Last year, Steven shared a beautiful Christmas Gift List template with all of us. It is packed with lots of Excel goodness. Just a few days ago, he emailed me another copy of his file with some improvements. So if you are planning for Christmas shopping and want a handy tracker, you don’t want to miss this.
How does this template work?
This template feels magical. To begin with,
Zebra lines thru Conditional Formatting
Alternative rows of the template are shaded in dull gray color so that the template is easy to use. And this is achieved by Conditional Formatting & SUBTOTAL formula. A very ingenious use of SUBTOTAL formula so that the zebra lines preserve even after filtering data.
Custom Cell Formatting to Show Budget vs. Actual Variance
Another simple yet elegant solution. To highlight the variance between budgeted & actual gift value, Steven used Custom Cell Formatting.
Awesome Formulas to Summarize the Gift List
The top right area of Steven’s shopping list shows a clear summary of your Christmas shopping list. Each of the values in the summary are calculated by a clever formula. For example, the formula to show how many gifts are over the budget vs. how many are on or under the budget is an intricately woven SUMPRODUCT formula with SUBTOTAL, OFFSET & ROW components. Go ahead and examine these formulas to learn more.
You can filter the list and analyze by segment
The beauty of this template is that you can filter the list and analyze by segment. For example, you can filter all the gifts you are giving to friends and see whether you are with-in budget in that segment, the progress of gift selection & purchase etc. Very useful.
Download Christmas Gift Shopping List Template
Click here to download the template and use it.
Go ahead and Enjoy your Christmas shopping.
Thanks to Steven
for sharing a beautiful & awesome template with all of us.
How do you like this template?
I really loved the simplicity and elegance of this template. It is easy to use, packed with lots of details and fun to poke around.
What about you? Do you like this template? How do you organize your Christmas spending? Do you use Excel, some other tools or rely on your gut feel? Please share using comments.
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6 Responses to “Make VBA String Comparisons Case In-sensitive [Quick Tip]”
Another way to test if Target.Value equal a string constant without regard to letter casing is to use the StrCmp function...
If StrComp("yes", Target.Value, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
' Do something
End If
That's a cool way to compare. i just converted my values to strings and used the above code to compare. worked nicely
Thanks!
In case that option just needs to be used for a single comparison, you could use
If InStr(1, "yes", Target.Value, vbTextCompare) Then
'do something
End If
as well.
Nice tip, thanks! I never even thought to think there might be an easier way.
Regarding Chronology of VB in general, the Option Compare pragma appears at the very beginning of VB, way before classes and objects arrive (with VB6 - around 2000).
Today StrComp() and InStr() function offers a more local way to compare, fully object, thus more consistent with object programming (even if VB is still interpreted).
My only question here is : "what if you want to binary compare locally with re-entering functions or concurrency (with events) ?". This will lead to a real nightmare and probably a big nasty mess to debug.
By the way, congrats for you Millions/month visits 🙂
This is nice article.
I used these examples to help my understanding. Even Instr is similar to Find but it can be case sensitive and also case insensitive.
Hope the examples below help.
Public Sub CaseSensitive2()
If InStr(1, "Look in this string", "look", vbBinaryCompare) = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub
Public Sub CaseSensitive()
If InStr("Look in this string", "look") = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub
Public Sub NotCaseSensitive()
'doing alot of case insensitive searching and whatnot, you can put Option Compare Text
If InStr(1, "Look in this string", "look", vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
MsgBox "woops, no match"
Else
MsgBox "at least one match"
End If
End Sub