My 100th publication here at Experts Exchange is an article that presents a program called ArticlesVideosEE, which is able to download the Title, Views, Endorsements, and Points for each article and video whose link is in a list. You may read the article here:

How to download number of Views, Endorsements, Points for Experts Exchange Articles and Videos

This video Micro Tutorial is a supplement to that article, providing a demonstration of the program.

1. Download and install AutoHotkey

If you do not already have AutoHotkey installed, read this EE article:

AutoHotkey - Getting Started

Follow the instructions in that article to download and install AutoHotkey.

2. Download the ArticlesVideosEE program

If you have not yet downloaded the ArticlesVideosEE program, read my EE article:

How to download number of Views, Endorsements, Points for Experts Exchange Articles and Videos

Download the ArticlesVideosEE program attached at the bottom of that article.

3. Create a plain text file with the URLs of your EE articles and videos

Following the instructions in my article, use Notepad (or whatever text editor you prefer) to create a file with the URL list (each article/video URL on a separate line).

4. Run the ArticlesVideosEE program

In Windows/File Explorer (or whatever file manager you use), double-click the ArticlesVideosEE.ahk file to run it.

The above works because a standard installation of AutoHotkey (done in Step #1) associates the .AHK file extension with the AutoHotkey program.

Respond to the Browse For Folder prompt to navigate to the folder where you want the Results file stored.

Respond to the Browse For File…

We are going on a deep dive to the foundation of data structure -- what is in the  design view of a table? What else you can do? Use a Unique Index to prevent duplicate values from being added. We discuss Ignore Nulls, the Primary Key, AutoNumber and its properties, create a Calculated field with an Expression to combine data from other fields, tracking fields for when records were added and edited, Field Names, reserved words, and tips for naming fields, and field properties like Data Type, and Size.

Here are the other videos in this series:

Shuffle - 1 - Examine Data (imported from Excel)
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/61034/Shuffle-1-Examine-Data-imported-from-Excel.html

Shuffle - 2 - Totals Query
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/61035/Shuffle-2-Totals-Query.html

Shuffle - 4 - Append Query
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/61037/Shuffle-4-Append-Query.html

Look up Problem names and reserved words in Access, by Allen Browne:
http://allenbrowne.com/AppIssueBadWord.html

1. In table design, you can use an AutoNumber for the primary key

in the Query Setup group of the Design ribbon tab

2. Don't use reserved words in field names

      or spaces or special characters
      except underscore (_) is okay.

3. Start field names with a letter

4. Ensure Data Type and Size are good.

5. Put key fields at the top

      and tracking fields at the bottom.

6. Define an Expression for calculated fields.

      Make text bigger in the Zoom Box (Shift-F2) by clicking the Font button.

7. Use Now() for the Default Value of tracking fields

      for when a record was added and edited.

8. Set a Unique Index to prevent duplicate values.

Examine data that was imported from Excel. Filter data in Access just like you do in Excel, for just what you want to see.
Turn on a totals row to sum columns. Best-fit columns and change column widths. See how a new AutoNumber value  is automatically assigned, and totals are changed, when a new record is created. Look up a customer code using a quick query.

Here are the other videos in this series:

Shuffle - 2 - Totals Query
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/61035/Shuffle-2-Totals-Query.html

Shuffle - 3 - Table Design
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/61036/Shuffle-3-Table-Design.html

Shuffle - 4 - Append Query
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/61037/Shuffle-4-Append-Query.html

Here is the video that shows how to do the import:

import an Excel spreadsheet into an Access database
https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/60914/import-an-Excel-spreadsheet-into-an-Access-database.html

1. Open a table in Datasheet view to look at information

2. Click the Filter dropdown at the top of a column to specify criteria for the rows displayed

3. Resize columns to be wider or narrower, double-click to best-fit

4. Add new records at the bottom

5. Look at each column and determine what type of object it is.

      There needs to be a table to describe each type of object.

Functions for replacing and substituting data in Microsoft Excel.

This video takes you through the steps to create dropdown validation menus in an excel spreadsheet.  For the purposes of the video, Microsoft Excel 2016 was used.

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.

Please Like, Comment, and Share with your friends ~

have an awesome day,
crystal

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

…

In a previous video Micro Tutorial here at Experts Exchange, I explained how to get a free, one-month trial of Office 365, which provides 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. The previous tutorial ended at the point of downloading the installer for the Office 2016 desktop modules for Windows. This new tutorial goes through the installation process for those applications.

1. Run the downloaded installer

Using Windows/File Explorer (or whatever file manager you prefer), locate the downloaded installer for the Office 2016 apps that are included as part of the Office 365 Home subscription. The name may vary depending on your operating system, but it will look something like this:

Setup.<lots of other characters here>.exe

Run it (usually, via a double-click, but that depends on your file manager and settings) and then click the "Run" button on the "Security Warning" dialog.

2. Accept the User Account Control dialog

Depending on your User Account Control (UAC) settings, you may or may not get the UAC dialog. If you do, click the "Yes" button.

3. Wait until all Office 2016 apps are installed

Although it says, "We'll be done in just a moment", grab a cup of coffee.

4. Check for the Office Tools shortcuts

Check to make sure that the installer created a "Microsoft Office 2016 Tools" program group, with two shortcuts in it.

5. Check for the Office shortcuts

Check to make sure that the installer created shortcuts for all of the Office 2016 apps. It does not…

This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate how marketers working with data will be able to use VLookups because it is the best technique to handle data sets.