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Microsoft sneaked a couple of ne As we should all know by now, PowerPivot provides Excel with a powerful way to harness data from one or more sources, and to do further analysis on that data within familiar pivot tables. Furthermore, because PowerPivot is creating an in-memory cube of the data, it is possible to build an analysis using CUBE formulae. I have blogged a couple of times about CUBE formulae, in Cycling Through The Fog and in Cracking The Code. In Excel, as with any development, you want your solution to be as flexible and dynamic as possible. This … Continue reading Cooking With CUBEs

Introduction I was recently chatting with a friend, and he was asking how you can have dynamic ribbon buttons, buttons that are available depending upon worksheet events. I knocked up a simple example, and I thought I would share it here for anyone else who might be interested. It takes a few steps, but it is remarkably easy. The example has three buttons within a single group, on a custom tab. The first button can be hidden by changing a cell value (a data validation cell in this case), or have its visibility restored. The second does nothing, whilst the … Continue reading Who Says The Ribbon Is Hard?

Microsoft sneaked a couple of ne Introduction In my last blog post, I described how I thought that I could build an Excel 2007 ribbon on th fly. The technique was founded upon having a ‘worker’ addin that handled the main functionality as well as the version management and ribbon building; and a simpler Excel 2007 ribbon wrapper addin. This approach would be similar to the myriad of table driven menu solutions around, but the ‘table’ would be a configuration file in this case, to allow the user to control the menu/ribbon. The ‘worker’ addin would read the configuration file … Continue reading Ribbon On The Fly Part2

I recently needed to build an Excel addin that supported a variable number of options, with buttons to invoke the options. That in itself is not unusual, but I also wanted the numbers to be driven by the user; which always complicates matters. The definition of the buttons is simple, even allowing for the fact that it will be maintained by users. I could use a separate configuration workbook, an INI file, or even XML. As I am looking to make this a user driven facility, within an overall Excel framework, an Excel workbook seems the best option. For the … Continue reading Ribbon on the Fly, or the Zip