I'm using VBA excel 2003,SQL 2005 to make a sql query call and inside my sql statement I'm using '+' operator to concatenate two strings. dim query as string query = "Select distinct ', '+emailaddress1 " query = query & "from contact " would this work inside vba? My query returns too many records in excel but not in SQL? Please just...
I created a dropdown by dragging the combo box onto my sheet from the UserForm toolbar. I assigned some values to it from some cells in the book. Now I want some vba code to access the selected dropdown item's value in form of a string. My dropdown contains only text. Also how do I find the name of this newly created dropdown...it's n...
Here is a question for my Father. He has been using VBA in Excel for more than two decades going from Excel 5 to this day where he is using Excel 2002. As he has used VBA in Excel for so long, making extensive use of the ability to record macros, he has continued to invest in Excel as it has been rather stable (in terms of its VBA func...
Hello there. I've been fiddling with Excel VBA for some time, but I never had any formal training whatsoever. I have the following piece of code on a XLSM module : Public Type ks_solution W As Integer NF As String ID As Integer End Type Public Sub MySub() //does some things MyKSSolution = MyFunction(params) End Sub ...
Hi, I need help creating a VBA macro that downloads closing price data directly from Yahoo Finance's Historic Quotes website and imports the data into an Excel spreadsheet column. Background information: This is the link to Yahoo Finance's Historical Quote database - To download as a TXT file: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table...
I have some very simple code that adds a new Worksheet, after the current worksheets, to an Excel document, and then changes its name to one entered in a text box on a userform. Works fine on a new workbook, however in a workbook that has a number of existing worksheets it creates the new worksheet, but does not rename it. This only hap...
Hi All, I have an excel sheet which as a lot of fields to enter data in. Let's say the total fields I have is 20. Ten of them are locked by default whenever the user opens the workbook. Now, one of the fields is asking the user to enter a password. If the password was "AAA", then five fields (of the Ten locked ones) will be unlocked and...
Hi folks, I've been writing some pretty long SQL queries in notepad and then pasting them into my VBA code as-is and then formatting the multi-line string correctly each line at a time. For example... In my text editor, the query looks like this. SELECT a, b, c, ..., n FROM table1, table2, ...
I'm an Excel VBA newbie. How to change the value of the specified cell via a user-defined function? What's wrong with this code: Function Test(ByVal ACell As Range) As String ACell.Value = "This text is set by a function" Test := "Result" End Function My wish is ... when I type =Test(E6) in cell E1, Excel will display the specifi...
This line of VBA code downloads a CSV file from the web and dumps the data into a spreadsheet. Can someone please help me figure out how to tweak the SQL in this code in order to select the "Close" column in the CSV table and insert that column into the spreadsheet? Thank you! Sub test() Dim sqldata As QueryTable Set sqldata = Active...
My sheet currently has already data. Unfortunately, later I realize that all values in column E should be validated and changed as necessary by calling my own user-defined function and passing the values as the function parameter. For example, just says I have the following data in column E: E1: "This is a text in (E1)" E2: "This is a t...
Hi, I have assigned macro to few buttons. How can I find out inside macro which button was clicked? I am doing as user form, where he can input peoples from family: name1: surname1: name2: surname2: |add next member| I wish button to appear always in last row of the last added person. For simpli...
Dear All, I want to use the vlookup function in VB6. what is the code for it? I am currently using this code: WorkSheetName.Application.VLookup(20,WorkSheetName2.Range("A2:B20").Address,2,False) WorkSheetName2 contains the lookup table. WorkSheetName is the sheet that contains a list of values to be looked up for their corresponding v...
Hello, I need to use DataGrid control in excel userForm but I can't found it, please help? I use excel 2007 & windows 7 I don't need any thing similar to DataGrid such as spreed sheet control or what ever. Thank you, ...
Hello, I has not a lot of experience in VBA programming. What I need - is the possibility to create a simple form to extract some Excel file to the defined table by adding the records. Could you please tell me what function or a set of functions can be used in this case: to open the Excel file, define the spreadsheet, extract data inse...
I think the title says it all. Eventually, I want to move the cell to the location where the last error occured. Edit: Forgot to say that I'm using Excel 2003. ...
Hi there. I've googled this question several times, but I can't find something that works. I want to declare an array of arrays (arrArr) of unspecified length. Actually, I work with Excel: if the sheet exists, fetch its array and store it in the array of arrays. I've declared this arrArr like this, and the program basically works this ...
I'm using DoEvents to force an update of a progress indicator in the status bar (or in some cell in the sheet) as in the example code below. But the screen doesn't refresh, or stops refreshing at some point. The task eventually completes but the progress bar is useless. Why won't DoEvents "do the events"? What else can I do to force a s...
Dear All, I have an excel file (.xls) with data in the first Sheet that is named "Customers". I also have an Access.mdb database that contains a table called " CustomerDetails". I would like to transfer the data from the excel sheet into the Access database using VB6 code. How can I do that? Thanks in advance, ...
Pardon me as am a newbie in VBA, VB.NET. Sometimes I use Dim r as Range r = Range("A1") Other times I use Set r = Range("A1") What is the difference? And when should I use what? Can someone please point me to a tutorial on the difference? ...