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Excel Shortcut: Open VBA Editor's Immediate Window

Ah the number of time's you've hoped that the VBA Editor's Immediate window could be attached to Excel's own window. That's not going to happen soon I think, so here's a tip how to quickly open and activate the Immediate window with some shortcut keys:

Alt + F11 Ctrl + G

Alt + F11 opens VBA Editor and Ctrl + G activates the Immediate window. Convenient way to help your spreadsheet editing especially with short single-line macros.

VBA: Break All External Links in a Workbook

Here's a tip how to break all external links from a workbook:



Sub BreakAllLinks()


    Dim arrStrLinks As Variant
    
    ' Read workbook links to an array.
    arrStrLinks = ActiveWorkbook.LinkSources(Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks)
    
    ' Loop through whole array -> all links.
    For i = 1 To UBound(arrStrLinks)
        ActiveWorkbook.BreakLink _
        Name:=arrStrLinks(i), _
        Type:=xlLinkTypeExcelLinks
    Next i


End Sub


This is actually a slightly modified version of the one you can find from Excel's help with keyword BreakLinks.

Excel Shortcut: Add Date or Time to Cell

To quickly add current date to active cell press CTRL + SEMICOLON (i.e. CTRL + ; )

To add current time press CTRL + COLON (i.e. CTRL + : )

VBA: Remove All Shapes From Sheet

To remove all shapes from a sheet, use the below snippet:

Sub RemoveShapes()


    Dim s As Shape


    For Each s In ActiveSheet.Shapes
        s.Delete
    Next s


End Sub

Excel: Count Unique (Number) Values

To count the unique number values in a range, say for example column A, you can use a combination of SUM, IF and FREQUENCY formulas.

Example:
=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(A:A;A:A)>0;1))


Check the help for more details on FREQUENCY formula.