Downloads

RefTreeAnalyser

Ever had to work out the logic of other people's Excel files? Ever had to untie the spaghetti-knots of a large Excel workbook's formulas? Then you know what a nightmare this can be!

Now there is the RefTreeAnalyser!

Name Manager

The Name Manager An excellent utility to manage defined names in your workbooks.

FlexFind

Flexfind eases searching and replacing throughout an entire workbook. Also enables you to search and replace strings in objects such as headers and footers, chart titles, buttons and many, many more.

Autosafe

The previous version is still available: Autosafe34.zip   (13 January 2003, 228k, downloaded: 4339 times) Note that this one shows a nag screen on networked computers.

Autosafe does not work on a Mac.

GoBack

Sometimes one has to edit a large workbook, with many worksheets. This tiny utility keeps a record of the ranges you have visited and gives you the opportunity to return to previous selections using two hot keys: control-alt-p to go to a previous selection and control-alt-n to go to the next. It also creates a toolbar with a dropdown to select a previous selection and  to disable/enable the utility.

FollowCellPointer

A small tool which follows your cell pointer by placing two arrows on top of your sheet pointing to the active cell. Does not change your formatting.

HeaderFooter

HeaderFooter.zip (28 January 2008, downloaded: 7711 times) Version 1.0 build 006.

Managing headers and footers in Excel can be a drag. This little tool helps you to change headers and footers in your files easily by means of a toolbar that shows dropdown/edit boxes in which you can type the header/footer codes directly or select them from the list of currently present header/footer codes in your file.

SetupUtility

SetupUtility.zip (Updated May 5, 2008, downloaded: 9863 times)

If you have created a nice add-in (see this article how to do that), a setup utility is an easy way for your users to install your addin. This free utility just needs you to change 4 cells to roll your own setup file.

Update: Now automatically removes invalid addins from addin list (courtesy: http://tinyurl.co.uk/zde9).

UpdateAnAddin

UpdateAnAddin.xls (Updated February 19, 2007, downloaded: 9901 times)

If you have created a nice add-in (see this article how to do that), an updating mechanism is an easy way to ensure your users get any bugfixes you did automatically . This download demonstrates how you can implement this functionality in your addin.

ShowTableOnUserform

ShowTableOnUserform.zip (14 May 2008, downloaded: 5136 times)

For a project I needed a quick way to display the content of an array to the user. I didn't want to use a worksheet, but opted for a userform. The data I wanted to show was contained in an array. So I figured I'd put a listbox on a userform and make sure the column widths of the listbox resize with the data I want shown. That proved far from easy... See this article on how it works.

FixLinks2UDF

FixLinks2UDF.zip (02 June 2008, downloaded: 2865 times)

A demo file that handles #Name! errors for workbooks that use UDFs that reside in an add-in. See this article on how that works.

QueryManager

QueryManager.zip (Build 017, 23 September 2010, downloaded: 10142 times)

This utility has been developed together with Dick Kusleika. It eases the editing of queries and Pivottable connections. One can:

1. Edit the SQL string and the connect string of queries and PivotCaches

2. Add parameters

3. Change the path to the data source

All in a single dialog.

AutosafeVBE

AutosafeVBE.zip (build 026, 6 Aug 2007, 260k, downloaded: 14405 times)

This utility makes backup copies of VBA components to a user-defined directory. It keeps a user selectable number of copies of each component. It thus keeps a number of generations of your code as your work progresses, enabling you to return to a previous copy when things go wrong. Because it just exports the VBA components, it is unobtrusive because this process is relatively fast compared to saving your workbook or document. Excel and Word version included!!

Non linear Least Squares

ExcelVBEMultilineSR

ExcelVBEMultilineSR.zip (Version 1.0, Build 004, 27 Nov 2008, 634k, downloaded: 4611 times)

This utility enables you to do Search and Replace operations in the Visual Basic Editor of Excel. What is special about this tool is that you can search for multiple lines of code and replace with multiple lines of code.
WARNING: ALPHA VERSION, USE AT OWN RISK!

