Filters are a very useful functionality that enables us to filter content in the table or area above which the autofilter was previously used based on a given criterion. This can be accomplished in many ways, but there is always an event that we are launching to perform the action. In this “recipe” you will learn how to filter the table with the help of previously prepared, combo lists.
Colors help us to emphasize the contents of the worksheet, and the VBA allows you to do so through the code. You can change the colors of the font, background or cell border. This can be done in several ways: by specifying a VBA constant representing color, by typing a color code or by specifying a RGB color combination using the same name function …
Comments in Excel are a convenient way to leave notes about the results of the calculations you made or otherwise explain your work within the worksheet. VBA allows you to easily add and delete comments. The following text will describe how to create programs by which you add or delete comments from within an active cell.
In several previous “recipes” I wrote about how to connect to Microsoft SQL Server from Excel in order to retrieve data to a worksheet. These were all “innocent” operations, since you could only read the data from the database, not to change them. Sometimes it is necessary to create a program that performs more complex manipulation over the database by running appropriate SQL query, which will be discussed in the text that follows.
The VBA language can use two types of functions: those inherent to it and functions that already exist in Excel. Although VBA has a large number of functions in Excel there are even more of them. And since we don’t want, as the saying goes, to „invent the hot water“ it’s often better to use one of the existing functions to finish the job. This is accomplished using the Application.WorksheetFunction method that allows us to call any available Excel function.