MS Excel currency converter - Number to words Latest version

MS Excel currency converter 3.0 has been updated with bug fixes.

This is the new version of my amazing currency converter VBA utility for MS Excel. The macro will convert the currency number which is in number to text. For example, Rs. 14,250 is a common standard to represent the money of Indian Rupees Fourteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty. This VBA code takes the input as 14250 and prints as 'Fourteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty'.

It can be used in writing cheques, generating financial reports, MIS reports, and other accounting purposes. If you are familiar with accounting software such as Tally, you will know that the current number is converted into text. But this feature is not available in MS Excel.

The earlier version had few bugs which were reported by the users. I have fixed them in this version. 

Below is the list of bugs fixed

1. For 1000 and 100000 it was resulting in a null string. Now it has been fixed.

You can download the VBA module here. After downloading go to your Excel VBA editor. Then, go to Insert Menu, Insert Module. Paste the VBA code just downloaded. Go back to your excel spreadsheet by pressing ALT+F11. Start using the new function.

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Please let me know if you have any specific questions to currency converter or any generic VBA code questions. If you are looking for any new features in MS Excel or MS Word, I will try to implement them in using the VBA code.  

Excel VBA macro to swap 2 values in cells

It is very useful sometimes to have a shortcut to swap 2 cell values. I have created a macro in VBA to do this. Just copy paste the code below in your VBA module.

This video will help you with the procedure

VBA Code
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Sub Swap2Values()
    Dim Value1 As Range, Value2 As Range
    Dim TempValue1 As String, TempValue2 As String

    If Selection.Cells.Count > 2 Or Selection.Cells.Count < 2 Then
        MsgBox "Please select only 2 cells. For other options check back soon!"
        End
    End If
 
    If Selection.Areas.Count > 1 Then
        Set Value1 = Selection.Areas(1).Cells(1, 1)
        Set Value2 = Selection.Areas(2).Cells(1, 1)
    ElseIf Selection.Rows.Count > Selection.Columns.Count Then
        Set Value1 = Selection.Range("A1")
        Set Value2 = Selection.Range("A2")
    Else
        Set Value1 = Selection.Range("A1")
        Set Value2 = Selection.Range("B1")
    End If
    TempValue1 = Value1
    TempValue2 = Value2
    Value1 = TempValue2
    Value2 = TempValue1
End Sub

Connecting Bluetooth headset with laptop - Bluetooth A2DP

A normal phone Bluetooth headset can be easily connected to a laptop and it can be used as earphones or headphones while using skype, gtalk, WhatsApp, or any other voice chat services or of course to listen to your favorite music. All you need to do is a Bluetooth device and the Bluetooth driver with the A2DP(Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) profile.

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Here is the detailed procedure the setup Bluetooth device with your laptop.

Download the A2DP Bluetooth driver from the link provided below. Extract the zip file 'Bluetooth A2DP Driver For Windows.zip'. Go inside the folder 'Bluetooth A2DP Driver For Windows', double-click on the installer file 'anyone-Bluetooth-usb2x0-WindowsXP-v2-1-0-4.exe'. Follow the onscreen instruction to complete the installation. 

Once the A2DP driver is installed successfully, Switch on the Bluetooth in the Laptop and Headset. Look for the Bluetooth device the list of available Bluetooth devices. If it is not visible yet, select Add Device, and add the Bluetooth device. Make sure that the new Bluetooth is discoverable from other Bluetooth devices. During the installation of the new Bluetooth device, you can notice that additional profiles are installed. Adio profile, file sharing, Bluetooth telephony, etc. 

Check what are the services available for the new device 

Go to Device Manager and select the new device added, select properties. Then select the tab 'services'. The headset profile should be visible and checked along with other services. 

Now, route the audio to your newly installed Bluetooth device. Click on the audio volume icon on the notification bar, which is present at the bottom right corner of your Laptop screen. Right-click and select a playback device, a window will open up and hows all the available playback devices. If you have installed the driver software properly, you should see the newly installed Bluetooth device in the list. Select it and set it as a default playback device. 

Some of the below steps, you may have to try multiple times. 

