In a previous post we saw how to send emails from Excel via Outlook and from a Microsoft email account. We could use the same method to send email with Gmail by adding the Gmail account to Outlook and specifying to send using that account. However, if we don’t want to use Outlook at all, we can also send an email from Excel via a Gmail account using the Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) API for Windows. In this post we see a macro that sends an email from Excel using a Gmail account.
In this post we learn to separate words and numbers within cells in Excel using VBA macros. The macro splits the value in a cell into parts separated by a space (parts can be letters, words, numbers, etc). We can easily adapt the macro to separate the value by other character (a comma, a semi-colon, etc). In this particular example, we will get the keyword in that cell in one column, a number (if any) in another column, and a date (if any) in a third column. The keyword can be based on a reference value or list of values, but in this case, we will just get the longest word in the sentence, assuming that’s the keyword in that sentence. If there is more than one number (or more than one date), the macro gets the last one. That can be easily changed as needed to get a number or date in a particular position.
In a previous post we have seen how to sort text or words inside a single cell in the Excel worksheet using VBA macros. But that approach worked only with a list of unique values. In this post, we see how to sort the elements in the array created from the cell content, regardless whether that content has unique or repeated values. In both cases, the Split VBA function is used to convert the text or values into an array of elements. In this example, the elements are words separated by a space, but the same method can be used for values separated by a comma, semicolon, or a line break, as in the second scenario of the previous post.
In this post we see how to sort the text or words inside a single cell in the Excel worksheet using VBA macros. This may come handy when dealing with a bunch of text imported or scraped (also copy/pasted) into a single cell, which we may need to sort or handle in some way. The process consists of converting the text into an array that allows to count the number of words, sort the words in alphabetical order, and do other manipulations of the text such as extracting the words into a range of cells. The macro example below is used to sort the text inside a cell alphabetically. The instructions underneath explain how to perform other actions. Another option is to sort elements in the array itself - see this other post.
