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Protecting an Excel Applications - Often when we write an Excel application we
wish to restrict user access to only selected parts of that
application. There are at least 3 techniques to
consider. 1. Use the built in
Excel protection commands. 2. Use the
built in Excel protection commands plus compile the sensitive code
into a DLL. 3. Use the built in Excel
protection commands plus put everything into a C# DotNet assembly.
There is on the Vela Ventures Web Site a demonstration of the
application of Technique 1 and Technique 2. To accomplish this
protection and avoid the tedium of locking and unlocking individual
cells an automation of this process was built. www.VelaVentures.com/ProtectedApp/ProtectedApp.doc
describes these applications. These files have not been
protected. You are free to explore them and modify them as you see
fit. However, they are not for resale with out the consent of Vela
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| Bedford, MA Marketing Data. -
Need local up to date marketing information to target potential
customers? Tired of wasting your time and resources?
Vela Ventures can help. There is plenty of public information
available from the Bedford Town Census.
In fact, there are over 10,000 entries.
The problem is that the census is not in a ready to use form.
The town’s job is to gather the data and make it available,
not to help businesses readily access the information.
Vela Ventures has built a database and application to view it,
sort it and print it using Microsoft Office tools.
That’s right. No fancy software needed, just the software you already have.
The information can be sorted to get you the information you need.
Read the Instruction Manual this applications to see how useful this tool can be for your business.
www.VelaVentures.com/Demos/Bedford/ReadMe2006.pdf
www.VelaVentures.com/Demos/Bedford/ReadMe2006.doc
Vela Ventures can expand this database by merging it with your current business operations or
include the surrounding towns or any town in the Commonwealth.
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| Random Seating of Students. -
Vela Ventures was presented with the following question.
“I have 100 students with assigned seating for lunch at 10 tables that sit
10 students at each table. How do I easily randomize the seating so that the
students all get to sit with each other but also have the option
to ensure that some students do not sit together and that other students
continually sit together?” The application StudentSeating.xls does just that.
This application is controlled through the use of custom menu item ‘Utilities’.
Students are randomly seated, the option is given to adjust seating,
and the results are the tabulated for printing. (This spreadsheet has Macros, you will need to set your Tools -> Macro -> Security ->
to medium or less to use this application.)
What is presented is the first draft ready for discussion with the user.
This is not a finished application.
The next step is to tailor the operation and output specific to the
customer requirements. This application is presented to show the dynamic flexibility of Excel when using VBA.
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| Display Digital Images - The objective is to gather digital photos and present them in an easily viewable format. There are a two options. First, there is an Excel Workbook
that will build Web pages ready for display. Second, there is a PowerPoint presentation
that will import pictures and allow you to minipulate the pictures and add a
watermark. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. (Display_Images).
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| Address Book - This is an Access Application that can be used to keep personal and
business contacts. Why use this Vela Ventures app? You have complete access to the source
code to add your own personal touches. (Address Book).
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| DVD, CD, VHS Inventory - This is an Access Application that can be used to keep track
of your DVD/Movies. You can also do various sorts to find an actor, director or movie type. Why use this Vela Ventures app?
You have complete access to the source code to add your own personal touches. (Movie Inventory).
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Presentations |
| Power Point -
TSA_Project.ppt is simply a
Power Point file that presents information. It is a discussion of
why you should use MS Project in a particular application. TSA_Project.htm is the same
Power Point file saved as an HTML file. It is a reasonable presentation for a few slides but can get unwieldy as the number grows. It
is completely unmaintainable in HTML, but then it is not intended to be maintained in HTML.
Let PowerPoint do it. Update the PowerPoint file and rebuild the HTML files. For simple
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| CSS Review - This is a review of Cascading Style Sheets. The presentation looks
like it is using frames (similiar to the previous presentation), but it is
not. It is a table and the left column is dynamically created using
database. The advantage is that this provides a visual
display of where you are in the presentation. It also presents
alternate versions of the presentation using the same data.
The presentation order is stored in the database and can by
modified simply by updating the database.
(CSS Review)
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| XML Review - This is a review of XML. It is similiar in design to
the CSS Review, but has more Web pages and is more sophisticated.
(XML Review)
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Web Sites (static)
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| Caribbean Poles - This Web site
(Caribbean Poles) demo uses duplicate Web pages (Spanish and English) with the ability to switch between them and then continue
the navigation in the new language. Data for both pages could be stored
in a single Access table if it were more complex or more dynamic.
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| Boston Harbor Sailing Center -
This is a display of the current Sailboat Racing results.
Vela Ventures did not design this site
(Boston Harbor Sailing),
but has responsiblity
for the racing part (Racers Switchboard).
Its design is straight forward. The innovation is in the Excel spreadsheet
that rearranges the racing results as collected at the finish line for
presentation on the Web page. It creates an HTML table ready for insertion in tha Web page.
(Excel Spreadsheet).
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Web Sites (interactive)
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| Jobar - This is a redo of an existing Web site.
The Web site was all static HTML pages. (It has since been rebuilt Jobar).
The redo, which looks exactly like the earlier Web site, was done using Active Server pages and
a database (Jobar Redo). There are far
fewer actual pages on the Web site. In addition the ability to edit/add/delete
data via the Web is provided
(edit/add/delete pages).
This Access database was
built from an Excel spreadsheet using VBA code
(Excel Spreadsheet).
This alternative may be preferable if you are hosting your own Web site.
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| Personnel Database - Updating a personnel database
via the web. (Database Demo)
This a sample personnel database in Access database
that contains personnel records. This database can be accessed
from the web for reading, editing selected entries or editing all
entries depending on password.
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| Web based Info Sharing -
This is a database driven way of sharing information on the web and
allowing viewers to add comments.
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Interactive Web Sites Built using Visual Studio Dot Net and C# - Web based sites with data
stored in a Web Hosted SQL Server.
(SQL Server Web Sites) |
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Utilities
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| Contacts/Actions Tracking - This
is way of maintaining customer contacts and actions. Click here for more info
(Action Tracking Demo).
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| How do I move all my Excel data to an Access
database? - This example is an Excel to Access example
(Excel Access Demo). It
extracts tabular data from an Excel Workbook and uses it to
build an Access table containing all the Excel Workbook data.
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Finding the UNC name - This a Word Document with Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA) code that displays the UNC name of the computer where it is saved
(Document with UNC VBA code).
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Copywrite |
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These products are free for
your personal use. All code is visible and you are free to modify
that code for your own personal use. However, these products can
not be redistributed "as is" or "modifed" without the written
permission of Vela Ventures.
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