Programmatically set Excel LinkedCell property with VBA

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:36:48 +0000

Yesterday I was working with an Excel document that contained Combobox form controls.

I wanted to count the number of cells containing a particular value using the COUNTIF formula. However the count returned 0 because the LinkedCell property of the Combobox was not set to the Cell that contained the Combobox.

To set the LinkedCell Ctrl-Click the Combobox to select it, right-click and select Format Control. Then set the correct Cell in the Cell link field:

My sheet contained about 150 Comboboxes, so obviously I was going to do this using a script. I couldn't find anything useful with Google so I wrote my own Macro.

Excel 2010 multi-threaded calculation

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:21:19 +0000

I was just browsing through the Options tab in Excel 2010 when I noticed the following setting:

This feature was introduced in Excel 2007.
In the default settings, multi-threaded calculation is Enabled with "Use all processors on this computer".

On a physical desktop this would be the preferred setting since it will make formula calculation as fast as possible.

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Programmatically set Excel LinkedCell property with VBA

Excel 2010 multi-threaded calculation