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The Power of Dynamic Drop Down Lists in Excel: Streamlining Data Entry and Analysis
Discover three types of dynamic drop-down lists in Excel, and how to create them.

Kimberlee Martin
Nov 13, 20233 min read


VB Script vs. VBA
VB Script and VBA are two different things - do you know which is which? What will happen now that VB Script is deprecated?

Kimberlee Martin
Nov 2, 20233 min read


Your Best Three
Three ways to see your Top 3 <<things>> in Excel using conditional formatting, the RANK function, and Pivot Table filters.

Kimberlee Martin
Oct 20, 20233 min read


Three Reasons to use Named Ranges in Excel
Here are 3 good reasons to use named ranges in Excel.

Kimberlee Martin
Oct 17, 20234 min read


Excel Stopwatch
Create a stopwatch on your Excel worksheet to track hours, minutes or seconds for your task.

Kimberlee Martin
Sep 28, 20236 min read


Detecting #N/A with VBA
Using VBA code to check for #N/A in an Excel cell. The CVErr function allows you to check for several of the "#" errors in Excel.

Kimberlee Martin
Sep 19, 20233 min read


BEEP! An Audible Alarm in Excel
Create an audible alarm in Excel that beeps when a timer expires.

Kimberlee Martin
Sep 14, 20233 min read


Scheduling Excel Macros with a Timer
A while back, I wrote about creating a timer in Excel. In that post, I went into detail about my failed attempts to create one, and how I...

Kimberlee Martin
Aug 8, 20234 min read


Connection Properties
Use properties of Excel connections to gain access to real-time data points in your database.

Kimberlee Martin
Mar 29, 20235 min read


Connecting Data Sources in Excel
Using VLOOKUP data from Access and SQL Server databases

Kimberlee Martin
Mar 8, 20234 min read


Connections: Bringing SQL Server data into Excel
Add a link to SQL server data to your Excel worksheet.

Kimberlee Martin
Jan 20, 20234 min read


VBA Dates
Excel and MS Access store dates as numeric fields, allowing for each calculations in VBA.

Kimberlee Martin
Jan 11, 20234 min read


Connections: Bringing Access Data into Excel
Creating links to Microsoft Access data in your Excel worksheet.

Kimberlee Martin
Jan 9, 20234 min read


Connections: Bringing Excel Data into Access
Create a Microsoft Access table that is linked to an Excel file.

Kimberlee Martin
Jan 5, 20236 min read


VBA: Three Ways to Handle Text in Numeric Fields
Users will make mistakes, and some of those will impact your VBA code. Here are three ways you can handle that.

Kimberlee Martin
Jan 3, 20235 min read


Connections: Importing CSV Data from your Software Package into Excel
Use Excel tools to report and analyze data in your software package. This post examines the process of importing a CSV or TXT file.

Kimberlee Martin
Dec 27, 20225 min read


Using Access to Clean Excel Data, Part 5
I’ve been covering the use of Microsoft Access tools to clean your Excel data for the past few weeks. Today is the final entry in that...

Kimberlee Martin
Dec 22, 20223 min read


Doubles, but No Troubles
Use VBA to check for nearly identical data in your Excel worksheet.

Kimberlee Martin
Dec 19, 20224 min read


Double Trouble
Today we’ll be looking at preventing duplicate values from being entered into your Excel sheet. This is the final entry in a series that...

Kimberlee Martin
Dec 16, 20224 min read


Using Access to Clean Excel Data, Part 4
Use MS Access to find duplicates in your Excel data

Kimberlee Martin
Dec 12, 20226 min read
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