Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
This part of the tutorial explains how to generate a game worksheet using code to define the playing area.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 24 April 2014
This part of the tutorial introduces the concept of class modules and shows you how to use them to organise your code.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to draw simple images using a worksheet as the canvas. You'll also see how to include the images in the game.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to respond to keys pressed by the player. You'll learn about the Application.OnKey method and the GetAsyncKeyState Windows API function.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial adds a basic menu system with ActiveX command buttons to start and stop the game.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to set up a timing loop which allows the game to update continuously.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to make use of Windows API functions to extend the power of Excel VBA.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the tutorial describes how to setup a basic workbook ready for you to start coding the Flappy Owl game.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This part of the Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Tutorial introduces you to the Flappy Owl game and provides download links and instructions to get it running in Excel on your machine.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 11 April 2014
This is the main index page for the Flappy Bird in Excel VBA tutorial. Here you can find links to all of the articles which comprise the tutorial.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 January 2014
You can use Visual Basic within Excel, PowerPoint or Word to draw shapes, format them and even assign macros to run - this long blog gives lots of ideas of how to proceed!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 13 January 2014
You can use VBA to extract data from web pages, either as whole tables or by parsing the underlying HTML elements. This blog shows you how to code both methods (the technique is often called "web-scraping").
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 November 2013
You can get at all sorts of system information within Visual Basic for Applications by using environment variables - this blog shows you how to get at your user's name, computer name and much more besides.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 November 2013
A short blog explaining how to use Visual Basic for Applications to loop over enumerations.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 14 May 2013
If you have a colleague who trusts you, you could always betray this trust by sending them a workbook which misbehaves: it won't close and you can't leave it!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 04 April 2013
If your chart has more than a thousand data labels, this blog explains why you may experience problems.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 30 May 2012
This follow-up article to a previous blog describes how to label the data points in multiple series in Excel using VBA.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 06 March 2012
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.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 March 2012
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.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 July 2023
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.