jpg from the path in Excel, first we need to think about how to de...
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Excel Access VBA extract percentage from text

This Excel / Access tutorial explains how to extract percentage from text. Access Excel VBA extract number from text or extract alphabet Excel Extract Time from Date Time or Extract Date Access Excel extract file name from file path Excel extract text in brackets Excel Access VBA extract percentage from text Recently I got a report that contains percentage but it is mixed with other text. For example, Salary increased by 10% We are unable to do any calculation unless we extract the 1...
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Access Excel remove line break and carriage return

This Access / Excel tutorial explains how to remove carriage return and remove line break in a text. You may also want to read: Excel VBA separate line break data into different rows Access Excel remove carriage return and remove line break Recently our company uploaded employee data in spreadsheet data to the new system. One user reported that her home address shows some special code (something like hex code) that is supposed to be a space. Since the code appears after a comma, I suspec...
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