The PODA Blog http://proofficedev.org/blog News, views and articles from our membership Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:02:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Path and Filename Functions http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/03/path-and-filename-functions/ http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/03/path-and-filename-functions/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:00:17 +0000 Jimmy Peña http://proofficedev.org/blog/?p=451 VBA Express has what I consider to be the ideal functions for returning file name and path from a given input string. They avoid those pesky loops which I see on a few sites. As an exercise I thought of a few more ways to do so. I didn't completely avoid loops, but I thinkContinue Reading: Path and Filename Functions »

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]]> http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/03/path-and-filename-functions/feed/ 1 Grab any Environment Variable http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/03/grab-any-environment-variable/ http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/03/grab-any-environment-variable/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:00:24 +0000 Jimmy Peña http://proofficedev.org/blog/?p=445 In Capture a User’s Domain\UserName, Mike Alexander shows us how to use the Environ function to get the local username. This can be used to customize application messages or manage user credentials. Using a function with a custom enumeration we can return the value of any Environ variable. Here's one way to do it. FirstContinue Reading: Grab any Environment Variable »

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]]> http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/03/grab-any-environment-variable/feed/ 0 Schedule a recurring task every N minutes http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/02/schedule-a-recurring-task-every-n-minutes/ http://proofficedev.org/blog/2011/02/schedule-a-recurring-task-every-n-minutes/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:00:33 +0000 Jimmy Peña http://proofficedev.org/blog/?p=434 You can schedule code to run every N minutes, using Outlook. I can see a lot of uses for this, for example if you needed to run cleanup code regularly, or email sorting, or anything else that needs to happen regularly at greater intervals than Outlook already provides with the built-in recurring feature. (Note: IContinue Reading: Schedule a recurring task every N minutes »

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