excel

75% Done

As far as writing reports in Excel is concerned, using just what we've discussed up til now get's us about 75% of where I want to take us.  The next 25% is more tedious to work through, but the advantages are worth it. Quick Change SQL The first...

It’s Time to Play

In the last post, we integrated frmPrompt into Macro1(), but we didn't take full advantage of what frmPrompt offers.  We limited values to just one for each parameter.  Today we are going to add the ability to filter our database using...

Putting it all Together

In the last post we finalized frmPrompt.  frmPrompt provides a feature rich and professional looking method for getting parameters for our customer's reports.  Today, we're going to ignore some of those rich features in order to ease us into integrating...

Asking for It

Looking for a Date?

Last post I introduced frmSelect_Multiple that helps users find:

• Codes/Types by Code/Type or Description
• Cities by Zipcode or Name
• Accounts by Number or Description
• Employees, Customers, or Vendors by ID/Number or...

Searching for Codes

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Creating a Date Prompt Form

We're going to replace XL's limited InputBox function with a user form.  If you've never created a user form, don't worry.  YouTube has several decent tutorials for you.  Check these out (at least the first one anyway), then come back here. YouTube videos on how to create forms in VBA

Good Form

If we stopped with only what has been posted in this blog so far, we would have a powerful tool set to create meaningful charts and drill down pivot tables from data residing in just about any database.  It only takes a couple of minutes to replace the SQL statement in Macro1() and to set...

Say Goodbye to QueryTables

We started with the QueryTable object in order to ease into this subject.  It's time to say farewell to QueryTable and fully embrace ADO.  I'm using ADO, not because it's the best, but because it is compatible with everything my customers have and (I'm guessing) with 98% of all current XL...