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“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)   A number of us British Excel’ers (I nearly said English, Roger would never forgive me) have been holding Excel conferences for a few years. It had been a paid event, but there was no such event in 2008 as the 2007 event was not well enough attended. In 2009, we decided to try something different, and make the event free! Naturally, interest was high, and at the conference (held at … Continue reading Shreds And Patches

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 If you are in the habit of building or customising Excel 2007 Ribbons, there is an indispensable new tool that has just hit the market. Andy Pope has released his RibbonX Visual Designer, which can be found here.   I have blogged previously about how I find cutting XML tedious, and the inadequate tools available, so this is a more than useful addition to make ribbon design and coding simpler. It provides a GUI to facilitate the Ribbon build, simple point and click rather than the tedious line coding. The big advantage of this … Continue reading Ribbons – Gain Without The Pain

I had a simple requirement recently, I wanted to create a form where it was possible to navigate around using shortcut keys. Easy you would think, just assign accelerator keys to labels and/or commandbuttons … problem solved. Unfortunately, I also have a number of frames with multiple checkboxes in them, groups of checkboxes. And guess what, frames don’t support the accelerator property. My first thought was to overlay the frame with a label and blank out the frame caption. As labels have an accelerator property, this should work, using a shortcut key would hotkey to the label and then you … Continue reading Why Does Excel Make It So Hard?