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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    edited 24 September 2013 at 10:20PM
    michaels wrote: »
    I am guessing (may be wrongly) that the whole issue is trying to get all the data into a single vba module that can be imported into every file he wants to use it in rather than having a separate data file that needs to be referenced each time?
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Yes. This is purely for convenience and portability. The present arrangement works perfectly well, as would Lydia's suggestion. It seems to be harder to implement than I expected. Thanks for looking at it for me.

    I'm sure it can be done within the vba module, but it would involve putting all 10,000 numbers into the text of the module, which is not something I've ever done.

    [Edit - corrected typo should read 10,000 not 1,000]
    Wheezy wrote: »
    ....do any of you speak/understand welsh or gaelic?

    No. In welsh I know araf, ysgol, ysbyty, eglwys and canolfan, but that's it.
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
    :)
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    Spirit wrote: »
    Today I have been Mrs Spirit for 30 years.

    Congratulations! :T:beer::T:beer::T:beer::T
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    The good news is that the driver was fine. :)

    That's astonishing! :eek:
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
    :)
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,223 Forumite
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    I'm sure it can be done within the vba module, but it would involve putting all 1,000 numbers into the text of the module, which is not something I've ever done.

    I think the aim was to avoid that but now I am thinking you could use some vba to build a string using the data values currently in the cells that populates all the array elements that could them be pasted into a vba window although you might run into issues with string lengths.....
    I think....
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    I think the aim was to avoid that but now I am thinking you could use some vba to build a string using the data values currently in the cells that populates all the array elements that could them be pasted into a vba window although you might run into issues with string lengths.....

    Especially since 1,000 was a typo and should have read 10,000!
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
    :)
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Quite often, when trying to solve somebody's problem, I go right back to basics and ask: What are you trying to do?

    By not answering the question and by finding out what they want to do, there's often a better/easier solution to the actual problem.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,223 Forumite
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    Quite often, when trying to solve somebody's problem, I go right back to basics and ask: What are you trying to do?

    By not answering the question and by finding out what they want to do, there's often a better/easier solution to the actual problem.

    I look at what the customer wants to achieve and then consider whether the method they are proposing is the most time-consuming way of doing it. If it is then there is certainly no point suggesting another way, merely asking for a contract extension....
    I think....
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    Happy anniversary to Mr and Mrs Spirit :smileyhea
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,223 Forumite
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    edited 24 September 2013 at 11:30PM
    Nikkster wrote: »
    Happy anniversary to Mr and Mrs Spirit :smileyhea
    Hi Niks. ?

    Edited although I'm not sure what I was giving away...
    I think....
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
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    Happy anniversary Spirit!

    I almost missed a meeting today, I had it in my calendar for tomorrow, had told my parents it was Wednesday and had just settled down for a cup of tea after the rush around this morning when I get a phone call asking where I was!

    So embarrassed, I am never late for appointments but luckily, I could get there quickly....although I suspect youngest would have preferred for the meeting to not have happened at all as it was about him and I had to say things which made him feel a bit eek as it was his private business.

    It had to be said though as although it is private, it is also dangerous for his health (he is refusing to go to the loo for a wee while at school and is holding it plus also now refusing completely to take his inhalers with him to school, let alone use them)..so tonight, I am facing the wrath of J!
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    edited 24 September 2013 at 11:15PM
    Yes, this is the handover.

    Turns out everyone is really rather nice.

    I'm currently in the most expensive hotel room I've ever stayed in though (combination of a booking error by someone else and some kind of seafood festival being in town meaning hotels are pretty full). 2 nights = a months mortgage so there had better not be any problems getting this through on expenses :eek:

    I think I need to brush up on my Frenchness (language, cheek kissing...)

    Edit: just thought - I'd quite appreciate if you could take the end bit off your post please michaels, can't be too careful and all that
    Thank you :)
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