Data Validation Combo box – with AutoComplete feature

Data Validation doesn’t have an AutoComplete feature, which finds matching items in the list as you start to type. To overcome these limitations, you can add a combo box to your worksheet, and use programming to make it appear in cells that contain a data validation list.

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VBA Functions You Can’t Live Without

You can use Visual Basic for Applications to write macros in Excel, or other Microsoft Office apps. Macros are programs that can be used to perform an action repetitively. For example, you can write a macro to get the data from two cells in two distinct columns, add it and then return the output to the user. Now, whenever you want to add the data in two different columns, you can call the macro that you wrote earlier instead of typing a formula in the formula bar each time. You can see why macros are useful- and also why it’s a good idea to learn how to create them.

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20 Excel Tips for Becoming a Spreadsheet Pro

There are very, very few people on planet Earth who could ever say they’ve completely mastered every intricate little thing about Microsoft Excel. It’s the world’s premiere spreadsheet application, and has been the industry standard for over 20 years, replacing the once-venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. Microsoft Excel’s […]

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Excel macros

5 must-know Excel macros for common tasks

If you’re not using macros, you’re ignoring one of Excel’s most powerful features. Macros save you time and spare you headaches by automating common, repetitive tasks. And you don’t have to be a programmer or know Visual Basic Applications (VBA) to write one. With Excel 2013, it’s as simple as recording your keystrokes. Here we’ll […]

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Use Excel to download hundreds of images instantly

Use Excel to download hundreds of images instantly

The problem: Needing to download hundreds of images instantly We got some 1000+ images on our web portal, and we need to download each of them to local drive so that we can move them to new server all together The Solution: We needed to download the entire list of images and get the file name […]

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