What's New At The CPearson.com Excel Web Source http://www.cpearson.com/excel/MainPage.aspx en-us Copyright 2008, 2009, Charles H Pearson chip@cpearson.com chip@cpearson.com http://www.cpearson.com/images/RssPageLogo.png http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/MainPage.aspx What's new at the cpearson.com web site. Keeping Focus On The Worksheet When Showing A Form http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/SetFocus.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-03-18T05:30:00 When you show a form, input focus goes to the form. Using a few simple Windows API functions, you can keep focus on the worksheet rather than on the form. Creating Multiple SubDirectories http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/MakeDirMulti.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-02-12T05:30:00 VBA's MkDir function can create a subdirectory, but the parent directory must already exist. This can be cumberson when create deep levels of directories. This page shows how to create a subdirectory structure to any depth you need. New FindAll Function http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/FindAll.aspx Chip Pearson 2010-01-05T09:30:00 The existing FindAll functions, which finds all occurrences of a value in a range of cells, has been rewritten with options to allow text matching at the beginning or end of the text in the found cell. Cleanup Time http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Easter.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-12-14T09:30:00 It has been a period of cleaning up, revising, rewriting, and other such general housekeeping. Examples are clearer, a number of bug have been fixed, and the web site is now a bit better than before. Calculating The Date Of Easter http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Easter.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-9-30T09:30:00 This page describes how to calculate the date of Easter. Both a worksheet formula and a VBA function are shown. Wait Functions For VBA http://www.cpearson.com/zips/modWait.zip Chip Pearson 2009-9-12T09:30:00 Ths downloadable module file contains the following functions: WaitForFileCreate, which waits for a specified file to be created. WaitForFileClose, which waits for a specified file to be closed. ShellAndWait, which calls Shell to run a program and then waits for that program to finish. All functions support wait timeouts and break key handlers. Week Numbers In Excel http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/WeekNumbers.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-9-3T09:30:00 Many organizations and applications use the week number of a data for identification and organizational purposes. However, this can be problematic since there are various definitions of what the first day of the first week should be. It could be simply January 1, or the first occurrence of a particular day of week, or some other defintion. This page describes a number of formulas and VBA procedures to work with various types of week numbers. A Better WORKDAY Function. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/BetterWorkday.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-8-18T09:30:00 Excel's WORKDAY function suffers a significant shortcoming: Saturday and Sunday are hard-coded into the function. You cannot specify other or additional days of the week to exclude. This page provides a function that allows you to exclude any number of the days of the week. Functions for working with calculations involving days of the week. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/DayOfWeekFunctions.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-8-14T09:30:00 This pages describes about ten functions, implemented both as worksheet formulas and as VBA functions, that you can use in calculations involving days of the week. Downloadable example Visual Studio project for Automation Libraries. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/CreatingNETFunctionLib.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-7-7T09:30:00 You can download the Visual Studio 2008 project files for the NET function library described on the web site. Defined Names In Worksheets And Workbooks. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/DefinedNames.aspx Chip Pearson 2009-6-6T09:30:00 This page introduces Defined Names and illustrates how to use them in worksheets and workbooks.