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Turning an Excel table into CSS
This is my very ugly, very formatted, table to test my translation skills, first into HTML and now into CSS. Every cell has at least two formats that have a counterpart in CSS, and the table runs...
View ArticleMaking a Wiki Table
Writing for Wikipedia is a bit like writing in your third language—you know there are words for it, but your guides are from your second language—Wiki pour Les Nuls or maybe Wiki para Maniquíes. It’s a...
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A Suite of XL Color Functions, Part 1
Your monitor was sold to you as being able to display more than 16 million colors. How many, exactly? 2563 or 16,777,216. One color for every combination possible of reds, greens, and blues in the...
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A Suite of XL Color Functions, Part 2
When you go to replenish your ink cartridges, you don’t come home with a Red/Green/Blue gizmo. You come home with a Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black multi-pack whose cost is about the same as your printer....
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A Suite of XL Color Functions, Part 3
HEXADECIMAL and XL color values are equivalent systems for representing RGB colors, but they start at different ends. In XL, pure red–RGB(255,0,0)–is 25510. In HEX, pure red–FF000–is 1671168010. XL has...
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Getting a Font List to a Combo Box
The other day a reader asked about how to get a font list to a combo box so his users could have a choice to specify. Borrowing shamelessly from John Walkenbach’s Tip 79, this is one way to do it. I...
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Noughts and Crosses
Last month I read an article about a job interviewer who played TicTacToe with his applicants. It was like an instant shared round of golf, and the interviewer put great store in the correlation of...
View ArticleExcel and LinkedIn Groups
As I write, there are 1,055 LinkedIn groups with the keyword Excel. Not all of them are about software. Some exist to “support members to learn, grow, and excel.” So, I refined the search to include...
View ArticleUsing the “short date”, “medium date” and “long date” formats
I came across a line of code that formatted a date in VBA like this: Format(aDate,”short date”). And I didn’t get it. So with a little investigation, it turns out that “short date” (and “medium date”...
View ArticleVBE Code Indenter for the Macintosh
I lived in two worlds. My work was done on a PC, but my home computer has been a Mac since the Mac Plus. One thing my work PC had that my Mac never did was a code indenter for prettifying macro code....
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