CopyVBAProject

CopyVBAProject.zip (Version 1.0, Build 007, 05 Oct 2007, 56k, downloaded: 4809 times)

This utility enables you to copy the components from the VBAProject of workbook A to Workbook B
Build 004: Existing modules are removed before copying.
USE AT OWN RISK!

ExportVBAProject

ExportVBAProject.zip (Version 1.0, Build 001, 14 Oct 2011, 24k, downloaded: 806 times)

This utility enables you to copy the components from a VBAProject to a single text file. Very useful if you need to compare the VBA code of two Excel files. Use this handy tool to compare differences in the exported files: ExamDiff

ObjectLister

Objectlister.zip (Version 1.0, Build 003, 1 October 2008, 56k, downloaded: 6900 times) Lists objects, properties and methods of the selected object and enables you to quickly build code that uses many properties of an object. See the ObjectLister page for more information.

AutoChrt

AutoChrt.zip (10 November 2000, 7k, downloaded: 15009 times)

Automates the process of creating graphs from database-like datasets, where you need to chart various columns against each other in x-y scatter charts to determine relationships between them. It consists of a sheet where to copy the data into and a sheet that holds the chart and some spinner-buttons to control which data are charted.

ChartAnEquation

ChartAnEquation.zip (May 1, 2005, 5K, downloaded: 7949 times)

Demonstrates a method to chart a mathematical equation using just defined names.
See this article for an explanation.

ControlHandler

ControlHandler.zip     (17 June 2005, 26k, downloaded: 6420 times)

Demonstrates a method to handle the events for multiple controls on a worksheet using a single class module. See this article for an explanation.

CatchPasteDemo

CatchPasteDemo.zip (17 Dec 2007, 21k, downloaded: 4030 times)

Demonstrates how to intercept paste operations in a workbook to prevent users from wrecking your validation. The download contains two workbooks; one for Excel 2003 and earlier, the other for Excel 2007 and 2010. See this article for an explanation.

UndoHandler

UndoHandler.zip     (8 March  2006, 24k, downloaded: 6361 times)

Demonstrates a method to enable the user to undo changes made by your VBA code. See this article for an explanation.

WatchOtherCell

WatchOtherCell.zip     (9 February 2006, 25k, downloaded: 6333 times)

This workbook simplifies looking at data in a sheet with a lot of columns. It shows the value of a cell on the same row in a column one can enter in a textbox. This way you can scroll all over the sheet and always (e.g.) have the value of a cell in column BE in view. Start the watcher by opening the file and using its entry in the Tools menu.

GetARange

GetARange.zip     (4 May 2006, 26k, downloaded: 8705 times)

This workbook demonstrates a bug in the VBA Application.InputBox function as described here. The workbook also contains a userform and sample code to work around that bug.

EditOpenXML

EditOpenXML.zip    (5 September 2011, 26k, downloaded: 3801 times)

Wouldn't it be useful to be able to edit the contents of an Office 2007 OpenXML file from within VBA? Well, now you can using this demo file. Find a full description here.

Arg2Name

Arg2Name.zip     (8 February 2001, 10k, downloaded: 13482 times)

This workbook demonstrates a trick to pass (range) arguments to defined name formula's. As published in David Hagers' EEE #9, available from John Walkenbach's web site. See the Excel names page.

xlMenuFunDict

xlMenuFunDict.zip   (29 Jan 2003, 810k, downloaded: 15366 times)

International versions of Office have the menu system in their local language. Also the Excel worksheet functions are (mostly) listed in local language. This complicates communication with the users with such a version. To aid in this process a utility has been devised that creates and shows a translation list of the Excel built-in command bars and controls and the Excel worksheet functions. This workbook can also list command bars of other Office software packages. It thus enables the international user who is using a different language version of Excel to quickly find translations for sequences of menu commands and function names.