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EXCEL AND VBA RESOURCES

In alphabetical order:
1. Andrew Engwirda, Excel MVP, runs his site by his own name, Andrews Excel
Tips, anadvanced Excel and Visual Basic wiki, blog, and repository
for advanced utility downloads.
2. Andy Pope is another Excel MVP running a site with his own name (trend
developing here) with Visual Basic, advanced charting, and links to newsgroup
forums conversations (yes they still exist).
3. Another Excel MVP, Rob Bovey, runs AppsPro, which has a handful of
free Visual Basic utilities.
4. Clearly and Simply is a blog that showcases advanced data
analysis techniques. Case studies come with template downloads and often use
real data.
5. Get into business intelligence analysis with Chris Webs BI Blog.

Clearly and Simply is a sight that focuses on advanced data analysis and
data visualization.
6. Data Driven is all about exposing current trends using advanced
analytics, dashboardtools, and has some pretty cool looking charts in its blog.
7. Data Nitro is an add-in that supercharges Excel with Python. Free for personal
use.
8. Daily Dose of Excel, by MVP Dick Kusleika, is the mother of all Excel blogs. It
features mostly Visual Basic and Ribbon customization script commentary.
9. DataPig is a consulting and training company run by MVP, Michael Alexander.
He has a few free webinars and a decent blog with alot of information
about advanced data analysis and pivot tables.

Daily Dose of Excel is the mother of all advanced Excel sites but its not for
the faint of heart and focused mostly on Excel programming.
11. DigDB ($79/year) is an advanced data analysis and manipulation add-in and
has many pivot table related features. PC, 2007,10.
12. For advanced 3D charting check out Dplot ($195, free trial available). PC,
Multiple Editions.
13. Check out the Discuss Excel Blog, from MVP Ayush Jain, for advanced Excel
and Visual Basic commentary. He also runs the Expert Excel Google Group.
14. Get together with other Excel nerds, geeks, and more importantly experts
atExcelapolozza, the Excel User Conference.
15. For tough questions go to Excel Banter, an advanced Excel forum.

Learn advanced excel and meet other Excel enthusiasts at Excelapalooza,


the Excel conference
16. Interested in advanced charts and data visualization. Then check out Excel
Charts. They also offer a couple of paid courses ($72.25) in creating dashboards.
17. Using Excel Easys comprehensive VBA tutorials, learn about dialog boxes,
objects, variables, if-then statements, looping, and more.
18. Want to know about the new PowerPivot add-in? Check out Excel Dos, Dynamic
Doesfrom MVP, Bob Phillips.
19. Go to the Excel Forum for answers to one off questions.
20. For information on customizing the Excel Ribbon, check out Excel
Guru from MVP Ken Puls.
21. Excel Hero, from MVP Ed Ferry, has all things advanced Excel,
including dashboards,pivot tables, Visual Basic, and even a paid online
course ($499).

Excel Hero Academy is one of the few courses available in advanced Excel
techniques.

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22. Lots of Visual Basic case studies and downloads are available at MVP Ashish
KoulsExcel VBA Codes & Macros.
23. Excel User, from MVP Charley Kyd, has lots of visually
stunning dashboards and add-inswith practical business applications ($).
24. Doing numerical computing in MATLAB? Then check out this MATLAB
Builder plug-in for Excel.
25. Methods In Excel from yet another Excel MVP, Ross Mclean, is a good Visual
Basic blog.
26. NodeXL is a free open source template for exploring network graphs. Sounds
simple enough but this for advanced statistics and allows you to create some
crazy lookingvisual graphs.
27. Looking to master the new PowerPivot? Then check Power Pivot Pro from
formerMicrosoft Employees, Rob Collie and Kasper de Jonge. These guys
literally wrote the book on the subject!

PowerPivot is the newest addition to Excel and PowerPivot Pro is the premier
resource on this must have advanced analysis add-in.
28. Have more questions about PowerPivots? Check out The Great PowerPivot
FAQ.
29. Excel MVP, John Karel Pieterse, hosts a number of articles on Visual
Basic, advanced charting, as well as some advanced utility downloads on
his company website.
30. One Stop Analytics is all about advanced analytics using Excel.
31. For chatter with other Excel experts check out the OzGrids forum.
32. Chip Pearson, is an Excel MVP, that has an advanced Excel/Visual Basic wiki
and hosts a number of utility add-ins through his company site.

Just like regular programmers, Excel Programmers also hang out in forums to
find answers to their questions.
33. John Peltier, Excel MVP is an advanced charting expert and has great blog on
the subject as well as many charting add-ins on his consulting site.
34. While the word Excel is conspicuously missing from Perceptual Edges website it
is a great repository for information on advanced data analysis and graph
design.
35. RExel is the add-in associated with the R Project, an advanced statistical
analysis andprogramming language. PC, Multiple Editions.
36. MVP Ron de Bruins, Excel Automation, hosts a number of Visual Basic tips and
utilities. He is also the only resource on this list that does so for Excel for Mac.

Want to use Excel for statistical computing? Then check out the RExcel addin.
38. Smurph on Spreadsheets, is a blog from Excel MVP, Simon Murphy, and has a
lot ofVisual Basic focused content. He is also active in the UK Excel User
Conference.
39. Treeplan (starts at $59, freeware and trial available) is a statistical analysis and
decision tree add-in.
40. The Spreadsheet Page by MVP John Walkenbach is a mega resource that starts
with intermediate excel but goes all the way to Visual Basic.
41. The Trouble With Data is a blog about business intelligence.
42. Excel MVP Tushar Mehta hosts Excel and Visual Basic tips and tutorials as well
as utility add-ins.
43. Newton Excel Bach by Doug Jenkins is an excel blog for engineers and
scientists. Hes got over 120 downloads that are worth a look!

