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This is an implementation of the 'merge sort' algorithm - one of the most efficient sorting algorithms. It uses what's known as a 'divide...

How to make Ribbon controls react to the state of a workbook, document or presentation. In this example, a Button and ComboBox is added.

Jump to declarations, jump to references, jump to matching literal values, highlight declarations and references ... with your mouse

Adding a Button to the Ribbon menu is surprisingly easy. If you follow this post, you will end up with both a Button and a ComboBox.

Programmatically adding controls to a UserForm and reacting to their events

Get fed up with the boring default colours available in the VBE's 'Options' dialog? Don't like cyan text on a magenta background ... make...

It's taken me 3 months (Access is so, so different to other Office applications!) but VBE_Extras now works from the VBE hosted by...

Something that brings a UserForm to life is, when the mouse pointer hovers over a Button, there's an indication that the Button is clickable

Update October 2024: This post uses Visual Studio and/or RegAsm to 'statically' register your C# library before it is loaded and used by...

One of the commands that is provided by VBE_Extras is the ability to rename a declaration and all the references of that declaration....