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A look back to Eusprig 2019
The 20th conference of the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group was held in Browns of Covent Garden, London on 11-12 July 2019, Thursday 11 July 2019 Developing Excel Thought Leadership David Lyford-Smith, ICAEW, Chartered Accountants’ Hall This described the development … Continue reading
Extend Excel: London 18 Oct
Charles Williams is organising a conference in London on October 18th, 2018. I’ll be there! This is a rare chance to meet leading developers from all over the world and hear directly from MS on Excel Extensibility. Expect to be … Continue reading
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Excel and PowerPoint 2016 for Mac gripes
I’ve been trying to maintain compatibility between Mac and Windows versions of Excel/VBA apps for a while now, and it’s a pain. These notes refer to versions 16.14 of both Excel and Powerpoint. Here are some of my recent threads … Continue reading
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Dublin Tech Summit 18-19 Apr 2018
#DTS18 @dubtechsummit Dublin Tech Summit is a two day (Wed 18 and Thu 19 April 2018) meetup of startups and business people intended to connect investors to tech companies, and to highlight emerging tech trends. I attended as a guest … Continue reading
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Tracing & Profiling VBA speed with TraceSpy
I’m interested in measuring VBA performance. I add tracing calls to the routines so I get the time on entrance and exit. I also optionally add a call to trace every line executed, which I use when I get unexpected … Continue reading
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Rubberduck VBA addin
The Rubberduck VBA (@rubberduckvba) open source project has been going for a couple of years, and when I was reminded of it recently I decided to give it a try. It’s definitely a help in VBA development and I’ll go on … Continue reading
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Conditional compilation VBA Excel Mac/Win/32/64…
To make my addin handle all the combinations of Excel 2007 onwards on Mac and Windows, 32-bit and 64-bit, I ended up with this conditional compilation block. The example I use is GetTickCount() but the principle applies to other declarations. Microsoft … Continue reading