VBA Express has a ton of information on VBA and advanced Excel.


45. Two more sites that are all Visual Basic, all the time are Visual Basic
Explorer and Visual Basic Users
46. XLDennis is a blog from Excel MVP Dennis Wallentin that focuses
on VSTO and .NET in use in Excel.

Training / Books / Sites as of 06/10/2012


MrExcel's Products: Books, CDs, Podcasts Discuss topics related to Holy Macro! Products:
Learn Excel from MrExcel, VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel,Holy Macro! It's 2500 VBA
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and the MrExcel Podcasts.
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=19
There are over 1800 Excel videos/tutorials here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ExcelIsFun
Getting Started with VBA.
http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/ExcelMain.htm
If you are serious about learning VBA try
http://www.add-ins.com/vbhelp.htm
Excel Tutorials and Tips - VBA - macros - training
http://www.mrexcel.com/articles.shtml
Here's a good primer on the scope of variables.
Scope Of Variables And Procedures
See David McRitchie's site if you just started with VBA
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm
What is a Visual Basic Module?
http://www.emagenit.com/VBA%20Folder...vba_module.htm
Ron de Bruin's intro to macros:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/code.htm
Creating An XLA Add-In For Excel, Writing User Defined Functions In VBA
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/createaddin.aspx
How do I create a PERSONAL.XLS(B) or Add-in
http://www.rondebruin.nl/personal.htm
Creating custom functions
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...117011033.aspx
Writing Your First VBA Function in Excel
http://www.exceltip.com/st/Writing_Y...Excel/631.html
VBA for Excel (Macros)
http://www.excel-vba.com/excel-vba-contents.htm

VBA Lesson 11: VBA Code General Tips and General Vocabulary
http://www.excel-vba.com/vba-code-2-1-tips.htm
Excel VBA -- Adding Code to a Workbook
http://www.contextures.com/xlvba01.html
Learn to debug:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/debug.htm
How To: Assign a Macro to a Button or Shape
http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how...tton-or-shape/
User Form Creation
http://www.contextures.com/xlUserForm01.html
When To Use a UserForm & What to Use a UserForm For
http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/free-tra...ba2lesson2.htm
Excel Tutorials / Video Tutorials - Functions
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions02.html
INDEX MATCH - Excel Index Function and Excel Match Function
http://www.contextures.com/xlFunctions03.html
Excel Data Validation
http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal08.html#Larger
http://www.contextures.com/excel-dat...ation-add.html
Your Quick Reference to Microsoft Excel Solutions
http://www.xl-central.com/index.html
New! Excel Recorded Webinars
http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/ExcelMain.htm
Programming The VBA Editor - Created by Chip Pearson at Pearson Software Consulting LLC
This page describes how to write code that modifies or reads other VBA code.
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/vbe.aspx
VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel, by Bill Jelen "Mr.Excel" and Tracy Syrstad
Excel Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, by David & Traina Hawley
VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel 2007, by Bill Jelen "Mr.Excel" and Tracy Syrstad
Excel 2007 Book: you can try this...there is a try before you buy ebook available at this

link
by Stephen/ Bovey, Rob/ Green, John Bullen (Paperback - Feb 11, 2005)
Professional Excel Development
by Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, John Green, and Robert Rosenberg (Paperback - Sep 26,
2001)
Excel 2002 VBA: Programmers Reference
DonkeyOte: My Recommended Reading, Volatility
http://www.decisionmodels.com/calcsecretsi.htm
Sumproduct
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html
Arrays
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=296012
http://www.vbtutor.net/vba/vba_chp21.htm
Pivot Intro
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Pivots/pivotstart.htm
Email from XL - VBA
http://www.rondebruin.nl/sendmail.htm
Outlook VBA
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=40
Function Dictionary
http://www.xlfdic.com/
Function Translations
http://www.piuha.fi/excel-function-name-translation/
Dynamic Named Ranges
http://www.contextures.com/xlNames01.html
How to create Excel Dashboards
http://www.mrexcel.com/Excel-dashboards-Xcelsius.html
http://www.contextures.com/excel-dashboards.html
http://chandoo.org/wp/excel-dashboards/
http://chandoo.org/wp/management-dashboards-excel/
http://www.exceldashboardwidgets.com/
http://www.andypope.info/charts/gauge.htm
Excel Dashboard / Scorecard Ebook

http://www.qimacros.com/excel-dashboard-scorecard.html
Mike Alexander from Data Pig Technologies
Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies
Templates
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Topic.aspx
http://www.contextures.com/excel-tem...lf-scores.html
http://www.ozgrid.com/search/templates.htm
Microsoft Excel Cascading Listboxes Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAMvLJRwZdI
Date & Time stamping:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/timestamp.html
Get Formula / Formats thru custom functions:
http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/excel/formula.htm#GetFormat
A nice informative MS article "Improving Performance in Excel 2007"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730921.aspx
Progress Meters
http://www.andypope.info/vba/pmeter.htm
http://www.xcelfiles.com/ProgressBar.html
And, as your skills increase, try answering posts on sites like:
http://www.mrexcel.com
http://www.excelforum.com
http://www.ozgrid.com
http://www.vbaexpress.com
http://www.excelfox.com

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