How to Stop Excel from Flickering during Macros
If you’ve ever written or recorded a macro in Excel, you’ve no doubt noticed that it shows everything on the screen you tell it to do. Depending on the code, Excel will show different cell locations or even different worksheets being selected during run time. Below I’m going to show you a line of VBA code that will not only eliminate those actions from being seen on the screen, but it will most likely increase the speed with which your macro runs.
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Using Text to Columns to Separate Data
This post can be seen as a follow up to an earlier post, Separate Full Name into First & Last Name. Excel provides a very easy to use tool to separate delimited data into multiple columns. All that delimited data means is that your data is separated into different sections by a character(s), usually a tab, comma, percentage sign, etc. The same can be done with a macro or group of formulas, but it really is easy and convenient to use this built-in feature.
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Macro to Disable Cell Calculations on a Sheet
If you’ve ever had a sheet in your project that has a number of formulas with calculations, you’ve no doubt noticed the slowdown that occurs when saving your spreadsheet or editing a formula. Excel has a property that can be adjusted within a macro that allows you to turn on and off the calculations on a spreadsheet.
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List Unique Values from a Range
Excel has an easy built-in way to show the unique values from a list of numbers you provide. You can use it to filter a unique list of numbers, dates, strings or whatever you need to have listed.
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How Do I Get Just the Last Word from a Cell?
This is an example of a question I recently received in the comment section of a post that I think others will find useful.
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