Just a quick post to let everyone kind enough to visit – my site address has now changed to www.andrewsexceltips.net (formerly www.andrewsexceltips.com).

I’ve been blogging for over 4 years now, and although I don’t post as often as I used to, I’m still cooking up new stuff to add.

Thanks to Dick and my other great Excel friends for their support and inspiration!

I use 2 computers at work. One has Excel 2003, the other has Excel 2007. I’ve been using the one with 2003 longer and had a few macros stored in my Personal workbook. I was in the process of copying and pasting them into the other computer after sending them there by email. (Yeah, I know I can install both Excel versions in the same computer but this is how things turned out and I find it handy for testing)

Anyway, I wondered how I was going to call them. I had the macros in the 2003 computer assigned to toolbar buttons with icons but how about 2007? I could use the QAT but realized the face ids were going to be different. Not such a big problem, but I didn’t feel like going through the drama of selecting a whole lot of new ones, not to mention updating personal workbooks for both computers every time I added any new code. So I came up with the below right click menu addin that I use for both computers on a shared drive.

Just paste or write any macro into the addin and update the menu by pushing “Make Right Click Menu”, either in the VBE or right click menu itself to add and save. The module names in the addin act as sub menu names and the macro names get added as menu items. Numbers get added to act as keyboard shortcuts.

Also, there is some code to add spaces to module and macro names so that Private Sub DeleteAllFilesInFolder() in module MiscellaneousMacros would show in the menu as DIY Context Menu – Miscellaneous Macros – 1. Delete All Files In Folder

It’s a dynamic menu and a pretty simple one to use. Here is the download link if you want to try it. Some example macros are also included. I think it should work with Excel versions 97 – 2007.

I have a few add-ins and files for download on my site, one of which I have recently been working quite a bit.

It’s my New Book Navigator addin and like the name says it helps you navigate around a workbook, as well as select, deselect and highlight cells.

The “New” part is to distinguish it from the previous version. Anyway, it’s evolved into a pretty good add-in over time (my opinion) and it does a lot of things you might find come in handy.

One of those things is what I call Quick Filter. It’s not a filter in the ordinary sense but unlike Excel’s inbuilt filters, it allows you to find and go to cells in both rows or columns, you can even use it to go to hidden cells without the need to unhide them.

Another thing is that you can see what range is selected at any time and copy that range if desired to the clipboard. The range details can also changed to show as Absolute or Relative, A1 or R1C1 references. The default setting is to update the toolbar as you select ranges automatically but you set this to Manual in the Options settings if you want to avoid the screen from flickering when running code. Details of this and all of the other features are described in both the read me files and Help files.

My download page is here. I hope you find New Book Navigator and my other stuff useful.