I have an Excel VB function that performs a rather long computation
(it calls a big Fortran .dll) and I would like to extract more than a
single quantity from each calculation.

In my naive conception of an Excel VB function, one feeds it input
parameters, and it returns a single function value. I've attempted to
output multiple quantities by setting the value of various named
ranges within the function, but this doesn't seem to work. (I suspect
that this sort of thing could seriously undermine Excel's dependency
tree.)

Is there a proper way to have a single function call return more
than one value?

Many thanks,

Tom Kreutz

P.S. My apologies if the query shows up more than once; this is my
third time posting it in two days, and it has yet to appear!

Same way as you would do it for built in functions that support it. You
would have the function return an array and you would have to array enter
formula. So if you want to return a table of values (a rectangular area)
this will work.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Tom Kreutz" wrote in message
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I have an Excel VB function that performs a rather long computation
(it calls a big Fortran .dll) and I would like to extract more than a
single quantity from each calculation.

In my naive conception of an Excel VB function, one feeds it input
parameters, and it returns a single function value. I've attempted to
output multiple quantities by setting the value of various named
ranges within the function, but this doesn't seem to work. (I suspect
that this sort of thing could seriously undermine Excel's dependency
tree.)

Is there a proper way to have a single function call return more
than one value?

Many thanks,

Tom Kreutz

P.S. My apologies if the query shows up more than once; this is my
third time posting it in two days, and it has yet to appear!