Enter Foreign and Special Characters

Enter characters you can't find on a keyboard using its ASCII code ... and learn how to make a handy reference for yourself using Excel ~

Use these codes in any Windows application! ... whether it is a Microsoft Office product like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access,... or a simple program like NotePad.

Along these lines, I've written a tool to make it easier to input and lookup Unicode when you are in Access, and am making another video on Unicode - so be on the lookout for it.

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1. To insert a special character, make sure Num Lock is on

2. Hold down the ALT key

3. Type the ASCII code on the numeric keypad

4. Release the ALT key

Finds all prime numbers in a range requested and places them in a public primes() array. I've demostrated a template size of 30 (2 * 3 * 5) but larger templates can be built such 210  (2 * 3 * 5 * 7) or 2310  (2 * 3 * 5 * 7 * 11).
The larger templates are marginally faster (4 - 6%) but at great expense: 100's or 1000's of lines of code.  

The macro assigned to my "Find Primes" button is listed below:

Option Explicit

Public i As Long
Public j As Long
Public estr As Double    
Public esti As Long              ' used with estr to estimate the size of the primes array
Public iend As Long            ' user input - program will enumerate all prime <= iend
Public sr As Long                 ' square root of iend
Public PrX() As Boolean      ' Templated Possible Primes
Public Primes() As Long      ' # Primes <= iend

Sub DefinePrimes()

With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")   ' rename the sheet if needed
  iend = .Cells(1, 5)
  If iend < 40 Then
    iend = 40
  End If
 
  estr = 1 / (WorksheetFunction.Ln(iend) - 1.15)
  esti = Int(estr * iend)
ReDim PrX(iend + 30)           ' we always want to have a little extra space
ReDim Primes(esti)               ' we always want to have a little extra space
  sr = Sqr(iend)
  .Cells(1, 4) = "Find Primes <= "
  .Cells(1, 5) = iend
  .Cells(2, 4) = "estr ="
  .Cells(2, 5) = estr
  .Cells(3, 4) = "esti ="
  .Cells(3, 5) = esti
  .Cells(4, 4) = "sr ="
  .Cells(4, 5) = sr
  PrX(2) = True
  PrX(3) = True
 …

Many functions in Excel can make decisions. The most simple of these is the IF function: it returns a value depending on whether a condition you describe is true or false. Once you get the hang of using the IF function, you will find it easier to use Excel's many other decision-making functions.
When to use the IF function

Use the IF function when you want the value of a cell to depend on a condition. The condition is typically the value of another cell or of a value you input. If the condition you choose is a cell value, the cell can be on the same worksheet, a different worksheet, or even a different workbook.

Here's a simple example:
Let's say cell B3 displays a total sale amount. If that amount is greater than $100, you want cell B4 to show a discount rate of 10%. But if B3 is not over $100, you want the discount to be zero.

Here's the syntax of the IF function:
=IF (condition, value if true, value if false)

Note that in the function, there are three arguments. In Excel and many programming languages, the arguments a function gets are separated with commas.

So we write out the function as follows:
=IF(B3>100,10%,0)

Translating Excel into English, this means:
Evaluate the statement that B3>100. Is this true or false?
If it's true, the cell gets a value of 10%.
If it's false, the cell gets a value of 0.

This formula goes inside cell B4. So depending on whether B3 is under or over 100, B4 will adjust to either 0 or 10%.

Now let's put this…

This Experts Exchange video Micro Tutorial shows how to tell Microsoft Office that a word is NOT spelled correctly. Microsoft Office has a built-in, main dictionary that is shared by Office apps, including Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. When an Office module, such as MS Word, gives us the red squiggly underline signifying a misspelled word, yet it really is spelled correctly (such as a proper noun), we're all familiar with how to add it to the custom dictionary, that is, simply right-click the word and select Add to Dictionary. But suppose we type in a word that does not get the red squiggly underline, that is, Word thinks it is spelled correctly, yet we do not like that spelling, and we want Word (and other Office apps) to flag it as a misspelling. This video explains a Microsoft supported technique for achieving that.

1. Locate the ExcludeDictionary file

Exit all Office apps.

Using Windows/File Explorer (or whatever file manager you prefer), navigate to this file:

c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex

Of course, <username> is your user name (in my video, it is Joe). The exact name of the file will vary depending on your language and Office version, but it will begin with ExcludeDictionary and have a LEX file extension.

