aikimark
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Strongest Topic expertise: Visual Basic, SQL, Access, Excel, Word, Delphi, Regular Expressions

Founded RTP Delphi Interest Group in NC. and Triangle Microsoft Office User Group

Late 70s: Mainframe application (COBOL & stats) programming

80s: IMS/DB2/CICS/OS Systems Programer

90s-present: Software Instructor, Consultant, Designer, Developer (multiple platforms)

Aikido Sandan (30+ years on the mat)

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My EE Articles:
Passing lists and complex data through a parameter: http://rdsrc.us/sgZipE
Introduction to Casting: http://rdsrc.us/R75zHv
The Case for Case-Insensitive modules: http://rdsrc.us/y9FcIj
Fast Data Push to Excel:  http://rdsrc.us/7DFcOz
Next Iteration functionality in VB classic and VBA: http://rdsrc.us/VCFFaB
Creating and Using a Tally Table in Access:  http://rdsrc.us/qdvFBK
Object Existence:  http://rdsrc.us/kl9Sev
A Better Concatenate Function: http://rdsrc.us/GOGGgl
Fast String Concatenate Class: http://rdsrc.us/aRXoax
Simulating VB Controls in VBA Code: http://rdsrc.us/t8mkbx
Class Item Filtering Via Dynamic Scripting: http://rdsrc.us/nE1nPU
An Examination of Visual Basic's Random Number Generation: http://rdsrc.us/fErAk9
Iterating Office Enumeration Constants: http://rdsrc.us/aJCZPr
RichText to Text conversion -- fast and free: http://rdsrc.us/TfJBX8
Range Iteration: http://rdsrc.us/WvwKly
Big Choices -- Dynamic columns with A Better Choose function: http://rdsrc.us/AyrEND
Array and Split performance comparison: http://rdsrc.us/i0dpba
Efficient String Clean up Removing Internal Duplicate Spaces: http://rdsrc.us/ipF4nT
Google Calendar removing SMS alerts -- What to do: http://rdsrc.us/qfQtvv

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