sometime we have to highlight Duplicates in excel and later work on them rather then deleting them using option " Remove Duplicates " .
here we will use " Conditional Formatting " for finding-out duplicates .

In our earlier post we showed one example of User Defined Function or Custom function that one can write to perform operations that are not provided by in build functions in the excel. Though there is one limitation of User Defined Function that the formula will not automatically recalculate the values whenever the cells are updated.

It happens many times when you are writing a Macro and you need to find the unique items out of the a range of items. Suppose you have an excel sheet that has the employee ids of you the people working in a company but the list has duplicate entries. Though there is a feature in excel where you can just display the unique name but to do the same using Macro you need to write a code.

Sometimes you need to calculate a value before you enter it into your worksheet. Before you reach for your pocket calculator, you may like to know that Excel lets you enter a formula in a cell, and then use the result in that same cell. This way, the formula disappears and you're left with the result of the calculated value. This will not only save your time but also make you more efficient in excel because you won't need to open a separate application for finding out simple multiplications or other calculations.

As a part of my work I have to make many complex reports with so many Pivot tables to represent the data into various formats. On an average the reports that I work with has at least four to five pivot tables in a single workbook. Pivots work great but you have to manually refresh all the pivots whenever you update the data.

It is frustrating to format the report in excel. Most of the companies follows certain guidelines to present the report in a specified format like column headings should be in grey background color, the font size should be 8 etc. Changing the content color of the cell is done too often. To work faster you can use a shortcut to change the color of any cell or group of cells that you have selected.

A procedure holds a group of VBA statements that accomplishes a desired Task. A procedure is a series of VBA statements that resides in a VBA module, which you access in the Visual Basic Editor. A module can hold any number of procedures. You have a number of ways to call, or execute, procedures. A procedure is executed from beginning to end (but it can also be ended prematurely).

Ok so we have learned how to record a Macro and we discussed couple of examples where we recorded the macros. As we discussed in our earlier blog that for modifying our recorded Macros or to write our own Macro from beginning we need to use VBA Editor.

So you have recorded your first Macro in Excel VBA but most of the times you want to do something more that cannot be achieved with just recording and for customizing the Macro you need to Modify the VBA Code. VBA Editor is just for that, modifying and writing your own code.

In our earlier posts we discussed how to record a Macro and we discussed one example to record a macro to AutoFit. Lets take one more example to create a Macro to Merge and De-Merge the selected cells quickly, which is otherwise a long procedure.

AutoFit is something that makes the data in the Sheet more presentable and readable. This is one example where we can create a simple Macro to apply AutoFit property to the sheet.

The Easiest and the fastest way to learn Excel VBA Programming is by using the Recording Macro feature. This cool feature of Excel will record all the steps you perform on Excel sheet and generate a Code. You can later view the code and see how your actions are translated into VBA Code.

It happens many time that you write a mail but forgot to mention the subject. I know it is embarrassing to send an important official mail without a subject. It has happened to me also when I used to do it a lot and I remember my Manager making strange faces at me.

It very likely that multiple people would be working on the same excel sheet for updating the data. For example you want to gather some information from your employees like their address, then you can create an excel sheet and save it on a shared location.

We all know that there is a feature in the excel sheet to transpose rows into columns or vice-versa. To transpose just select the row or column and paste-special with transpose checkbox selected but what if you want to do the transposing a complete table? There is no such feature in excel so for achieving two dimensional transposing we will write a macro.