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Excel VBA sorting and import routines with help from CoPilot

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 16, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access VBA Coding

Today I spent an hour working with CoPilot on some Excel VBA code to do a custom sort that is not normally possible with the normal sorting functions, and import data from a CSV file with a system dialog to display the default choice, but allow changing it. I was...

HAL_Excel class module for exporting data to an Excel Spreadsheet

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 14, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

I utilized a couple of library routines I built to manage an Excel export. Step 1 – Get an Excel object from a function which opens a particular xlsx file as a template, then copies it to a new file name given by the function. I have other functions which can...

MZ-Tools Find and Replace carriage returns (new lines)

by Jonathan Halder | Oct 13, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding

Today I was pulling in some SQL code from SQL Studio I wanted to put into a string and run from a VBA routine to update some views on the production database. Because I use MZ Tools, I chose to use the find and replace function along with regular expressions to pick...

Building Smarter Dropdowns in Access with Section Headers and De-Duping

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 29, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access VBA Coding

Over the weekend I was working on a query for a drop down list for items on a PO. The list had 2 sections: Job Estimated Items Vendor Items Each section would show up in different circumstances with different items, but usually they show up together. Each section had...

A random set of today’s interesting tasks

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 26, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Queries, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding

This is a little different than my usual email, but just decided to decompress from what I was working on today before heading into the weekend. I worked on a couple interesting things today: A Launcher app using a class object to authenticate and connect to a...

A short foray into TDD and AI to help with a production Access database update

by Jonathan Halder | Sep 24, 2025 | Blogging, MS Access, MS Access Forms, MS Access Reports, MS Access Tables, MS Access VBA Coding, TDD, Versioning

Today’s adventure is using CoPilot ChatGPT-5 to create a test and code based on a production database requirement. I’m using RubberDuckVBA to do unit testing. My initial prompt to start the conversation was: I am wanting to get help with creating tests for...
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