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Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an event-driven programming language first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 to give Excel 5.0 a more robust object-oriented language for writing macros and automating the use of Excel. It is now used for the entire Office suite and over 200 non-Office hosts.

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Generating a tracker/workbook(and outlook email) that efficiently takes in 5 csv files via vba, what are my worst practices(areas of opportunity)?

It should be assumed that only the needed csv files are already available in the Downloads directory. I have only two modules and this first one is just an 'on open' starter to get the ball rolling(by ...
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Indexing into Nested Data Structures in VBA

Project I have created a VBA module called Idx which you may find here on GitHub. It is inspired by pluck() and ...
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Using Lightweight Objects in VBA

Lightweight Objects implementation in VBA7 (32/64-bit) As shown here, VB* class instance deallocation becomes exponentially slower the more instances of a particular class module there are. Cristian ...
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Counting the number of instances of a class module in VB*

In VBForums I found the following post: Is there a way of retrieving the number of instances of a VB* class from within the class itself? One could store an instance counter in a Public variable in a ...
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Collection Utilities for VBA

Background I am building a complex, standalone class. It has a property called .Mapping, which should behave like a Dictionary. ...
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Excel Bookkeeping Application, Create Ledgers from Chart of Accounts and Journal

I am writing an Excel bookkeeping application that would be suitable for a small business or contractor. The application is based on a book on double entry bookkeeping: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/...
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Faster VB6 / VBA class deallocation

For latest additions, see Edit sections at the bottom of this question. VB6 / VBA is slow to deallocate class instances VB* class instance deallocation becomes exponentially slower the more instances ...
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VBA: Efficiently Organise Data with Missing Values to Achieve Minimum Number of Tables

The task is to create sub-tables from an original table (like below) that contain the missing data columns (missing data is highlighted in red). The important part of this task is to make the smallest ...
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VBA code used to build a diverse portfolio of DFS lineups to minimize risk

This code works great and does exactly what I want but it takes around 10 minutes for the code for find 150 lineups. I am hoping to get help and learn how to make it much faster. The goal of this code ...
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Evaluating WinAPI, PowerQuery, PowerShell, and FileSystemObject for File Retrieval Using VBA

Traditionally, VBA developers rely on the FileSystemObject to retrieve files within a directory. I decided to test and compare different methods (Windows API, PowerQuery, PowerShell, and ...
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Search through all the sub-folders in a given folder for files

I use the below code to loop through a list of data and search through all the sub-folders in a given folder for files which match my requirements. Right now it takes this code about 22 minutes to run,...
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Simulating Objects with Collections in VBA

Update I have released a prototype (v0.1.0) of my SOb project, which is a generalized framework for easily simulating objects. Background I am writing a VBA module ...
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Speed up recursively looping through network folder and subfolders in VBA

I'm trying to loop through around 100k files in varying degrees of nested directories using vba and md5 hashing each of those files. Right now, the current state of the program takes around 1.5 to 2 ...
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Update Member "In Place" within VBA Collection

Background I encountered this issue a while back, where I tried to "set" the value of a member "in place", without changing its position within the ...
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Fluent VBA: Two (Almost Three) Years Later

Part 1 - A fluent unit testing framework in VBA: A fluent unit testing framework in VBA Part 2 - Fluent VBA: One Year Later: Fluent VBA: One Year Later Two (almost three) years have now passed since I ...
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