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Background When creating tools in Excel, I often want to simplify user input and operations. Therefore, I use UserForms in my programs. I wanted to be able to open a completed UserForm by clicking a button on the Excel sheet, so I learne...

Using Excel VBA, you can display a countdown timer directly inside a shape on your worksheet. In this article, we will create a system that displays "Remaining Time: 00:00:00" inside a shape and updates it in real-time every second. Goal...

Background When creating tools in Excel, you often want to simplify user input and operations. While UserForms are excellent for this, you need a way for the user to launch them easily from the worksheet. This article explains how to lin...

Using dropdown lists in Excel is a common way to simplify data entry. However, you may encounter issues where the list behavior changes or feels restricted after a selection is made. This article explains how to use VBA (Visual Basic for...

Background When creating a UserForm with VBA in Excel, you often encounter situations where you want to "keep a record of what was entered in the form." For example, when someone registers data using a form, it is useful to automatically...

Excel VBA allows you to easily automate the process of randomly extracting items from a specified name list and placing them into cells. This article introduces the procedure and VBA code for extracting random names without duplicates an...

Environment OS: Windows 10 Pro Software: Microsoft Outlook, Excel VBA Background While automating email distribution using VBA is efficient, there are many cases where you might want to double-check the "To" or "CC" fields—especially whe...

When sharing Excel files with macros, you may want to prevent others from viewing or accidentally editing your source code. To achieve this, you can lock the VBA project with a password. By setting this protection, the code becomes inacc...

When creating reports, you often need to transfer charts and tables from Excel to PowerPoint. Doing this manually for multiple slides is time-consuming. This article provides a VBA macro that automates the process of opening PowerPoint, ...

Environment OS: Windows 10 Pro Software: Microsoft Excel VBA, Outlook Background When creating Outlook emails using VBA, I used to write & vbCrLf repeatedly to insert line breaks in the body text. However, this made the code very dif...

Background When working in Excel, you often need to copy and reuse existing sheets. Previously, I would manually right-click the sheet tab and select "Move or Copy," but this process felt tedious. I wanted to automate it using VBA. In th...

This article explains how to efficiently delete empty rows from a table using VBA. Prerequisites This code is designed for the following conditions: Table Structure: The table exists on a single worksheet. Target Range: The rows to be de...

When working in Excel, you might want to automatically create a sheet with a specific date in its name and color it for better visibility. In this article, I will introduce how to easily achieve this using VBA. What We Will Achieve We wi...

Introduction When handling duplicate data in Excel, you often want to "prioritize and retrieve values at the bottom" (which usually means the newest data). I previously used functions like MATCH or INDEX to retrieve values, but since the...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

When organizing data in Excel, you may encounter columns that are completely filled with dashes ('-'). These columns are often unnecessary and clutter your spreadsheet. In this article, I will explain how to use VBA to automatically dele...

It is common to want to precisely adjust the size of an Excel chart after pasting it into PowerPoint using VBA. In this article, I will share the VBA code to paste a chart as a "picture" and then automatically resize it to specific dimen...

When using Excel VBA to paste charts into PowerPoint, have you ever wanted to paste them as a static "picture (image)" rather than an editable chart? In this article, I will explain how to paste an Excel chart as a "Shape (PNG Image)" on...

Background I used to manually copy and paste the contents of CSV files into Excel. This process was repetitive and time-consuming, so I created a VBA macro to import CSV files directly. This is particularly efficient when handling databa...

Background I am writing a VBA program for PowerPoint. Previously, I was manually cropping and pasting .bmp images repeatedly using image editing software. I decided to automate this process to save time. Specifications When you run the p...

Overview Have you ever wanted to automatically execute a macro just by selecting a specific cell in Excel? This article introduces how to create a VBA macro that runs a program automatically when you place the cursor on cells G2 to G100....

Sending documents created in Word to the same recipients via email is a standard task. Automating this repetitive work with VBA significantly reduces operation time. This article introduces a method to create a macro that, when executed ...

When pasting Excel charts into PowerPoint presentation materials, there are often scenarios where you want to freely control the placement of the graph using VBA. This article introduces how to use VBA to place a graph pasted into PowerP...

Introduction In this article, I will explain how to determine whether the 3rd character of a string is an alphabet letter or a number using VBA. Background I encountered a case where strings contained a mix of alphabets, numbers, and sym...