Data on a server can be modified by examining the records ‘client-side’ in Excel VBA, changing them as required, and saving them back to the server.
A more efficient way of doing this, particularly if the database is at a remote location and there’s a lot of traffic involved, is to do the work ‘server-side’. This exercise calls a stored procedure from Excel to categorise employees into age-ranges according to their dates of birth (i.e. 18-25 years, 26-35 years, etc.), without a...
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Where data downloaded from a database exceeds a combo box’s range, the new items are simply not shown. To counter this, the range that underlies List or Combo boxes needs to expand or contract to match the data. This article examines how to do this automatically.
It is assumed the reader has the Developer ribbon displayed and is familiar with the VBA Editor. If not, please Google “Excel Developer Tab” or “Excel Code Window”.
A professional way of displaying combo boxes is to...
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Not knowing how long a program will run makes us restless. The program might have hung, or might finish in five minutes – or maybe in two hours. This article looks at keeping the anxious user informed in real-time via the Status Bar.
This article assumes the reader has the Developer ribbon displayed and is familiar with the VBA Editor. If not, please Google “Excel Developer Tab” or “Excel Code Window”.
The exercise will look like this, using the example file found here.
The...
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