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Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out
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Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out

by Curtis Frye, Wayne S. Freeze, Felicia K. Buckingham
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
17h 59m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 9. Manipulating Data with VBA

When you’re given a workbook filled with data, you’re going to want to ask questions about the data. What is the sum of the sales for a day? Or a month? Or a year? How much time elapsed between a customer’s orders? And is the data you’re about to write to a text file in the proper format to be read into a database? You can answer all of these questions, and many more, using the text, number, and date/time processing functions available to you in Excel VBA.

In this chapter, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Prepare text strings for processing.

  • Concatenate, find, and modify strings.

  • Perform summary calculations on numerical data.

  • Make financial ...

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