It's not for the faint-hearted, but there is a way to capture application events (such as someone trying to create a new workbook) in Excel, using something called an event sink.  This blog explains how you might go about creating an event sink.

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Creating a digital certificate for your VBA projects is easy, but deleting them is somewhat less obvious. This blog shows you how to use the certificate manager to remove certificates that you no longer need.

If you've learnt how to create your own objects using classes in Excel VBA, the next step is to learn how to group them together into collections. This on-line tutorial will show you how.

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Those who want to add spice to their VBA programming can learn how to create classes, or class modules, and become object-orientated programmers.  It's difficult, but fun - and this multi-part blog will guide you along the way.

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If you've written a killer function, you'll want to be able to share it between workbooks. The best way to do this is using an add-in.

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The two previous parts of this mini-blog have shown how to draw forms and how to write code to handle form events.  This final part shows how to add some of the more exotic controls to user forms, like combo boxes, list boxes, multipage controls, spinners and option buttons.

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The previous part of this three-part series showed how to draw user forms; this part shows how to write macros to get them to work (the final part shows how to use some of the more advanced controls, such as combo boxes and MultiPages).

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Learn how to create your own custom dialog boxes in VBA, using UserForms.  This is the first part of a three-part series (the other parts are on Writing Code for UserForms and Creating Advanced Controls).

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On-line training in writing functions using VBA, for use either within other VBA programs or within Excel itself.

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You can use arrays (multiple variables) in VBA to speed up code - and they are also invaluable for processing CSV files and the like.

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Excel and other MS Office applications make extensive use of enumerations - and you should too!

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In certain cases in VBA (displaying the contents of folders, listing hierarchical data) writing a program which calls itself is by far the easiest way to go - this blog gives worked examples of 3 such recursive programs.

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To become an efficient programmer, you need to stop writing one long subroutine and start writing lots of small ones instead - and to do this, you're going to need to know everything there is to know about passing arguments.

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Learn how to write VBA macros to add, edit and delete data in Access, SQL Server and other databases, using something called ADO.

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By referencing the unintuitively named Microsoft Scripting Runtime object library you can write VBA code to access files and folders on your hard disk. This blog explains how, and gives a couple of worked examples.

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The easiest way to work with text files in VBA is using TextStream objects - this blog explains how they work.

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To make it easier for users of your VBA systems to choose files, you can show FileDialogs on screen. This blog explains what these are, and how to customise them.

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In order to work efficiently with files and folders you first need to create a FileSystemObject. This blog explains how to do this!

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Did you know that you can create and manage references from within VBA code? This article gives you ideas on how to do just that.

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Although it's usually easiest to create references to other applications using Tools -> References as described in an earlier blog, you can use the method shown in this blog instead.

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