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When dealing with large log files or CSV files, you often need to extract only the lines that contain specific keywords. Searching manually takes time, but by using VBA, you can automatically extract and paste only the lines that match y...

You often encounter situations where you want to save a file created by a macro to the user's Desktop or read a file from the Documents folder. However, these folder paths vary depending on the username, such as C:\Users\John\Desktop. If...

Introduction When sharing calculation sheets created in Excel with others, you often want to "remove the formulas and send only the visible result values." Usually, you would copy the range and select "Values" from "Paste Special" (commo...

Introduction In VBA UserForms, ListBoxes are not just for displaying fixed lists. You can dynamically add items based on user actions, delete selected items, or clear (empty) the entire list. This allows you to create features like shopp...

Fixed-width text files (also known as position-based formats) are structured so that each item has a set number of characters, unlike CSVs which use delimiters. To accurately import such data into Excel, the Workbooks.OpenText method and...

When saving reports created with macros, you might want to let the user decide the file name, save location, and file type (such as xlsx or pdf) instead of using a fixed name. By using the Application.GetSaveAsFilename method in VBA, you...

Introduction When handling dates in VBA, there is often a need to "determine if today's date exists within a specified range." I recently needed to identify the position of a cell containing "today's date" in a sheet where dates are list...

When handling many sheets in Excel, the order of the tabs can become messy, making it difficult to find the sheet you need. Manually dragging and sorting them is very tedious when there are many sheets. With VBA, you can automatically so...

Do you ever need to find where a specific keyword or person's name is used across multiple Excel files at once? Using Excel's standard search function requires opening books one by one and repeating the search, which is very time-consumi...

When automating processes with Excel VBA, you may encounter warnings or validation errors that are hard to notice with just a text message. Wouldn't it be more convenient if you could get an alert using sound? In this article, I will int...

VBA has a function called CurDir that gets the current working folder of the Excel application. Paired with this, there are commands available to change this current folder programmatically. These commands are ChDir (Change Directory) an...

Bulk renaming, such as "adding today's date to multiple report filenames in a folder," is a frequent task in file organization. By using the FileSystemObject (FSO), you can easily rename files and folders in VBA. In this article, I will ...

When building UserForms in VBA, you often need dynamic controls that respond to situations, such as: "I want to enable a text box only when a checkbox is checked," or "I want to switch which items are displayed based on an option button ...

Organizing or summarizing files often requires checking what subfolders exist inside a specific folder and exporting that list to an Excel sheet. You can easily achieve this using the .SubFolders property of the FileSystemObject (FSO) Fo...

In Excel, making cells uneditable usually requires the steps of "Locking Cells" followed by "Protecting the Sheet." However, setting this up every time can be tedious. I investigated whether a similar function could be implemented using ...

You often want to display Excel sheet data, such as product lists or customer directories, directly in a VBA UserForm. The "ListBox" control supports multiple columns. By setting just a few properties, you can replicate the worksheet tab...

Once you create a table (ListObject) in Excel, you may need to dynamically update its target range as data is added or removed. By using the VBA .Resize method, you can smartly reconfigure the range without deleting and recreating the ta...

There are often situations where you want to email only a completed report sheet or save specific sheets together as a separate file. By using the VBA .Copy or .Move methods, you can easily extract sheets into a new workbook. In this art...

When you try to open a workbook containing references to other Excel files using VBA, you might encounter a message saying, "This workbook contains links to one or more external sources." This prompt causes the macro to pause, waiting fo...

When you close a workbook in VBA using .Close, if there are unsaved changes, Excel displays a confirmation message: "Do you want to save your changes?" This causes the macro to pause and wait for a user response, which prevents full auto...

There is often a need to export a specific range of Excel data as a "tab-delimited" text file (.txt), especially when importing data into other systems. Manually copying data and pasting it into Notepad is time-consuming and prone to err...

In this article, I will introduce a macro that uses Excel VBA to sort any range in ascending order based on a specific column. This helps eliminate manual work on your spreadsheets and ensures highly consistent data organization. Prerequ...

Have you ever wanted to use shapes or flowcharts created in Excel for presentation slides or websites? Taking screenshots and cropping them manually can be tedious. With VBA, you can instantly save specific shapes as high-quality image f...

Have you ever wanted to automatically create reports or cover letters in Word using data compiled in Excel? With Excel VBA, you can control the Word application behind the scenes to automate everything from document creation to text entr...

Let's use a UserForm to dynamically change the data range of a graph in Excel VBA. In this article, I will introduce a method to specify the start and end rows using two text boxes and update the chart display range by clicking an "Updat...

This article introduces two useful Excel VBA macros for managing images and shapes. Auto-Insert Macro: Automatically inserts images from a folder into shapes that have matching numbers (e.g., puts "photo1.jpg" into the shape named "Image...

Introduction When you want to allow users to freely select "necessary items" from multiple options in a VBA UserForm, the Checkbox control is the best choice. It is useful for various purposes, such as questionnaire answers or selecting ...

When using macros (VBA) in Microsoft Word, you will often encounter file formats such as ".docm" and ".dotm". While they may seem similar, their purposes and behaviors are quite different. It is important to use them correctly depending ...

Background When working with multiple graphs in Excel, I often encountered a situation where I needed to "change the line color for a specific data series only." Doing this manually with the mouse becomes very inefficient as the number o...

Background When working in Excel, you often need to reset or clear the contents of specific cells where you have entered data. I wanted to create a tool that allows me to "delete text from specific cells only when a button is pressed." I...