Wow time is flying! Looks like my last post was in June! I built this example due to frustration. I was trying to find a way to look at and manipulate appointments in my Outlook calendar for a three month time span. The tool that I built, ultimately loaded the pulled outlook calendar items into a table. I decided not to include that part in this article as it is pretty … [Read more...] about Download Outlook Calendar VBA Example
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How to Find Fourth Thursday of November in VBA
I recently built a project where I had to count business days by excluding weekends and US Federal holidays. In my previous post: , my example used hard-coded dates. This new example can be adapted and re-coded to find the date of any specific weekday or holiday of the year without the need to hard-code. Public Function dThanksgiving(curDate As Date) As Date 'Define … [Read more...] about How to Find Fourth Thursday of November in VBA
Simple Mortgage Calculator Function | Excel, Access VBA
There are a lot of ways to calculate a mortgage payment in Excel. I honestly haven’t made any attempts to calculate a mortgage payment in Access using standard functions. There has to be a way, but for fun, I thought that I would share a simple function. To use this function, insert it into a module. For Excel, make sure you save your Excel document as a "Macro-Enabled" w … [Read more...] about Simple Mortgage Calculator Function | Excel, Access VBA
Set Appointment in Outlook With VBA in Access or Excel 2010, 2013
When writing automation for certain processes, it is sometimes important to set a follow-up reminder appointment for the next step. For this task, I wrote a very simple script that sets a reminder in Outlook. This script is super simple and can be improved several different ways. For simplicity sake, I decided to leave out the fancy "With" procedure and just use the object … [Read more...] about Set Appointment in Outlook With VBA in Access or Excel 2010, 2013
Why Don’t My Columns Add in Excel?
There are many ways an end user can run into this problem. One of the most common causes that I have seen is when pasting data. Enter the Datatype Sometimes when data is pasted, no matter if it is in a number format from the original source - it can be pasted as text or in string format. Strings are great, they can help display data in a wide variety ways, including numbers t … [Read more...] about Why Don’t My Columns Add in Excel?