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...

Listing details of files and folders in a Directory in c#

You can get the list of files and folders in WIndows explorer or in a DOS prompt. It's often useful to get content of a folder dynamically using some scripts or programs, especially if you need these details in some applications. Below is a chunk of C# code which gives you the details for files and folders of a given path. You can add additional fields to your out based on your need.

Make an executable file, i.e exe, and use it in your application or run it from the command prompt. Results can be redirected to a text file or csv file.


using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

namespace WinConsole

{

class ListFilesOfDirectory

{

public static long size = 0;

public static long totalSizeInMB = 0;

public static long maxSizeInMB = 0;

public static void listFiles(string path)

{

DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path);

DirectoryInfo[] folders = di.GetDirectories();

long[] listOfDir = new long[folders.Length];

int i=0;

foreach (DirectoryInfo d in folders)

{

size = 0;

listOfDir[i] = GetSizeOdDirectory(d);

i += 1;

totalSizeInMB += size / (1024 * 1024);

if (maxSizeInMB <>

maxSizeInMB = size / (1024 * 1024);

}

// display results in tab separated txt file

Console.WriteLine("**\t**\t**\t**\t**");

Console.WriteLine("File\t\t\t\t Size in MB");

for(int j=0;j

{

Console.WriteLine(folders[j].Name + "\t \t \t"+listOfDir[j].ToString());

}

Console.WriteLine("**\t**\t**\t**\t**");

// Console.ReadKey();

}

public static long GetSizeOdDirectory(DirectoryInfo directory)

{

DirectoryInfo[] dir = directory.GetDirectories();

foreach (DirectoryInfo d in dir)

{

GetSizeOdDirectory(d);

}

FileInfo[] files = directory.GetFiles();

foreach (FileInfo f in files)

{

size += f.Length;

}

return size;

}

public static void Main(string[] args)

{

string path=args[0].ToString();

listFiles(path);

}

}

}

The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105 (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT)) MS Word automation solution

I was frustrated by this error every time I run the below code. I did a lot of googling nothing worked. Even Microsoft said it a known issue we don't recommend this.

Then later just to try I just put one try-catch block and it worked perfectly. To date I have not seen that error.

Convert currency to word ( text ) in excel 2.0

Update: New version 3.0 has been released with bug fixes. 
Please see this link

Version 3.0

Thank you guys for reported bugs in the code (Convert currency to word in excel 1.0) in my earlier post Convert currency to word in excel.

Your comments helped me a lot in fixing this error. There is a new version 2.0 which not only has bug fixes but also can convert up to 1,234,567,890.00.

You can download the latest version (2.0) from
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You can download the excel from
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