You can download the necessary drivers here

Detailed step by step procedure in

Download Bluetooth A2DP driver

How to make an Excel macro available for entire excel in a PC - Excel add-ins

This post will show you how to make an Excel macro available for entire MS Excel in a PC. Whatever macro you write will only be available to that particular file. When you open a new Excel file you need to copy-paste or rewrite the entire macro again in the new excel workbook. You can avoid this by making an Excel Add-In. You can place the excel macro somewhere and make it as an add-in. whatever functionality present in the macro(add-in) will be available to the entire excel in your PC. It will be similar to your =SUM() function. When you try to insert the function, you can see your own functions in the “User Defined Functions” category

Let’s do it

1.       Open an Excel workbook

2.       Press ALT+F11

3.       In the project explorer( left side pane) select “VBA Project (book2)”, right-click Insert, then select Module. A blank page opens in the middle.

4.       http://krishnasr.blogspot.com/2010/02/convert-currency-to-word-in-excel.html open this link and copy-paste the code here

5.       Press again ALT+F11, this brings back to excel.

6.       Save the excel file as Excel 97-2003Add-in (*.xla)

a.       By default, it will save under C:\Users\krishnasg\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\AddIns in Windows 7. You change this if you want, but this is a safer place.

b.      Close the excel and remember to save it

7.       Open a new excel workbook. In the excel menu Ribbon (i.e. File, Home, Insert, etc.) find Developer Menu item. If it is not showing for you, then you can enable it in the excel options. See below To enable Developer Menu item in Excel Ribbon

a.       File -> Excel Options -> Customize Ribbon in the right-hand side check the Developer check box if

8.       Under the developer menu, select Add-Ins. You will see a list of available add-ins. You can also see your add-in book2  select that and say OK.

9.       Now your add-in is ready to use in any workbook across your computer

Number system grouping in Indian system in Excel

By default all computer have number grouping of 1000 separator system, like ###,###,###. But we Indians follow 1000 and 100 separator system like ##,##,###. We can change this default setting to the Indian System in Windows 7. I have not checked in Windows XP.

Follow the below steps to change the default settings

An easy way by means of Windows Search

1. Press Windows Button
2. Type "Regional Settings" in the search box
3. select "Change the date, time and number format"
4. In the "Formats" tab select "Additional settings"
5. Under the "Numbers" tab see Digits Grouping" and change it to the Indian system.

Manual steps if you don't have Windows Search

1. Go to "Control Panel"
2. Select "Region and Language" or if you have a Categorized view select "Clock, Language, and Region" and "Change the date, time and Number format".
3. Go to Step 4 above

How to To Turn Off Automatic Log On and remove welcome screen

How to To Turn Off Automatic Log On and remove the welcome screen?  This is applicable to Microsoft Windows 7. 
1. Switch on your computer or Laptop
2. Press Windows Key + R, or go running in the Start Menu

3.  and in the search bar type netplwiz, press enter

You can see the bellow window.

4. Go to the advanced tab.

5. check the checkbox at the end

How to disable or enable fn keys in HP laptops?

I have been struggling with fn keys with my new HP laptop. In all (many) new HP laptops these keys are mapped to action keys by default. Action Keys are nothing but special function keys that can be used to up/down the volume, brightness projector, etc. And this is not only with HP Laptops but almost all new PC makers have this as a default behavior. This may be useful if the PC or the Laptop is used for home entertainment, where most of the function keys are used for controlling the audio and video. But if the PC is being used for other purposes, function keys should have their original action associated.

But if you want to use the F1 key for Help you have to press Fn+F1. This is the default behavior and this is annoying at times as it requires one more key to pressed and held, and we are not used to it with the earlier version of Windows. I checked with HP service center, they said it cannot be changed. I guess they did not want to help me, I was shocked. Later I came to know from a friend that it can be changed in BIOS settings. It was as simple as 1,2, 3.
Follow this procedure

1. restart the pc

2. keep tapping ESC (or the key which takes you to bios settings )

3.go to system configurations

4. there find the Action Key Mode

5. Disable it

That's it...