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I want to obtain the duration of a song being played by windows media player or the song title. I have no idea how to do this, please can you help? Not being that good I need code examples to follow or try to adapt. thank you in advance glassescase

Hi everyone, I have a large Excel file with a long macro that needs to run. I am *not* looking for ways to optimize my Excel file or the macro code in order to increase its performance. Performance (duration of the macro) is perfectly acceptable as long my instance of Excel remains 'in focus'...

This code works in Excel 2013 and Windows 7, but in Excel 2016 and Windows 10 and Excel 2013 and Windows 10 error is received. Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object

I have a board display using multiple windows within Excel spread across multiple monitors. During various events windows popup to show other information and when de-activated, the window is closed. This works like a charm until someone closes the window to deactivate it, in which instance the...

Am I wrong, or did Excel use tabbed windows in the past? I have Excel 2016 and all workbooks open in new windows. Wasn't the (old) default behavior tab based? Is there a way to get it back?

I've been given the responsibility to fix a broken macro of a termed employee. This individual used the code listed below but I don't understand he used the Windows object rather than Sheet object. Is there any logical reason to do this? I suspect there must be a reason that I'm not aware of...

Hello everyone, i really am struggling with this. I made a macro to run before i got to work while my windows user is locked. Altought, i noticed the code "selection.copy" is not copying anything because the user is locked, i don't know the reason, but when i run the macro with user unlocked it...

Hello I try to create a patient list (As I am doctor) patient has a different diagnosis. I will create an excel file for each patient. So whenever I search a patient with one spesific diagnosis, windows search finds all of these diagnosis, not the one I selected. Is there anyway to stop it...

Hi, I have a problem with General format of cells. I have some files that I sent to some colleagues and once I open them all cells in General format were showing like currency format (13.4 in a general format cell, now appeare like 13.40$) I did not find where to configure this general format...

I run a window cleaning company and use Excel for accounting. I have a page that has all my customers. There is a column that has the month which shows the month their windows are due to be cleaned again. On my dashboard, I want to show all the customers due to have their windows cleaned for...

Hello All. I really would love to be able to change the default formatting for excel 2016 comments. IE the background colour and font (from bold to regular) etc. I found a video on youtube that shows how this is done on windows 7, but I can't seem to work this out for windows 10 (64bit) Thie...

I run Win10 Pro on a Thinkpad. The size and position of opened, then closed Excel-windows is not preserved between Windows-sessions. This is true for other windows as well, e. g. Edge. They reopen at any position and/or any size. Is there a setting to keep positions and sizes like in former...

I use a web site to monitor when my son gets dispatched on a fire call https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/public-safety-alerts/alerts-notifications/toronto-fire-active-incidents/ I have a macro that works fine on my Windows 8 computer but not on Windows 10 and no one in the world seems to...

I have the following code that has worked fine for years on my Windows 8 PC but crashes with the title error on my Windows 10 PC. Sub Download() Dim IE As Object Dim html As Object Dim objElementTR As Object Dim objTR As Object Dim objElementsTD As Object Dim...

Is there a way to capture a userid in Access? I have an Access program that is on a network and use so sort of Windows authentication to sign on. I want to capture the person's userid in order to grant certain Access tables in my application.

Macro worked perfectly under Windows 7. Now under Windows 10 it returns an error of 2 ?? inside squares like this: ￿￿ (sorry they dont copy over exactly as shown)

I have installed several Excel add-ins that I created on my computer. And whenever I open Excel Visual Basic Editor many of the Code Windows that I have closed before exiting the VBA Editor keep popping up each time I open the VBA Editor. It also happens with some of the forms from those...

Hi, I have this hard wired code to open a folder called Comm. It works perfectly. Shell "explorer.exe ""C:\Users\Pas\Comm\", 1 I have this full folder path recorded in cell A1. Just to make it a bit more flexible, I loaded this value to a string variable and execute the same script to open...

Hi, i need the code for changing regional settings in windows environment: 1. Check what regional settings are used 2. If RS are Windows default (in my case polish -pl) - change to US (United States) 3. If US - change to windows defaults. Cross posted here...

We're moving from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise. I'd like code in my workbook to work under either environment, meaning I need to determine which environment a user is in and adapt my code accordingly. Thoughts?