Excel VBA declare Global Variable and variable scope

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Wyman W

This Excel VBA tutorial explains how to declare private variable, global variable / public variable in VBA, and explain the scope of variable. You may also want to read: Function, Sub, Method, Property Difference between Dim and Set Scope of local variable / global variable / private variable Procedure Level When you declare a variable inside a Sub Procedure or Function (local variable), the variable can only be used within them. For example, in Sub Procedure1, you have declared...

Excel change default delimiter of CSV files

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to change default delimiter of CSV files from comma to other symbols. You may also want to read: Excel VBA convert CSV to Excel Excel change default delimiter of CSV files When you open a CSV file in Excel, you can see all columns are delimited by comma, you don't have to define which character you want to use to delimit the row. It is because the default delimiter of comma is configured at Windows level, all Windows applications (including Excel) will us...

Excel VBA convert CSV to Excel

Posted on January 29, 2017May 6, 2019 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to convert CSV to Excel in Excel VBA. You may also want to read: Access Excel FSO File Methods Import Chinese CSV to Excel Excel VBA Import CSV into Excel using Workbooks.OpenText Method Convert CSV to Excel in Excel VBA CSV is a commonly used format when you need to interface data from one system to another system. For modification purpose, it is best to convert to Excel format because it can contain formatting. This tutorial demonstrates how to wr...

Quickly search email in Outlook using criteria

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Wyman W

This Microsoft Outlook tutorial explains how to search email in Outlook using criteria and logical operators. Search email in Outlook If you receive dozens of emails everyday, it is extremely difficult to search a specific email or relevant emails. I have seen most people would sort by date and then sort by sender / receiver to search email, but it is extremely time consuming. Microsoft Outlook has a Search Tool which allows you specify the criteria, but that is still not quick enough to nav...

Excel VBA copy each worksheet to new workbook

Posted on January 26, 2017May 16, 2019 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to copy each worksheet to new workbook in Excel VBA. You may also want to read: VBA Worksheets.Copy Method to copy worksheet VBA copy workbook or file Excel VBA copy each worksheet to new workbook Suppose you have a workbook that contains multiple worksheets, now you want to copy each worksheet to a new workbook. In this post, I will demonstrate how to do it in Macro. Sub cpyWS() Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts ...

Excel calculate year of service with different methods

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to calculate year of service in Excel using different calculation methods. Excel calculate year of service Having worked for human resources field for some years in different companies, I have seen different systems / companies use different calculation methods to calculate year of service for annual leave entitlement. In this post, I want to summarize how to use Excel to calculate year of service using different methods to help HR professionals. Method 1 - ca...

Access VBA create Query using CreateQueryDef

Posted on January 18, 2017February 1, 2017 by Wyman W

This Access tutorial explains how to create Query in Access VBA using CreateQueryDef Method. You may also want to read: Change Query criteria Access VBA create Query Sometimes we don't want to create Query in Query Design View, because you may create a Query with criteria depending on a variable. To create Query in Access VBA, you can directly write a SQL statement in Access VBA, and then create a Query using the SQL statement with CreateQueryDef Method. Syntax of CreateQueryDef expres...

Access Excel VBA rename workbook or file

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Wyman W

This Access Excel VBA tutorial explains how to rename workbook or file in VBA using Name As. Access Excel VBA rename workbook or file It is very easy to rename a workbook or file in VBA using the below syntax. Name and As are the keywords. Name currentFilePath As newFilePath For example, suppose we have a file called test.xlsx in Desktop, and we want to rename it as test2.xlsx, run the below Procedure Public Sub renameWorkbook() Name "C:\Users\WYMAN\Desktop\test.xlsx" As "C:\Users\WYMA...

Excel Security Warning – Macros have been disabled

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Wyman W

This Excel tutorial explains how to solve the problem of Excel Security Warning - Macros have been disabled. Excel Security Warning - Macros have been disabled This Excel Security Warning is one of the most annoying warnings in Excel. If you click on the Options button, you will see the below message. In fact, this message does say something about the reason for this alert, it explained that this error is caused by encrypted Macro. What it means encrypted is that the Workbook contai...

Access Excel VBA copy workbook or file

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Wyman W

This Access Excel VBA tutorial explains how to copy workbook or file. You may also want to read: FSO File Methods Worksheets.Copy Method to copy worksheet Access Excel VBA copy workbook or file There are two common ways to copy workbook or file FSO.CopyFile Method FileCopy Function I have explained how to use different FSO Methods in my previous post, click to see more details. Using FSO.CopyFile Method to copy workbook You should be able to run FSO in Excel 2013. If you fa...