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	<description>Hundreds of Excel Tips &#38; Tricks</description>
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		<title>Excel 2010 Beta Released</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2009/12/21/excel-2010-beta-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excel 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office beta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month Microsoft released the beta version of Office 2010. The new version includes new versions of all the classics: Word, Powerpoint, Sharepoint and our favorite, Excel 2010!
Here is a short video from Microsoft about the new changes:
See What&#8217;s New in Microsoft Excel 2010
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		<title>Excel Conditional Formatting</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2009/02/27/excel-conditional-formatting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formatting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell formatting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conditional formatting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excel has a strong and often missed feature, called Conditional Formatting, which allows you to format a cell depending on a rule [it's value]. This can be very useful for worksheets like Product Quantities and Dates. Let me show you what I mean.
Lets start off with a simple chart of products quantities in the warehouse.

We&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA Routine to Sort Sheets</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/05/vba-routine-to-sort-sheets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/05/vba-routine-to-sort-sheets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Worksheets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[routine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sort sheets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following routine will sort the sheets in a workbook alphabetically. The flag “Sort_Mode_Descending” can be switched between descending and ascending as required. The routine is case INSENSITIVE.
Sub Sort_Sheets()
Dim Sort_Mode_Descending As Boolean
Dim No_of_Sheets As Integer
Dim Outer_Loop As Integer
Dim Inner_Loop As Integer
No_of_Sheets = Sheets.Count
'Change Flag As appropriate
Sort_Mode_Descending = False
For Outer_Loop = 1 To No_of_Sheets
   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA Routine to return Column Letter of Cell</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/04/vba-routine-to-return-column-letter-of-cell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/04/vba-routine-to-return-column-letter-of-cell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cells, Columns & Rows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[routine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The standard Excel “Column” Function returns the number rather than the letter of the column e.g:
Column(E4) – returns the number 5 rather than the letter E
Column(AD12) returns the number 30 rather than AD.
The following function returns the letter rather than the number of the column. So in the above two examples we have the letters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: Extract Number From String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/03/vba-extract-number-from-string/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/03/vba-extract-number-from-string/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[string]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following function will extract the numerical portion from a string:
Function Extract_Number_from_Text(Phrase As String) As Double
Dim Length_of_String As Integer
Dim Current_Pos As Integer
Dim Temp As String
Length_of_String = Len(Phrase)
Temp = ""
For Current_Pos = 1 To Length_of_String
If (Mid(Phrase, Current_Pos, 1) = "-") Then
  Temp = Temp &#38; Mid(Phrase, Current_Pos, 1)
End If
If (Mid(Phrase, Current_Pos, 1) = ".") Then
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find the nth Word in a String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/31/find-the-nth-word-in-a-string/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/31/find-the-nth-word-in-a-string/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[find]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[string]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following function will find the nth word in a string:
Function Find_nth_word(Phrase As String, n As Integer) As String
Dim Current_Pos As Long
Dim Length_of_String As Integer
Dim Current_Word_No As Integer
Find_nth_word = ""
Current_Word_No = 1
'Remove Leading Spaces
Phrase = Trim(Phrase)
Length_of_String = Len(Phrase)
For Current_Pos = 1 To Length_of_String
    If (Current_Word_No = n) Then
     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding and Naming Sheets to Excel Workbook</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/28/adding-and-naming-sheets-to-excel-workbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/28/adding-and-naming-sheets-to-excel-workbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naming sheets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workbook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following code works opening a workbook. It automatically adds a new sheet and labels it with the date. It also checks to see that the sheet doesn’t already exist – to allow for the possibility of it being opened more than once a day.
This code makes use of the Workbook Open Event and must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding and Saving Workbooks</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/27/adding-and-saving-workbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/27/adding-and-saving-workbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workbook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following code will prompt the user for the name of a workbook. It will then create and save a new
workbook with the same name.
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim Workbook_Name As String
Dim New_Workbook As Workbook
Set New_Workbook = Nothing
Workbook_Name = InputBox(Prompt:="Workbook Name.", Title:="Enter the WorkBook Name :")
Set New_Workbook = Workbooks.Add
With New_Workbook
.Activate
.SaveAs Workbook_Name
End With

End Sub
To download the .XLSM file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA Function to Show Cell Formula</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/24/vba-function-to-show-cell-formula/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/24/vba-function-to-show-cell-formula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cells, Columns & Rows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[udf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following UDF will return the formulae for a given cell reference:
Function Show_Cell_Formulae(Cell As Range) As String
    Show_Cell_Formulae = "Cell " &#38; Cell.Address &#38; " has the formulae : ' " &#38; Cell.Formula &#38; " '"
End Function
So if we have:

Where the cell B7 has the formulae : ‘=MAX(B5:G5) then we can type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matching Multiple Items</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/22/matching-multiple-items/</link>
		<comments>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/22/matching-multiple-items/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Formulas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isnumber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[match]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that we have the following 2 lists each consisting of 3 columns of data:

And we need to find those items that are in List 1 that are in List 2. However ALL 3 columns of data must match for items to be in both lists. One way would be to construct a comprehensive IF [...]]]></description>
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