2. Open the ExcludeDictionary file

Using Notepad (or whatever plain text editor you prefer), open the ExcludeDictionary file, which will be empty the first time you open it. If you do a File>Open, make sure that All Files is selected, since it is a LEX…

This Experts Exchange lesson shows how to use VBA to loop through rows in Excel.  In order to sort, filter, and use database features, there needs to be a value in each column for every row. When data arrives with values missing, code to copy values where it is blank can be run.

This lesson shows the manual process to fill blanks, and the VBA code to implement it.

This is Part 2 in a 3-part series to discuss error handling in Excel.

Part 3 of this series will add errors to the code and then show how to fix them.  Part 1 of this Experts Exchange series suggested basic error handling code.

01. Set up the error handler

   At the top of the code for your procedure, the error handler is set up using     On Error GoTo Proc_Err

02. Dimension Variables

   Declare variable names and data types that will be used in this procedure.

03. Initialize Variables

   Initialize the values of variables that will be used in this procedure.

04. Calculate Variables

   Calculate the values of variables that be determined.

05. Give User a Chance to Back Out

   Issue a message box to the user and allow them to stop the process.

06. Determine the Last Row

   Determine the last row on the worksheet that needs to be written to.

07. Loop through each Row of Data and Save or Write Value

   Loop through each row and either save the value that is there, or write the last value saved if a value is needed.

08. Continue Looping until Done

   Continue looping until all values in the specified column are written.

09. Exit Code

   After the procedure code, a line label for the exit code (Proc_Exit: ) is used to signify what happens at the end of the procedure. This is code to gracefully exit.

10. Error Handling Code

…

This lesson covers basic error handling code in Microsoft Excel using VBA. This is the first lesson in a 3-part series that uses code to loop through an Excel spreadsheet in VBA and then fix errors, taking advantage of error handling code.

This lesson, Part 1, is the basics.  Whether you are writing VBA for Excel, Access, Word, or another Microsoft Office application,  basic error handling is the same.

01. Set up the error handler

   At the top of the code for your procedure, the error handler is set up using     On Error GoTo Proc_Err

02. Exit Code

   After whatever your procedure does, a line label for the exit code (such as Proc_Exit: ) is used to signify what happens at the end of the procedure. This can be code to cleanup object variables, or simply code to gracefully exit.

03. Error Handling Code

   After the exit code, a line label for the error handling code (such as Proc_Err: ) is used to begin what happens if there is an error.
Books_START_ErrorHandling_CopyDownB.xlsm
Books_ErrorHandling_CopyDownBlanks_.xlsm

Office 365 is currently available in five editions. Three of them are for business use: Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business, and Office 365 Business Premium. Two of them are for home/personal use: Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal. However, only one of them offers a free trial — Office 365 Home. This Experts Exchange video Micro Tutorial explains how to go through the process of obtaining the free, one-month trial for Office 365 Home, which includes the desktop versions of Office 2016. For Windows, this includes Access 2016, Excel 2016, OneNote 2016, Outlook 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Publisher 2016, and Word 2016, as well as Microsoft OneDrive. In a subsequent EE video Micro Tutorial, I show how to install the downloaded desktop versions of those Office 2016 modules in a Windows 7 system.

1. Visit the website for Office 365 Home

Visit the site with the only Office 365 edition that currently offers a free trial:
https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-microsoft-office-products

2. Request free trial

Click the "Try for free" button.

Click the "Try 1-month free" button.

3. Sign into your Microsoft account

Enter your email or phone for your Microsoft account, your password, and click the "Sign in" button.

4. Go through the payment process

Even though it is a free trial, you must provide a payment method and go through the payment process. So be prepared with a credit/debit card or a bank account or PayPal. If you are unwilling to provide a payment method, you cannot get the free trial.

5. Go through the install process

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This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate how to create pivot charts out of a data set. I also added a drop-down menu which allows to choose from different categories in the data set and the chart will automatically update.

This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate how to use a scrolling table in Microsoft Excel using the INDEX function.

This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate three uses of OFFSET function for marketing data. This includes dynamic validation, creating named ranges for dynamic charts, and formatting Google Analytic data.

This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate three marketing uses for the INDEX function.

This Micro Tutorial demonstrates how and when in alternative to VLOOKUP, use INDEX MATCH.

This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate how to use advanced filters in Microsoft Excel. These filters are commonly used in real-world client projects for a reporting dashboard.