Matthew

Sorry for your plight.

I agree these are help groups and help is usually given unconditionally
but your "time is not something I can barter" struck a nerve.


Gord

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:05:04 -0800, "MatthewTap"
wrote:

Bob -- thank you. I did not know that a UDF couldn't control borders. I'm
still hoping an example of anything that could be in a CF but has been moved
to a UDF [and I'm unclear on how that would run], because I just need to see
one example... I've never seen one.



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But, to Gord, thanks for the help.

I was merely pointing out I don't have the time.

Short of abstract concepts, finite number, whatever, most people on these
boards can figure out anything on these boards given the time.

and, given the way I know I learn, if I am shown a minimalist example, I
learn more than just being shown a page with lots of random information on it
and having to go through and find an example.

That's the way I learn.

I'm sorry that I don't learn the way you do -- maybe you consider it the
only way any person ever should learn, and the rest of us shouldn't try to
learn the way we know how to best.

That would be really inefficient and ridiculous, and would cause those
people to post for help that much more.

Speaking of, this is a help discussion board.

I'm not trying to flame, be mean, whatever.

And people like you usually will hear this and just think "waaah" to me, but
the fact is I can barely type; I've just been released from the hospital for
a car wreck and three surgeries around my left arm and chest.

So, yes, I need someone to show me and example, and I realize that may not
happen... but I don't need you coming in here and letting everyone know that
you never had anyone show you anything in your entire life.



If you have anything to help, please post. If you don't, thanks for making
my recovery that much harder.


I'll never get people like you.



I could really use the help, so if you get down and want to help someone, I
would be more than pleased. If you'd rather go with the thought that the
knowledge of Excel is a zero sum game, then don't help me. I'll just go to
one of these pages, print them out, and have the nurse read them to me while
the glass in my eye is continually being worked out.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...htm#HasFormula
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/udfs/sumbold.html
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm




"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Translation...."I could do it myself, but would rather someone else put in the
time and did it for me."


Not this cowboy.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:05:47 -0800, "MatthewTap"
wrote:

I would have more fun going through docs
and notes to find out how to do it, but time is not something I can barter.