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Shipment Tracking Userform for batch processing

In my previous post Shipment Tracking Add-In for Excel I introduced an add-in UDF for tracking package shipments from UPS, DHL and FedEx. A few more caveats about that function:

  • It appears to only work for domestic (U.S.) shipments.
  • It does work for FedEx tracking numbers, but only the 12-digit version. There is a 22-digit version of the tracking number which you need to pass to the function directly as an argument (not as a cell reference).

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Forget about it!

After much deliberation, I've decided to stop working on the Excel add-in I was creating to export Contacts, Tasks and Appointments to Excel. I haven't been spending enough time working on it, and rather than continuing to procrastinate, I've decided to just release the source code and let others pick up the development.

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Make your Office add-in version-independent

If you are working on code for any Office application, you might need to reference an object library for another Office application. I've been working on code for a new add-in for Excel, and needed to write code that would reference the appropriate object library, depending on the version of Office installed on someone's computer. I want it to be version-independent, so it loads no matter which version of Office (2000-2007) is installed on the end user's computer.

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