Last monday David Gainer from Microsoft has posted more details on Excel 12 on his weblog. Much of the new expanded limits have to do with the new grid. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2005/09/26/474258.aspx Personally I really like the new grid. More rows and more columns allow you to import more data for analysis.

Yesterday I got an email from Peter from New Zealand: "Great utility - I got it from the Roam magazine CD. Thanks". This made me curious cause I didn' t know about the article (although the publisher should have contact me first). So I asked Peter to send me scanned copy of the article, which ...

Yesterday I discovered ASAP Utilities is mentioned in the Russian edition of PC Magazine on September 15, 2005: I don't read Russian but I believe it's the same article that has been published by PC Magazine in its 2005 Ultimate Utility Guide. Russian to English translation by Google Translate: Microsoft Excel There are hundreds of specialized plug-ins for Excel, ...

Today David Gainer, Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel has started an official Excel blog. Until the public release of Excel 12 (medio 2006 probably) he will publish about new stuff in Excel 12. Well the first news he posts is great, more rows and columns! (like Quattro Pro has for years). From his site: Probably the most ...

Hello world! This blog will be use to post frequently about Excel tools and provide code snipplets. As the author of ASAP Utilities I get a lot of questions by email. Most questions are the same and repeated over and over again. I'll use this blog to answer to the most general Excel questions including questions ...

A few weeks ago I got a question about hyperlinks. A list of soccer clubs was kept in Excel (4000+). Some of them had a hyperlink some didn't. How to see this quickly? A possible solution is to show them in different colors: Private Sub ColorHyperlinks()  ' color cells with hyperlinks  Dim rngCel                                 As Range  Application.ScreenUpdating = False  For Each rngCel ...

Last week I got a question from Mike: Bastien, Thank you for writing ASAP Utilities. It has saved me countless hours in Excel time and has given me capabilities that I wouldn't otherwise have. I wanted to ask for some help. I noticed that in the user-defined functions for ASAP Utilities there is a function "ASAPSumbyFontColor". I ...

Recently a few people reported an error when they start Excel with ASAP Utilities. In some cases it's been working okay for years and then suddenly this error popped-up. It could be caused by an old version of ASAP Utilities when the location of the favorites menu could not be found or was not properly ...

ASAP Utilities is being featured in The Kim Komando Show Cool Site of the Day on August 8, 2005. Kim Komando hosts the largest talk radio show about computers and the Internet. The program is heard on over 450 stations throughout the United States. Kim Komando's newsletter has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. For:8/8/2005 Tweak Excel I've used ...

False Virus alert in sytem.asap Gone ?Some virusscanners reported a virus in the file system.asap.Of course ASAP Utilities is virus-free, but it caused a lot of "stress". The reason was caused by the codeline: insertline() which was in the System » Macro/VBA information » Code washer part. Here you can choose to remove empty lines, ...