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Comparing Office Scripts with VBA

Posted by Andrew Gould on 29 June 2023

Until recently, if you wanted to automate a Microsoft Excel workbook your only real choice was the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) programming language. Now, there's a new option for adding code to Excel: Office Scripts for Excel. There are many similarities between Office Scripts and VBA, as well as some significant differences. This blog provides a comparison of the two systems.

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Office Scripts > General

Wordle in Excel VBA

Posted by Andrew Gould on 31 January 2022

Have you played Wordle yet? You should, it's great! We're a bit obsessed with it at Wise Owl so Andrew, Andy and Sam have all been working their own versions of the game in VBA, Python and Power BI(!) respectively. Check out this quick intro to Andrew's VBA version.

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VBA macros > General

Power BI Reports vs. Paginated Reports

Posted by Andrew Gould on 19 July 2021

Confused about the difference between Power BI Reports and Power BI Paginated Reports? Allow this blog to clear up the confusion!

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Power BI > General

Wise Owl movie connections

Posted by Andrew Gould on 19 August 2019

Lots of our training material uses examples related to movies but did you know that Wise Owl has several tenuous connections to famous films?

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Miscellaneous > Random musings

Getting Started with Power BI Report Server

Posted by Andrew Gould on 07 July 2023

Power BI encourages you to publish reports to an online service so that you can share your beautiful reports with the world. If you'd rather keep them a secret you can use Power BI Report Server to deploy your reports to an on-premises server, as this blog series shows you.

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Power BI > General Power BI > Power BI Service

Disabling Screen Updates in Excel VBA

Posted by Andrew Gould on 26 November 2015

You can give your VBA code a performance boost by simply turning off screen updating while your code runs. This blog explains how to achieve this and how to create a basic timer to test the results.

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VBA macros > General Writing VBA > Other

Free C# training

Posted by Andrew Gould on 31 October 2014

This blog serves as the main index for our complete tutorial on programming in Visual C#. You'll find links to all of the articles, videos and files that you'll need to follow the tutorial.

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Visual C# > General

Pivoting Data in SQL Server

Posted by Andrew Gould on 09 June 2014

Using the Pivot operator in SQL Server allows you to create basic pivot tables from your query results. This blog teaches you how to create simple, static pivots, crosstab-style tables and exciting, dynamic pivot tables.

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SQL > Dynamic SQL SQL > CTEs, subqueries T-SQL > Other

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 13 - Playing Sounds

Posted by Andrew Gould on 24 April 2014

This part of the tutorial explains how to add sounds to the game using a Windows API function.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 12 - Managing Game State

Posted by Andrew Gould on 24 April 2014

This part of the tutorial implements a state system to make it easier to determine what actions to perform each time the game updates.

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Writing VBA > Flappy Owl VBA macros > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 11 - Detecting Collisions

Posted by Andrew Gould on 24 April 2014

In this part of the tutorial you'll learn how to make the game detect collisions between the bird and the obstacles.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 10 - Creating Obstacles

Posted by Andrew Gould on 24 April 2014

This part of the tutorial shows you how to add obstacles to the game and how to make them move across the screen.

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Writing VBA > Flappy Owl VBA macros > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 9 - Creating the Game Sheet

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.

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Writing VBA > Flappy Owl VBA macros > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 8 - Using Class Modules

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.

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Writing VBA > Flappy Owl VBA macros > Classes VBA macros > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 7 - Creating Sprites

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 6 - Detecting Player Input

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 5 - Starting and Ending the Game

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 4 - The Game Timing Loop

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 3 - Windows API Functions

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA Part 2 - Basic Workbook Setup

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

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From:	biulanar
When:	30 Oct 19 at 18:05

Reply to biulanar

Hi. Did you figure out the flickering FlappyBirds problem?

From:	Andrew G
When:	01 Nov 19 at 13:55

Reply to Andrew G

I'm afraid that I didn't! I spent a little time investigating and then simply decided that Excel is a terrible choice for a game engine and moved on to XNA, GameMaker then Unity!

From:	H Randolph
When:	15 Apr 19 at 02:18

Reply to H Randolph

In need to add more than one line to a few rows in my database table.. Could I make the row length longer and wrap the data?

I work on a database to compare congressman's, work district and other information. Some table row has data that needs lines

I am not a coder, but with all the help you have given me with your video. I have built a database one. People who have some of it thank its great. That it would be useful.

Thanks you all your help

From:	Andrew G
When:	15 Apr 19 at 13:51

Reply to Andrew G

Hi Henry,

If you want to provide any kind of formatting for your users you really need to be using some form of reporting tool. This could be Excel, Reporting Services, Power BI or a number of other tools. Anything but SQL Server Management Studio!

From:	H Randolph
When:	14 Mar 18 at 00:52

Reply to H Randolph

I am trying to build a SQL data base. Who do I enter line of data in a tablein the the data base.Please help me

thank H Randolph

From:	Andrew G
When:	14 Mar 18 at 07:07

Reply to Andrew G

Hi Henry, we have a video which explains how to design and build a simple database (including how to enter data into tables) here

https://www.wiseowl.co.uk/videos/sql2016/design-relational-database.htm

I hope that helps!

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