Monthly archives for September, 2007

Convert Text to Uppercase

Sep17
2007 2 Comments Written by admin

If you want to convert the text to uppercase, use the following code; however, I recommend downloading ASAP Utilities, it has many functionalities, including text conversion. It doesn’t offer source code though.

Here’s my code for uppercase conversion:
(If you want to convert your text to lowercase, replace Ucase with Lcase function in the code)

‘Will convert selected range to Upper case, using array
Sub Conv2UCase()
On Error GoTo Conv2UCase_Error

Dim vDataArr As Variant
Dim lUpperBndRow As Long, lUpperBndCol As Long
Dim lRow As Long, lCol As Long

‘store selected values in an array
vDataArr = Selection
‘get the upper bound of rows
lUpperBndRow = UBound(vDataArr, 1)
‘get the upper bound of cols
lUpperBndCol = UBound(vDataArr, 2)

‘Start a loop to go through all the elements of the array
For lRow = 1 To lUpperBndRow
    For lCol = 1 To lUpperBndCol
        ‘Check if the value is text, if not don’t convert
        If WorksheetFunction.IsText(vDataArr(lRow, lCol)) Then
            ‘Convert values to upper case
            vDataArr(lRow, lCol) = UCase(vDataArr(lRow, lCol))
        End If
    Next lCol
Next lRow
‘Return the converted values to the range
Selection = vDataArr
Exit Sub

Conv2UCase_Error:
    MsgBox “Error ” & Err.Number & ” (” & Err.Description & “) in Sub:Conv2UCase”
End Sub

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Excel Books

Sep06
2007 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Books on my shelf:
Professional Excel Development by Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey

This is by far the most authoritative book on Excel development from Add-ins to APIs. A word of caution though, it is not for the beginners.
Excel Advanced Report Development by Timothy Zapawa

Ever wondered on using Excel as a report development tool? This might be an answer to it; however, my problem with this book is that it focuses too much on pivottables, and because of that it doesn?t do justification to the name of the book. At any rate, this is very good book to exploit pivottable to its limits.
Excel 2007 Power Programming with VBA by John Walkenbach

Of course, it cannot happen that you talk about Excel books and don?t mention Mr. Spreadsheet himself. I am his fan on personal and professional level. On personal level, I love his blog, and on professional level, I like his lucid language in his books. I recommend reading his books and blog both.
Excel 2003 Formulas by John Walkenbach

You thought you knew formulas? Just read this book and you?ll realize, which I do almost every day, that there just so much about Excel that we don?t know. John uses simple language, and introduces the readers from basic to advanced formulas. How advance you might ask, well, here is an example, which uses a formula similar to this:
Excel 2007 Formulas by John Walkenbach
Books I have Read:
Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel by S. Christian Albright

I borrowed this book from the library. It is a very good for beginners.
Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA by John Walkenbach
Integrating Excel and Access by Michael Schmalz

I borrowed this book from the library too. Excellent reference on developing applications using Access, Excel, and VBA.
Mr Excel ON EXCEL by Bill Jelen

This is my first book I read on Excel, which is written by Bill Jelen aka Mr. Excel. Fantastic book. If you have begun knowing Excel just now, obtain a copy of this book right away. This is the right start for beginners. It uses very simple and clear language, and Bill provides great examples to make the learning useful.
Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel by Bill Jelen

I had an e-version of this book, but for some reason it’s not working anymore. I had chewed on this book a lot. It?s a great book for starters, especially, in data crunching.
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