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How to Forces a Full Calculation All Open Workbooks in VBA (“F9”)

Forces a full calculation of the data in all open workbooks. Syntax Application.CalculateFull Also, see below for similar methods Calculate calculates only new, changed and volatile formulas. CalculateFull calculates all formulas regardless. As a general rule, this will therefore be slower. CalculateFullRebuild calculates all formulas and rebuilds the entire calculation dependency tree. This will be the slowest of all. Examples Read More

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How to Create a Drop-Down List in Excel

You can help people work more efficiently in worksheets by using drop-down lists in cells. Drop-downs allow people to pick an item from a list that you create. In a new worksheet, type the entries you want to appear in your drop-down list. Ideally, you’ll have your list items in an Excel table. If you don’t, Read More

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How To Count The Number Of Weekends/Weekdays Between Two Dates In Excel?

Sometimes, we need to know how many specific weekdays between two dates. For example, I have two dates: the start date is 1/1/2014 and the end date is 2/15/2014, now I want to know how many times a Sunday or a Monday or a Tuesday etc occurs in this duration. Maybe this is somewhat difficult Read More

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Excel VBA – How to Turn Automatic Calculations Off (or On)

Whenever you update a cell, Excel goes through a process to recalculate the workbook. When working directly within Excel you want this to happen 99.9% of the time (the exception being if you are working with an extremely large workbook). However, this can really slow down your VBA code. It’s a good practice to set Read More