Excel Buffer Patterns for Import or Update NAV Data from Excel Files

Today I want to present how to use Excel Buffer functionality in order to update/import data in NAV/D365 Business Central based on data from Excel files. Example of what we want to achieve To show the concept I made a very easy example, so let’s suppose we have the following customers with Location Codes: And…

How to implement trial period or protection for your Excel Add-ins or workbooks using Excel VBA

There might be situations when you would like to set a trial period for your Excel applications: maybe you want to prevent employees take the applications and use them forever in other places after they leave your company or you simply need to provide to a client a trial that can be tested only a limited…

Excel Formula and VBA solution to dynamically extract the file name from website paths

You have an Excel file with thousands of rows like in the below image and for each row you need to extract the file name: How would you do this ? Solution: One formula that can solve your problem is this one: =RIGHT(A3,LEN(A3)-FIND(“$”,SUBSTITUTE(A3,”/”,”$”,LEN(A3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A3,”/”,””))))) Let’s explain how it works:  The file name is the sub-string after the…