User Defined Function

Blake asks: I have a somewhat related question, if you don't mind: I have very large amount of text in […]

Search for a file in folder and subfolders [UDF]

The image above demonstrates a user-defined function in cell range B6:D7 that allows you to search a folder and subfolders […]

Split search value using delimiter and search for each substring

Anil asks: I have A1(anil singh raj) It can be anything Like A1(singh raj anil) I want return value in […]

Split text across columns

The "Text to columns" feature in excel lets you split multiple values in a single cell using a delimiting character, […]

Count comma separated values [UDF]

I received an email from one of my seven blog readers. In Excel, I have a column, say A, with some […]

Count cells by cell and font color

Dave asks: How difficult would it be to make it count colour alone (so not unique values) and / or […]

Substitute multiple text strings [UDF]

The user defined function demonstrated below replaces multiple old text strings with new text strings in a cell. The custom […]

Lookup multiple values in one cell [UDF]

Chrisa asks: Hi Oscar...this is a very interesting function and helped me a lot so far. My file though is […]

Learn how to return values depending on how you enter the UDF

In this vba tutorial I am going to show you how to return values from an udf, depending on where […]

Extract unique distinct values from a filtered Excel defined Table [UDF and Formula]

Robert Jr asks: Oscar, I am using the VBA code & FilterUniqueSort array to generate unique lists that drive Selection […]

Reorganize data [UDF]

Sean asks: Sheet1A B C D 8 Country Europe 9 Lights 100 10 Type A 200 11 12 Country USA […]

Two-way lookup using multiple tables [UDF]

This article describes a User Defined Function that lookups values in multiple cross reference tables based on two conditions. A […]

SUMIF across multiple sheets [UDF]

This post describes a User Defined Function that searches multiple ranges and adds corresponding values across worksheets in a workbook. A […]

List files in a folder and subfolders [UDF]

This article demonstrates a user defined function that lists files in a ggiven folder and subfolders. A user defined function is […]

How to save custom functions and macros to an Add-In

Macros and custom functions are great, they can automate many tedious tasks. To have them available whenever you need them, […]

Filter unique distinct records (case sensitive) [UDF]

The User Defined Function demonstrated above extracts unique distinct records also considering upper and lower case letters. For example, a record […]

Filter unique distinct values (case sensitive) [UDF]

The User Defined Function demonstrated in the above picture extracts unique distinct values also considering lower and upper case letters. […]

How to count word frequency in a cell range [UDF]

This user defined function creates a unique distinct list of words and how many times they occur in the selected […]

Fuzzy lookups [UDF]

In this post I will describe a basic user defined function with better search functionality than the array formula in […]

Filter words containing a given string in a cell range [UDF]

The image above demonstrates a User Defined Function that extracts all words containing a given string that you can specify. In […]

Find positive and negative amounts that net to zero [UDF]

Question:I would like to reduce the number of open items by identifying positive and negative amounts that net to zero […]

Find numbers in sum [UDF]

This article describes how to find a sum from a range of numbers using a user defined function. Let´s see […]

List permutations without repetition [UDF]

This blog post describes how to create permutations, repetition is NOT allowed. Permutations are items arranged in a given order meaning […]

List permutations with repetition [UDF]

This blog post demonstrates a custom function (UDF) that creates permutations. Repetition is allowed. The custom function lets you specify the […]

Filter not shared values out of two cell ranges [UDF]

This post describes a custom function (User defined Function) that extract values existing only in one out of two cell […]

Filter values in common between two cell ranges [UDF]

I tried the array formula in this post: Filter common values between two ranges using array formula in excel to […]

Filter duplicates in a large dataset [UDF]

This article demonstrates a user defined function that extracts duplicate values and also count duplicates. Example, the image below shows a list containing […]