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Damon Ostrander

U.S.

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returns 11/31/2009

Expertise

I have extensive experience with VBA programming in Excel 5 through Excel 2007. I am an consultant in a small defense technology services company, and have developed a wide range of applications in VBA, including simulations involving mixed-language programming, satellite orbit mechanics, graphics and animation, and real-time applications. I am interested in moderate to hard VBA-related questions only.

Experience in the area

I have developed and taught several courses in Excel VBA programming and also VBA programming in Office 97, 2000, and 2007. I have developed a number of large technical applications in Excel VBA for use within the aerospace industry.

What do you like about this subject?

I enjoy helping others, not just to solve their particular problem, but also to improve their proficiency and understanding of Excel and VBA. As a result, I always try to explain why a particular problem has occurred and why a particular solution works rather than just providing a solution.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

VBA is a powerful general-purpose scripting language, not just a macro recording capability. When one learns to program in VBA rather than just recording macros, a whole world of new capabilities opens up.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Contrary to the belief of many, VBA is exactly the same in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access. It is only the object models of the hosting applications, and therefore the way one works with their objects, that are different. As a result, once one knows VBA one need only learn the object model of any new application to program effectively in it.

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	T	P	Comments
sami	11/03/09	10	10	10	10	Thank you for your concern and prompt .....
Guillaume	05/20/09	10	10	10	10	Very Helpful and really an expert in .....
Bob	05/20/09	10	10	10	10	Pinpointed incorrect Excel behavior. Offered two workarounds .....
Dave	05/07/09	10	10	10	10	Awesome Damon, works great.
vijay	05/04/09	9	10	10	10	Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Recent Answers from Damon Ostrander

2009-11-03 Rearranging and sorting list row wise based on a list:

Hi Sami, Thank you for clarifying things. Here is a macro that I believe does what you want: ______________________________________________________________________________________ Sub RemoveSelectCarriers()

2009-11-02 Imposing Log file:

Hi pact, Okay, that clarification helps, although you didn't answer my question about the indent, so I just assumed you want to use it to indent the log entries. Here is a VBA function that I believe

2009-11-02 Excel tree view:

Hello Babu, This is difficult for me to understand without having your extracta application and the data files you are working with. I think it would help a lot if you could email me two copies of

2009-11-01 Imposing Log:

Hello pact, I am not sure I understand the question, so please help me by answering a few questions: 1. Am I correct in understanding that you want me to provide code for a Function named "Log" which

2009-10-02 Copy paste Worksheets with conditions.:

Hi Jack, I believe the following code does what you describe: Private Sub Workbook_Open() 'Copies MPR and Form64 sheets to MPR 2009 and Form64 2009 workbooks the 'first time this workbook

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