Picking the date

When picking the dates in Excel documents, you may accidentaly make a mistake. The ideal way to avoid this is to use the Date Picker tool. For now, there is no simple solution within the application itself that can be used for this purpose, but there is a simple add-in available that can help with the date selection process.

Office Scripts

For years, Microsoft has been trying to replace VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language that “lives” in the background of Excel. As they say, the reasons are of a security nature. This is not entirely without merit, but it seems to me that the motive of the Excel development team, to a greater extent, was to create scripts that would fit better into the Microsoft 365 and Power Platform ecosystem. Whether they succeeded in this is up to you to try.

VBA macros are going to history?

Some time ago, a client contacted me complaining that he could not open the report I sent him because it was blocked by the operating system. Indeed, I recently read a rumor that Microsoft plans to replace VBA with TypeScript macros in the recent future because they pose a security threat. It means that all files containing VBA code, downloaded from the Internet, are now blocked. How to solve this problem?

Go To Special

Go To Special is a somewhat neglected, but sometimes very useful option that allows us to position ourselves in individual places in an Excel table according to their properties. These can be empty rows, formulas, precedents, dependents, cells with data validation, etc. In this text, you will learn how to start this option, and you will also see two examples of its application in practice.

Adding empty rows

How to add an empty row after each row of data in a table? This procedure is often necessary so that we can comment on reports that need to be printed. It can be achieved in several ways and one of the simplest is by usint the Sort option. In this text, you will learn how to perform this action.