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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

Flappy Bird in Excel VBA - Tutorial Index

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.

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VBA macros > Flappy Owl Writing VBA > Flappy Owl

A blog to accompany our YouTube tutorial on script components in SSIS

Posted by Andy Brown on 19 February 2014

This blog provides the SQL, C# and VB script needed for the Integration Services script components tutorial.

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SSIS > Scripting

Advice on how to scrape tables of data or HTML from webpages using VBA

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").

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VBA macros > References Writing VBA > Other

How to use environment variables like USERNAME in VBA

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.

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VBA macros > Variables, arrays Writing VBA > Other

How to loop over enumerations in VBA

Posted by Andy Brown on 07 November 2013

A short blog explaining how to use Visual Basic for Applications to loop over enumerations.

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VBA macros > Enumerations Writing VBA > Other

How to refer to range names with worksheet and workbook scope

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 November 2013

Range names can have either worksheet or workbook scope - this blog shows how to make sure that you're referring to the right range names!

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Excel > Formulae

How to get row labels for a pivot table group to repeat

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 November 2013

A short blog showing how to stop Excel hiding duplicate values for pivot table groups.

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Excel > Tables, pivot tables

A blog showing how to use the SUMPRODUCT function

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 November 2013

The SUMPRODUCT function is one of the hardest ones to understand in Excel, but it's also pretty useful. This blog gives clear examples of how to use SUMPRODUCT for conditional sums, weighted averages and the like.

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Excel > Excel functions

How to get Excel to speak to you in a female voice, or slower/faster!

Posted by Andy Brown on 13 August 2013

A previous blog showed how to get Excel to speak to you; this one shows how to change the voice in which it does it!

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Excel > General

How to get Excel to speak to you - reading out the contents of cells

Posted by Andy Brown on 12 August 2013

Deep within its bowels Excel contains a feature allowing it to read out the contents of cells (you can also get your VBA macros to talk to users). This blog goes to those deep places hidden within Excel!

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Excel > General

Drop Lines in Excel Charts: Ah, that's what I needed!

Posted by Michael Allsop on 24 May 2013

Ever had the feeling that you're missing something obvious? This blog highlights one particular chart option that you may well have overlooked.

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Excel > Charts

Want to wind up your neighbour? Try this annoying Excel VBA code!

Posted by Andy Brown on 18 September 2024

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!

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VBA macros > Events Writing VBA > Other

Problems with Shared Datasets and Subreports in SSRS

Posted by Andrew Gould on 23 April 2013

If you're using shared datasets to populate subreports in Reporting Services you might have encountered an error when you preview your reports. This short blog explains what the problem is and offers a few simple suggestions to work around the issue.